School of Theology and Seminary Graduate Papers/Theses
Submissions from 1983
(Graduate Paper) Can the Mystical Prayer of St. Teresa of Avila Be Reconciled with Liturgical Prayer?, Jean M. Ersfeld SSND
(Graduate Paper) John of the Cross: A Study in Biblical Interpretation, Joan E. Farstad
(Graduate Paper) The Second and Third Antitheses of Matthew's Sermon on the Mount, Sheila E. Flynn SSMN
(Graduate Paper) The Spirit of Gift: Paul's Description of the Work of the Spirit in I Corinthians 12:4-11, Sheila E. Flynn SSMN
(Graduate Paper) Merton's Journey from "Seeds" to "New Seeds", Ruth Fox OSB
(Graduate Paper) Two Approaches to Divorce and Remarriage in the Catholic Church: Methodologies of Richard A. McCormick and Charles E. Curran, Ruth Fox OSB
(Graduate Paper) That We May Be Holy as You Are Holy: The Eucharistic Prayers for Masses of Reconciliation and the Spirituality They Propose, Susan Hames CSJ
(Master's Thesis) Ambiguity in Glass: A History of the North Wall Window in the Abbey Church of St. John the Baptist, Collegeville, Minnesota, Susan Karen Hedahl
(Graduate Paper) Johann Sebastian Bach: Liturgical Musician, Carol Marie Hemish SSND
(Graduate Paper) A Study of John 11:21-27, Christine Hilliard CSJ
(Graduate Paper) An Investigation of the Origins of Sunday Observance in the First Centuries of the Christian Church, Robert D. Hofstad
(Graduate Paper) Lutherans in the United States 1900-1982: The Evolution of a Lutheran Eucharistic Prayer, Robert D. Hofstad
(Graduate Paper) The Eucharist as Sacrifice: A Reconsideration, Robert D. Hofstad
(Master's Thesis) The Affective and Social Nature of Biblical Faith: A Process/Relational Reclamation, Gary Jarvis CPPS
(Graduate Paper) The Sacrament of Penance as Reconciliation with the Church, Anne Jeffords OP
(Graduate Paper) Ministry: Calling Forth Spiritual Gifts: An Exegetical Approach, Jeffrey J. Kaster
(Graduate Paper) Exegesis of Amos 2:6-16: With Introductory Comments on Amos 1, 2, Tim Kikkert
(Graduate Paper) John Henry Newman and Pastoral Liturgy, Francis P. Kilcoyne
(Graduate Paper) A Study of Ritual Action in Christian Worship with Special Reference to the Actions in the "Holy Communion" of the Lutheran Book of Worship, Paul H. Knutson
(Graduate Paper) Lutheran Worship Resources for Use with the Lutheran Book of Worship: A Selected and Annotated Bibliography, Paul H. Knutson
(Graduate Paper) Hope upon Hope: Martyrdom in the Early Church and in Our Day, Judith Kramer OSB
(Graduate Paper) Zebedee's Son in Spain, Judith Kramer OSB
(Graduate Paper) Biblical Imagery of Early Ordination Prayers and Contemporary Biblical Studies of Priesthood, Norita Lanners OSB
(Graduate Paper) Liturgical Music a la Gueranger or Gelineau, Norita Lanners OSB
(Graduate Paper) Rite of Penance: History, Catechesis, Celebration, Norita Lanners OSB
(Graduate Paper) Le Corbusier's Chapel at Ronchamp: Notre Dame du Haut, Laura Lincoln
(Graduate Paper) Religious Education Towards an Attitude of Ecumenism: A Project, Laura Lincoln
(Graduate Paper) Jesus and Zacchaeus: An Exegetical Study, Diane Lyons
(Graduate Paper) The Just War Theory: An Historical Survey, Dennis A. Meier
(Graduate Paper) The Gift of Prophecy for the Upbuilding of the Church, Christine A. Methe SSJ
(Graduate Paper) Youth Ministry: An Important Ministry for the Life of the Parish, Christine A. Methe SSJ
(Graduate Paper) The Limitations of Science as a Means of Achieving Human Self-Transcendence, Margaret Mary Moore
