Graduate Papers/Theses
Submissions from 2020
How Can Catholic Youth Programs Improve the Youth’s Connection To the Mass?, Elizabeth Cook
Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall: A Glimpse Into the Theme of Righteousness Through the Anthropology, Theology, and Spirituality of the Psalms, Elizabeth Cook
Introducing Queer Theology, Cole Epping
Taking Care of the Forgotten: A Pastoral Response to the Hospice Care Professional, Constance Friebohle
A Global Church in the Local Parish: Fostering Intercultural Competency for Indonesian Catholic Ministry in the United States, Janice Kristanti
Seeking a New Paradigm for Youth Ministry of Waegwan Abbey, South Korea, Cyprian Ji-Eung Ryu
The Catholic Church and the Turn of the 20th Century: An Anthropology of Human Flourishing and a Church for Peace, Maria Siebels
The Wounded Body of Christ: Social Trauma in Pastoral Care, Kelsi Watters
Submissions from 2019
A Non-Dualistic Reading of Body and Soul in the Gospel of Matthew: Focusing on Matthew 10:39 in the Context of Discipleship, Alexander Blechle
Submissions from 2018
Catholic Social Teaching and the Christian Responsibility to the Poor, Rose Aspholm
Not Quite Calvinist: Cyril Lucaris a Reconsideration of His Life and Beliefs, Stephanie Falkowski
Life or Death and Other False Dichotomies: A Theology of Hospice, Kayla Stock
Submissions from 2017
On Dionysian Theological Methodology, Joseph Arrendale
The Transcendence of the Apprehension of Beauty, Mary Abigail Coleman
The Paradox of Remarkable/Unremarkable Julian of Norwich, John P. Fitzgibbons
Agape Unbound in Silence and Deep River, Elizabeth Cameron Galbraith
Formed for Diverse Communion: Toward Developing An Ecumenical Formation Process for New Members of Holy Wisdom Monastery’s Sunday Assembly, Rosy Kandathil OSB
A Garden Enclosed, A Fountain Sealed Up: Paradoxical and Generative Metaphors of Enclosure in Medieval Female Anchoritism, Cody Maynus Obl.S.B.
The Gospel of Mark, Nancy McCabe
A Theological Retrieval of Communal Parenting as a Moral Response to Baby Stealing and Childlessness in Nigeria, Henry U. Omeike
Do This, in Memory of Me!, Joseph Qiu-Lin Zhang
Submissions from 2016
A Church Built on Charity: Augustine's Ecclesiology, Michael J. Clinger Jr
A Story of Identity in the Christian East, Manya Gustafson
Jude's Enochian Apocalypse, Lucian López OSB
Matthew's Least Brothers and It's Application in the Catholic Church, Runbao Zhang
Submissions from 2015
Illuminating Christ, Jessie Bazan
My Brother's a Jerk and Dad's Gonna Spank Him: Roles and Relations in Obadiah, Aletta Stumo
Submissions from 2014
Christology, Theology, & Evolution in Celia Deane-Drummond's Christ and Evolution, Trevor Beach SJ
Joy as Illumination: Participation in God's Life-giving Trinitarian Love, Trevor Beach SJ
Consideration of the Church's Identity and Mission, Predicated on the Church Be-ing 'Ligamen' (Bond), C. A. Chase
Observations on the Performative Force of the Qyama and the Ihidaye, and its Pertinancy Today, C. A. Chase
Christ, the Meeting Point of Sacramental and Trinitarian Theology, Nathan Peter Chase
The Christological Remnants within Eucharistic Prayers, Nathan Peter Chase
With Eyes That See: The Role of Spiritual Vision in the Ascent of Nyssen Noetic Theology, Benjamin Rush
St. John of the Cross and the Denudation of the Soul, Wesley Sutermeister
Submissions from 2013
A History and Analysis of the Missel Romain pour les Diocese du Zaire, Nathan Peter Chase
The Development of the Epiclesis: Alexandrian or Syrian?, Nathan Peter Chase
Submissions from 2011
Short-Term Solution, Long-Term Problem: The Rite of Sunday Celebrations in the Absence of a Priest and its Use in the United States of America, Christopher Angel
Welcome (Back): The Use of Initiatory Elements in the Reconciliation of Heretics to the Early Church, Christopher Angel
The Gospel of Matthew: The Temple Cleansing in 21:12-17, Kasey Devine
The "Ladder" of the Lord's Plagues, Kasey DeVine
Submissions from 2010
St. John Chrysostom and His Message of Social Justice Today, Joel Cassady
Trinitarian Christology: The Grammar of The Christian Faith and the Foundation for a Theology of Religious Pluralism, Eric Christensen
Entering into the Profound Mystery: Yves Congar’s Via Media on the Salvation of People of Non-Christian Religions, Elizabeth M. Cunneen
Submissions from 2009
Ego Eimi Formula and a Sense of Continuity in John’s Gospel Chapter Sixth (Jn 6: v.20, vss.35-58), John Changjin Bai
Jesus the Christ as a Jun-Zi in Confucian Perspectives, John Changjin Bai
