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Ph.D. Defenses 2023-2024

Domenik Ackerman - Prayer and Memory: What Christian Theology Can Learn from Jewish Practice, Prof. Dr. Ruth Langer, dissertation director

Robert Elliot - The Imago Trinitatis: Towards an Analogy of Interpersonal Mind, Prof. Jeremy Wilkins, dissertation director

Dunstan Enzor, O.S.B. - The Law is a Shadow: The Anti-Marcionite Tradition of Reading Psalm 118, Prof. Brian Dunkle, S.J., dissertation director

Peter Fay - A Roman Catholic Account of the Flourishing and Virtuous Agency of People with Schizophrenia in the United States, Prof. Stephen J. Pope, dissertation director

Nicholas Hayes-Mota - Practicing the Common Good: Catholic Tradition, Community Organizing, and the Virtues of Democratic Politics, Prof. M. Cathleen Kaveny, dissertation director

Austin J. Foley Holmes - Political Theology in Origen of Alexandria, Prof. David G. Hunter and Prof. Samuel Fern谩ndez, dissertation co-directors

Robin Landrith - The Debt of Love in the Theology of Richard of St. Victor, Prof. Boyd Taylor Coolman, dissertation director

Nozomi (Sophia) Miura, R.S.C.J. - A Journey around the Comma Johanneum: Transmission History and Interpretation of 1 John 5:6-8, Prof. Pheme Perkins, dissertation director

Katie Mahowski Mylroie - Cultivating Insight through Comparing Cycles: How Comparison with the Hindu Kali Tradition Can Enrich the Christian Understanding, of Life, Death, and Resurrection, Prof. Catherine Cornille, dissertation director

Hilary Ogonna Nwainya - Addressing the Need for Recognition: A Fundamental and Constitutive Point of Departure for Catholic Social Ethics, Prof. James F. Keenan, S.J., dissertation director

Laurel Marshall Potter - 淨ue Esta Misa nos Haga So帽ar�: In(ter)culturaci贸n Lit煤rgica y la Recepci贸n Nuestramericana de Sacrosanctum Concilium, Prof. Carlos Mendoza-脕lvarez, O.P., dissertation director

Chanelle Robinson - Entangled Poetics: Womanist and Decolonial Expansions of the Imago Dei, Prof. Andrew Prevot, dissertation director

Dhinakaran Savariyar - A Theological Ethical Framework for Dalit Lifeworld: 楬ope in Justice� as Liberative Praxis in India, Prof. James F. Keenan, S.J., dissertation director

Byron Wratee - Howard Thurman Theological Anthropology: A Mystical Political Response to Anti-Black Violence, Prof. Andrew Prevot, dissertation director

Ph.D. Defenses 2022-2023

Sara-Bernard Hoverstad -听From Religious Cosmology to Environmental Praxis: Empowering Agency for Sustainable Social Change � Prof. Kristin Heyer, dissertation director

John Carter听-听The Communitarian Conscience: A Theological Response to the Legal Debates about Religious Freedom � Prof. Cathy Kaveny, dissertation director

Joseph (Joe) Collins -听The Love of Truth and The Truth of Love: Retrieving Saints Augustine and Thomas Aquinas on the Relationship of Understanding and Love � Prof. Frederick Lawrence, dissertation director

Robert (Zac) Karanovich听-听Conversion in a World of Violence: Toward a Theology of Conversion with Johann Baptist Metz, James Alison, and Thomas Merton � Prof. Brian Robinette, dissertation director

John Kern -听Charismatic Christ, Charismatic Church: The Development of the Gratia Gratis Data in Thomas Aquinas's Theology in Light of the Summa Halensis � Prof. Boyd Coolman, dissertation director

Lindsay Marcellus -听Perfecting Ecological Rationality: Acknowledging Sin and the Cardinal Virtue of Humility � Prof. James Keenan, dissertation director

Emma McDonald -听Forming Agents, Forming Families: Moral Agency in the Context of Procreation � Prof. Lisa Sowle Cahill, dissertation director

Bethany Slater -听Becoming Wholehearted: Constructing a Jewish Liturgical Asceticism � Prof. Ruth Langer, dissertation director

Stephen Surh -听Visibile Parlare: An Essay on Dante's Commedia � Prof. Boyd Coolman, dissertation director

Drew (Andrew) Gertner Belfield � Foundations of Scholastic Christology in the Summa Halensis � Prof. Boyd Coolman, dissertation director听

Jonathan Cahill � Emotions, Moral Formation, and Christian Politics: Rereading Karl Barth � Prof. Lisa Sowle Cahill, dissertation director