(Graduate Paper) The Revised Rite of Episcopal Ordination: An Examination of Its Theology and Spirituality, Annette Moran CSJ
(Graduate Paper) The Virgin Mary in an Ecumenical Creed, Annette Moran CSJ
(Graduate Paper) Saving One's Life by Losing It: The Context of Challenge and Response in Modern Interpretation of a Proverb, Christopher J. Murphy
(Graduate Paper) Communicating Religiously to a Changed U.S. Church, M. Corine Murray PBVM
(Graduate Paper) Francis de Sales and Twentieth Century American Bishops, Frances Nosbisch OSF
(Graduate Paper) The Absence of the Eucharistic Words in John's Account of the Last Supper: An Exegetical-Historical Study, Keith W. Perleberg
(Graduate Paper) The Anointing of Jesus in the Four Gospels, Thomas Schutz
(Graduate Paper) The Development of the Makarism and Its Influence on Mt. 5:3-10, Thomas N. Schutz
(Graduate Paper) Effects of Pugin's Pointed Architecture on English Liturgy and on American Church Building, Sandra Schweitzer OSF
(Graduate Paper) A Study on the Relationship between Time and Worship, Andrew P. Sleeman OSB
(Graduate Paper) The Implications of Right Brain Research for Educational Practice, Andrew P. Sleeman OSB
(Graduate Paper) Nineteenth Century Russian Spirituality, William R. Warner
(Graduate Paper) Monsignor Martin B. Hellriegel's Contributions to the Liturgical Movement Revival, Gerry White
(Graduate Paper) A Pastoral Presentation of the Historical and Modern Models of Penance, Diann Wimmer
(Graduate Paper) Liturgy and Society: The Life and Work of Gabriel Hebert, SSM, Diann Wimmer
Submissions from 1982
(Graduate Paper) Primitive Myth: Its Structure and Function and Implications for Christian Religious Meaning, Mary Ellen Backes OSU
(Graduate Paper) The Story of the RCIA, Mary Ellen Backes OSU
(Graduate Paper) World Hunger and Social Justice, Mary Ellen Backes OSU
(Graduate Paper) Psalm 2: An Exegetical Study, Rita Birzer OP
(Graduate Paper) Christian Initiation: The Reformation Period, Roger W. Bruns
(Graduate Paper) The Salvation of Israel: Romans 11:25-36, Shawn Carruth OSB
(Graduate Paper) Heavenly Models for Today, Yesterday or Tomorrow? Models of Holiness in the Revised Calendar of the Roman Rite, Margaret Conboy SSJ
(Graduate Paper) Spirituality Implicit in the Marian Solemnities, Mary Katherine Doyle SM
(Graduate Paper) The Influence of the Rule of Augustine on Jan Van Ruusbroec's The Seven Enclosures, Russell W. Dumke
(Graduate Paper) Focused on the Kingdom: Matthew 6:1-18, Lois Erpelding OSF
(Graduate Paper) The Development of the Concept of Political Involvement as Traced through Major Church Documents since the Second Vatican Council, Jean M. Ersfeld SSND
(Graduate Paper) The "Process" of Liturgical Life in the Church: A Consideration of Christian Becoming in Process Categories, David W. Fagerberg
(Graduate Paper) Liturgy as the Vehicle Par Excellence for Scriptural Transmission: A Study of Pius Parsch, Joan E. Farstad
(Graduate Paper) The Old Testament Sabbath: An Historical Development, Joan E. Farstad
(Graduate Paper) The Rite of the Consecration of Virgins from the Sixth to the Sixteenth Century, Ruth Fox OSB
(Graduate Paper) An Analogous Examination of Augustine's and John Donne's Concepts of Memory, Kay Gaul OSF
(Graduate Paper) Psalm 18: An Exegetical Study, Kay Gaul OSF
(Graduate Paper) Sacred Dance in Community Rituals and Christian Religious Education, Caroline Golden OSF
(Graduate Paper) The Homeless Mentally Ill: A Social Justice Issue, Caroline Golden OSF