An Exegesis of 1 Corinthians 12:31 - 13:1-3, Gregory Congote OSB
Gregory Palamas and Hesychasm, Gregory Congote OSB
Modern Usury: The Moral Challenge of Credit Cards in Light of Catholic Teaching and Practice in the Past and the Present, David R. Smoker
Submissions from 2008
Community in the Theology of Søren Aabye Kierkegaard, Nicholas Coffman
Jean-Luc Marion’s Theology of Eucharistic Presence, Nicholas Coffman
Proclaiming the Truth of Beauty, Larry Fraher
Augustine of Hippo and Elizabeth de la Trinite: A Conversation across the Centuries, Vernon W. Goodin
"Who Do You Say That I Am?" The Role of Story in Christology, Vernon W. Goodin
Sufficere, “It Is Enough”: Avarice vs. Simplicity and Detachment in the Rule of Saint Benedict, Arlen M. Hanson
Stories in Stained Glass: An Analysis of the Stained-Glass Windows at Saint Norbert Abbey in De Pere, Wisconsin, Timothy A. Johnston
Wittgenstein and Worship: Investigations of Liturgical Language-Games and Their Formative Role in Christian Identity, Michelle Kathleen Weber
Submissions from 2007
Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Prophet & Martyr, Fr. Michael Calhoun OSB
Saint Basil: Monastic Reformer, Fr. Michael Calhoun OSB
Looking at Conflict Diamonds Through the Lens of Catholic Social Teaching, Heather Cherpelis
“Allegorical Typologies” of the Eucharist: An Analysis of Some Eastern Liturgical Commentaries, Nathaniel G. Costa
“For All the Saints”: A Feast for All People and All Time, Nathaniel G. Costa
Eternal Hope: The Story of Sr. Mary Luke Tobin and Other Women who Participated in Vatican Council II, Megan S. Enninga
Vulgar and Ascetic Christians: the Myth of a Higher Spirituality The rhetoric of monastic profession as a second baptism, August L. Gothman
Active Participation and the Song of the Assembly, William Griffiths
Transforming both the gifts and the people: Eucharistic presence, William Griffiths
“You Can Become All Flame”: Do the Desert Fathers Have Anything to Say to Us Today?, Arlen M. Hanson
Toward a Domestic Ecclesiology: The "Domestic Church" Finds Articulation in Pope John Paul II's "Theology of the Body", Craig James St. Clair
Celebrating the Communion Rite, Jay Stimac
Karl Rahner: On Grace and Salvation, Nicole Streit
One Body, One Spirit, One Priesthood; Many Members, Many Charisms, Many Ministries: Reflections Anglican and Catholic, Cody C. Unterseher
Arianism, Athanasius, and the Effect on Trinitarian Thought, Andy Witchger
How the Parish and School of St. Agnes Creates Vocations, Andy Witchger
Submissions from 2006
How Paul and the Jerusalem Council Might Speak to Division in the Twenty-First Century Church, Mary Birmingham
How Paul and the Jerusalem Council Might Speak to Division in the Twenty-First Century Church, Mary Birmingham
Becoming One Spirit: Origen and Evagrius Ponticus on Prayer, Hilary Case OSB
Syncletica: Urban Ascetic and Desert Mother, Susan Dreyer OSB
The Education of Heloise in Twelfth-Century France, Susan Dreyer OSB
A Woman of the Reformation, Megan S. Enninga
A Key and Classic Text: Ephesians 5:21-33, Katinka Nadine Ellen Evers
Concealing to Reveal: Modesty in Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body, Katinka Nadine Ellen Evers
Sex in the City of God, Diana Macalintal
The Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Ecclesial Discipleship and Redemption, Diane Draxler Pederson
The Spiritual Potential of Poetry, Carl Schlueter
Complicating the Poor Widow’s Gift: Exegesis on Mk. 12:41-44, Timothy Traynor
"We Should Glory in the Cross:" The Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross and its Contemporary Liturgical Significance, Cody C. Unterseher
Submissions from 2005
Hermeneutics and Liturgical Space: Interpreting the Domus Ecclesiae - Domus Dei, Gregory Reed Beath
Eros: Human and Divine, Denae M. Fielder
And the Question Became Flesh: Jesus the Catechist in the Gospel of John, Diana Macalintal
Hesychast Prayer: Attending the Cosmic Banquet of the Heart, Tamara Ann Moore
A Study in Spiritual Lineage: The "Influence and Noninfluence" of Pseudo-Dionysius on The Cloud of Unknowing, David M. Odorisio
The Cistercian Spirit in Stone, David M. Odorisio
Architectural Reforms of Eucharistic Reservation, Diane Draxler Pederson
The Relation of Music and Theology in Bach's St. John Passion, Anne Phillips
We Sing of the Church, Anne Phillips
Sola Scriptura and Episcopal Succession: The Apostolicity Crises of the Sixteenth Century, Jakob Karl Rinderknecht
Philo- Bridge Between the Testaments, Val Jean E. Swanson
GospelDharma: The Seven-fold Sacrament of Generous Interbeing, Paul Joseph Thoemke OblSB