Eduardo Gonzales � Neighboring the Invisible: Liberation Theologies, the Exodus Narrative, and the Specter of Canaan � Prof. Roberto Goizueta, dissertation director听

Brian Himes � Max Scheler on Love and Human Dignity: The Wertkern as Resolving the Aporia of Dialogical and Metaphysical Personalism on the Knowledge of Persons � Prof. Frederick Lawrence, dissertation director听

Spencer听(Kyle) Johnson � Discernment at the Periphery: Race, Coloniality, And the Demonic � Prof. Andrew Prevot, dissertation director听

Jennifer Lamson-Scribner � Disorder and Distortion: A Theological Approach to Addiction � Prof. Stephen Pope, dissertation director听

Christopher McLaughlin � The Pneumatology of Marius Victorinus: a Rhetorical, Philosophical, and Theological Commentary On Adversus Arium III � Prof. Brian Dunkle, dissertation director

Xavier Montecel � Communion in Hope: Liturgy and Ethics in The Key of Virtue � Prof. Jim Keenan, dissertation director听

Michael VanZandt Collins � Climate Change, Virtue, and Moral Agency: An Essay in Muslim-Christian Comparative Theological Ethics � Prof. Catherine Cornille and Prof. Jim Keenan, co-directors

Andrew T. Vink � Ellacur铆a's Tripartite Salvation: A Historical-Soteriological Response to The Crisis of Neoliberalism � Prof. Andrew Prevot, dissertation director听

Nathan Wood-House � Toward an Anti-Racist Political Theology: Reading Johann Baptist Metz and James H. Cone against American Anti-Black Necropolitics � Prof. Andrew Prevot, dissertation director

Derek Brown � Decisions: Political Theology and the Challenges of Postmodernity � Prof. Andrew Prevot, dissertation director

Aimee Hein � History and Responsibility: An Ecumenical Response to Migration in the United States � Prof. Kristin Heyer, dissertation director听

Benjamin Hohman � Grace and Emergence: Towards an Ecological and Evolutionary Foundation for Theology听 � Prof. Frederick Lawrence, dissertation director听

Elyse Raby � Towards an Intercorporeal Body of Christ: A Study in Ecclesial Body Images � Prof. Richard Gaillardetz, dissertation director

Jonathan Bailes - Becoming Like God in Christ: Nicene Theology and Christian Virtue in Gregory of Nyssa � Prof. Khaled Anatolios, dissertation director

Kimberly Bauser McBrien - 湨remembering what the Savior had said�: Social Memory and the Sayings of Jesus Tradition � Prof. Pheme Perkins, dissertation director

Jinyong Choi - Analogy, Spirituality and the Beatific Enjoyment of God: Bonaventure and the Doctrine of Likeness � Prof. Emeritus Stephen Brown, dissertation director

Peter Folan, SJ - Matters of Interpretation: Biblical Methodology in the Lutheran-Catholic Dialogue on the Doctrine of Justification � Prof. Richard Gaillardetz, dissertation director

Hans Harmakaputra - The Community of Friends of God: Comparative Theology and the Construction of an Inclusive Theology of Saints � Prof. James Morris, dissertation director

Won-Jae Hur - Corporeality in Contemplation:听 A Comparative Study of Edith Stein and Tibetan Buddhist Lojong � Prof. John Makransky, dissertation director

Jaisy A. Joseph - Reimagining Catholicity: An Interstitial Perspective � Prof. Richard Gaillardetz, dissertation director

L茅ocadie Lushombo, it. - Imagining an Ethics of Political Participation For Women In Sub-Saharan Africa: A Sophialogical Hermeneutic � Prof. Lisa Sowle Cahill, dissertation director

Andrew Massena - Torah for Its own Sake: The Decalogue in Rabbinic and Patristic Exegesis � Prof. Ruth Langer, dissertation director

Ligita Ryli拧kyt臈, SJE - Cur Deus Cruciatus?: Lonergan Law of听 the Cross and the Transpositions of 淛ustice over Power� � Prof. Jeremy Wilkins, dissertation director

Annie Selak - Toward an Ecclesial Vision in the Shadow of Wounds � Prof. Nancy Pineda Madrid, dissertation director

Marcel Uwineza, S.J. � Reconciling Memories: A Theology from a Place of Wounds: No Authentic Theology with my Back Turned to Nyamata � Prof Emerita M. Shawn Copeland, dissertation director

Daniel Vos � Some of the Other Works of the Torah: Boundaries and Inheritance as Legal Metaphors in the Hebrew Bible and Hellenistic Jewish Literature � Prof. David Vanderhooft, dissertation director