(Graduate Paper) The Spirituality Implicit in Eucharistic Prayers II, III, and IV, Carol Marie Hemish SSND
(Graduate Paper) The Elderly in America: A Social Justice Concern, Christine Hilliard CSJ
(Graduate Paper) The Anthropology of the Medieval Mystic Jan van Ruusbroec, Robert C. House
(Graduate Paper) Foretaste of the Feast to Come, Maxwell E. Johnson
(Graduate Paper) The Meaning of Righteousness in the Sermon on the Mount: An Exegetical Approach, Jeffrey J. Kaster
(Graduate Paper) Celibate Sexuality: A Way of "Being-In" and Relating to the World Today, Hilda Keller OSB
(Graduate Paper) Latin American Liberation Christology: The Way to the Father in an Unredeemed World, Ann Kilkelly SSND
(Graduate Paper) Laying on of Hands, Election, and Appointment in the Ordinations of the Early Church, Paul H. Knutson
(Graduate Paper) The Search for Christian Maturity Retreat Program: A Curriculum Evaluation, Laura Lincoln
(Graduate Paper) The Meaning of [zoe] ([aionios]) in the Greek Fourth Gospel in Light of Its Syncretic Milieu, Benedict Neale Lundgren OSB
(Graduate Paper) Analysis of the Biblical, Patristic and Liturgical Concept of Anamnesis, John Gerard McCallion OCSO
(Graduate Paper) Individuation in the West Concerning Pneumatology, Dennis A. Meier
(Graduate Paper) Ministry for the Divorced and Remarried Catholics, Dennis A. Meier
(Graduate Paper) Education for Justice in the Energy Crisis, Steve Miller
(Graduate Paper) Spirituality Implicit in the Jewish Festivals, Margaret Mary Moore
(Graduate Paper) The Gospel According to Mark: A Course in Religious Education for Adults, Doug Mullin
(Master's Thesis) Development of the Ritualized Exorcisms in the Catechumenate: A Survey from the First Through the Fourth Centuries, Bede James Parry OSB
(Graduate Paper) A Hermeneutic of Tolerance, Otto Rushe Piechowski
(Graduate Paper) Property and Prophecy, Otto Rushe Piechowski
(Graduate Paper) The Kingship of Yahweh in 1 Samuel 8: Did Samuel Really Oppose the Monarchy on This Basis?, Charles A. Romportl
(Graduate Paper) The Relationship Between Catechesis and Religious Education, Charles A. Romportl
(Graduate Paper) Upbuilding and Encouragement and Consolation: Congregational Prophecy in First Corinthians, Charles A. Romportl
(Graduate Paper) The Implicit Spirituality in Place and in the Dedication of Space, Sandra Schweitzer OSF
(Graduate Paper) Land Ownership and Land Use, Dennis Skonseng
(Graduate Paper) The Serious Mission of Proclaiming the Kingdom (Mt. 8:19-22; 9:37-38; 10:5-16; 11:20-24 // Lk. 9:57-10:15), Dennis Skonseng
(Graduate Paper) Spirituality Implicit in the Rite of Christian Reconciliation, Anita Valdez OSB
Submissions from 1981
(Graduate Paper) Understanding the Cognitive Theory of Thomas Aquinas and its Influence on his Scriptural Interpretation, Leo Batenhorst OSB
(Graduate Paper) Confirmation -- Towards a Theological Consensus: An Analysis of the Recent Literature, Richard W. Burton
(Graduate Paper) Q and the Gospel of Thomas: Two Early Christian Sayings Collections, Shawn Carruth OSB
(Graduate Paper) Understanding Patristic Interpretation of Scripture in Thomas Aquinas' "Catena Aurea", Shawn Carruth OSB
(Graduate Paper) A Study of the Cilicium: Its Origin and Its Structural Position and Meaning in Eastern and Western Sources, Keith J. DeRouen
(Graduate Paper) A Study of the Four Accounts of Peter's Denials, Keith J. DeRouen
(Graduate Paper) The Preparation of the Gifts in the Roman Liturgy, Keith J. DeRouen
(Graduate Paper) Beyond the Bread, William H. Dorn Jr.