Robert J. Brodrick听� Charismatic and Pastoral Power: A Foucauldian Analysis of the CDF Investigation of Leonardo Boff � Richard Gaillardetz

David Clint Burnett听� Psalm 110:1 In Confessional Material In听Corpus Paulinum: Cultural and Religious Context � Pheme Perkins

Ryan Duns听� Spiritual Exercises for a Secular Age? William Desmond Theological Achievement � Brian Robinette

Charles Thomas Fraatz听� Blessed Is the One Who Reads and Those Who Hear the Words of Prophecy: Rome and Revelation Use of Scripture � Pheme Perkins

David Kwon听� A Study of the Role of听Jus Post Bellum听in the 21st Century: Human Security and Political Reconciliation � Kenneth Himes, O.F.M.

Katherine Jackson-Meyer听� Tragic Dilemmas and Virtue A Christian Feminist View � Lisa Cahill

Samuel Keyes听� Here for Medicine, There for Delight: The Ecclesial Mysteries of the Victorine听Speculum听� Boyd Taylor Coolman

Joseph Mben听� Empowering Disempowered Working Women: A Gendered African Perspective on Christian Social Ethics � Lisa Sowle Cahill

Megan McCabe听� Sex, Power, and Violence on the College Campus: Rape Culture and Complicity in Evil � James Keenan, SJ

Ty Monroe听� The Development of Augustine's Early Soteriology � Boyd Taylor Coolman

Kate Mroz听� No Salvation Apart from Religious Others: Edward Schillebeeckx's Soteriology as a Resource for Understanding Christian Identity and Discipleship in a Religiously Pluralist World � Mary Ann Hinsdale

Teva Regule听� Identity, Formation, Transformation: The Liturgical Movement of the 20th Century and the Liturgical Reform Efforts of New Skete Monastery � John Baldovin, SJ

Jennifer Sanders听� The Trinitarian听Telos听of the听Summa theologiae: Thomas Application of the Aristotelian听Ordo Disciplinae to Sacra Doctrina听in light of his Augustinian Heritage � Dominic Doyle

Clifton Stringer听� Becoming One in the Paschal Mystery: Christ, Spirituality, and Theology in Hugh of St. Victor � Boyd Taylor Coolman

Veronica Tierney听� For Us and For Our Salvation: Revelation and Imitation in Cyril of Alexandria � Douglass Finn

Katherine Wrisley Shelby听� The听Vir Hierarchicus: St. Bonaventure's Theology of Grace � Stephen Brown

Michael Cagney听� 淭he Problem of Big Food and the Response of an Integrated Catholic Ecological Ethic�

Timothy J. Carey听� 淩emove the Harm, Lord of Men, and Give Healing�: Muslim and Catholic Responses to HIV and AIDS in Kenya�

Jessica Coblentz听� 淒epression Challenge to Theologies of Suffering and Salvation�

Nicholas P. DiSalvatore听� 淭he Notion of Faith in the Early Latin Theology of Bernard Lonergan�

James Daryn Henry听� 淭he Freedom of God: A Study in the Pneumatology of Robert Jenson�

Daniel P. Horan, OFM.听� 淚magining Planetarity: Toward a Postcolonial Franciscan Theology of Creation�

Joel B. Kemp听� 淎 Case for Identity: The Book of Ezekiel, Juridical Diction, and Judahite Identity�

Nathaniel N. L. Peters听� 淭he Trinitarian Dimensions of Cistercian Eucharistic Theology�

John R. Barker, OFM听� Disputed Temple: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Book of Haggai

Stephanie Corigliano听� Towards a Hermeneutic of Yoga in Modern Times: A Comparative Study of Practice and Detachment in Hinduism and Christianity

Maria Angela Socorro S. Cruz听� Prophets Likewise: An Exploration of the Prophetic Office of the Laity as an Expression of the听Sensus Fidelium

Marianne Tierney Fitzgerald听� Theology and Activism in Latin America: A Reflection on Jon Sobrino Christology of the Resurrection and Grassroots Organizations Protesting Gender-Based Violence

Nichole Flores听� Guadalupe in the Public Square: Religious Aesthetics and the Pursuit of Justice

Christopher D. Jones听� 淭he Midday Demon': A Moral, Theological, and Biopsychosocial Analysis of Acedia�

Monica Jalandoni Nalupta听� Filipino Fortitude

James O橲ullivan听� Development as Human Rights: An Examination of Catholic Social Teaching and the Right to Development

Cristina Richie听� Moving Environmental Bioethics into the 21st Century: Green Bioethics and the Common Good

Kate Ward听� Wealth, Poverty and Economic Inequality: A Christian Virtue Response

Stanislaus Subba Reddy Alla, 淐are and Access: Catholic and Hindu Approaches to Ethics in Healthcare�

Anthony P. Coleman, 淟actantius and the Doctrine of Providence�

Christopher R. Conway, 淟iberative Service: A Comparative Theological Reflection on Dalit Theology's Service and Swami Vivekananda's Seva�

Jeremy V. Cruz, 淪ocial Equality in Recent Catholic Social Thought: Toward an Ethic of Global Social Equality�

John P. Edwards, 淒eveloping a 砊heology in the Order of Discovery�: The Method and Contribution of James Alison�

Conor M. Kelly, 淪ervice And Justice, Peace and Solidarity: Theology And Ethics For Work And Leisure�

Nicole L. Reibe, 淧reaching Participation: The Theology Of Achard Of St. Victor�

Robert J. Rivera, 淎 Christology of Liberation in an Age of Globalization and Exclusion: The Contributions of Jon Sobrino and Edward Schillebeeckx�

Andrew B. Salzmann, 淭he Holy Spirit And The Life Of The Christian According To Hugh Of St. Victor:听Dator Et Donum,听Cordis Omne Bonum�

Brian Traska, 淧hilosophy as Faith Seeking Understanding An Interpretation of Bernard Lonergan 1972 Lectures on Philosophy of God and Systematic Theology�

Jennifer S. Wade, 淩esisting Violence through the Meditative Body: A Theological Anthropology of Transformational Anger in Judith Butler and听The Revelations of Divine Love�

Glenn Willis, 淒rive All Blames into One: Rhetorics of 'Self-Blame' and Refuge in Tibetan Buddhist听Lojong, Nietzsche, and the Desert Fathers�

Thomas F. Burke, 淪elf 揈mptying Love: Kenosis, Sacraments and the Church,� directed by Frederick Lawrence

Benjamin Durheim, 淐hrist Gift, Our Response: Martin Luther and Louis-Marie Chauvet on the Connection between Sacraments and Ethics,� directed by John Baldovin, S.J.

Katie Grimes, 淐hrist Divided: White Supremacy as a Corporate Vice in the Body of Christ,� directed by James Keenan, S.J.

Michael Jaycox, 淩ighteous Anger and Virtue Ethics: A Contemporary Reconstruction of Anger in Service to Justice,� directed by James Keenan, S.J.

Matthew Kruger, 淭he Freedom of the Mind for God: Reflexivity and Spiritual Exercises in Thomas Aquinas,� directed by Stephen Brown

Emma O橠onnell, 淭he Liturgical Transformation of Time: Memory and Eschatological Anticipation in Christian and Jewish Liturgy,� directed by John Baldovin, S.J.

Erik John Ranstrom, 淭he Unknown Body of Christ: Towards a Retrieval of the Early Panikkar Christology of Religions,� directed by Catherine Cornille

Katherine Richman, "Salvation in "Catholic Boston":听 Father Leonard Feeney and Saint Benedict Center, 1941- 1949" directed by Thomas Wangler

Autumn Alcott Ridenour, 淯nion With Christ for the Aging: A consideration of Aging and Death in the Theology of St. Augustine and Karl Barth,� directed by Lisa Sowle Cahill

Raymond Ward, 淐ollectives in Christian Ethics: A Study of Reinhold Niebuhr and Jacques Maritain,� directed by Lisa Sowle Cahill

Kevin Ahern, "Structures of Grace: Catholic Nongovernmental Organizations and the Mission of the Church," directed by David Hollenbach

Hoa Trung Dinh, SJ, "Theological Medical Ethics: A Virtue-base Approach," directed by Lisa Sowle Cahill

Walter Hannam, "The听Ineutabile听of Honorius Augustodunensis: A Study in the textures of early Twelfth-Century Augustinianisms," directed by Stephen Brown

Jill O'Brien, "Images of God, Roles of Humanity, and Ecological Ramifications: Hope and Realism in the Renewal of Creation," directed by Lisa Sowle Cahill

Steve Okey, "The Plural and Ambiguous Self: The Theological Anthropology of David Tracy," directed by Mary Ann Hinsdale, IHM

Jeremy Sabella, "The Politics of Original Sin: Reinhold Niebuhr's Christian Realism and its Cold War Realist," directed by Michael Himes

Rene Sanchez, "Agapic Solidarity: Practicing the Love Command in a Globalized Reality," directed by Roberto Goizueta