School of Theology and Seminary Graduate Papers/Theses
Submissions from 1998
(Graduate Paper) The Story of Martha and Mary in Luke 10:38-42, Rich Hamsa
(Graduate Paper) Of Universal Importance: The Revised Eucharistic Liturgy of Our Lady of Guadalupe for the Roman Catholic Dioceses of the United States of America, Clara Dina Hinojosa
(Graduate Paper) Toward a Model of Mystagogical Catechesis with Parents of Newly Baptized Infants, Clara Dina Hinojosa
(Graduate Paper) Augustine on Environment: Abiding in the Tranquility of Order, Edward Horski
(Graduate Paper) Grounded in Love: An Investigation of the Fundamental Ignatian Teaching on Discernment within the Tradition of Askesis, Edward Horski
(Graduate Paper) The Ecclesial Implications of Interchurch Marriage and the Question of Eucharistic Hospitality, Carolyn Gardner Hunt
(Graduate Paper) The Liberation Christologies of Leonardo Boff, Jon Sobrino, et al.: An Introductory Study of Motive, Method and Content, James E. Kilzer OSB
(Graduate Paper) A Critique of the Theological and Ritual Strengths and Weaknesses of the Marriage Rite in the Lutheran Book of Worship: The Twentieth Century Lutheran Tradition of North America, Galen C. Knutson
(Graduate Paper) Nonmedical Healing: A Supplement and A Possible Response to Pastoral Care of the Sick, Wilfredo Angelo S. Legal OSB
(Graduate Paper) The Feast of the Stigmata of St. Francis of Assisi: An Historical, Textual and Theological Analysis of the Feast in Light of the Paschal Mystery, David Liedl TOR
(Graduate Paper) The Liturgical Environment as Formative of the People of God: A Comparative Study of the Irish and US Documents on the Arrangement of Sacred Space, Andrew McKenzie
(Graduate Paper) On the Feast of the Transfiguration, John M. Phillips
(Graduate Paper) Kurisumala Ashram, Ephrem Poppish OCSO
(Graduate Paper) Celebrating the Paschal Triduum in the Absence of a Presbyter, Michael R. Prendergast
(Graduate Paper) The History and Theology of the Liturgy of the Hours: Implications for the Celebration of Communal Prayer in Cathedral, Parish, and Domestic Church, Michael R. Prendergast
(Master's Thesis) The Word Became Flesh: The Inseparable Divinity and Humanity of Jesus in the Gospel of John, Chad Quaintance
(Master's Thesis) Globalization, Personality Development and Theology: An Integral Approach, Brian Robinette
(Graduate Paper) Feast of the Chair of Peter, Apostle, Elaine Schroeder OSB
(Graduate Paper) The Psalms Formational Tools for Monastics, Elaine Schroeder OSB
(Graduate Paper) The Theme of the Imitation of Christ in Paul's Letter to the Philippians, Dennis Stein
(Graduate Paper) Our Lady of Guadalupe: History, Liturgical Development and Theological Significance, Marc Stockert
(Graduate Paper) Sources of Roman Monophonic Chant: From Pagan and Jewish Antiquity to Gregory the Great, Marc Stockert
(Graduate Paper) Reading into Wisdom: The Art of Reading according to Hugh of St. Victor, Thomas Vaughn
(Graduate Paper) Hildegard, Heloise and the Rule of Benedict: An Analysis of Similarities and Differences, Isaac Yang OSB
(Graduate Paper) Anglican Worship and the Book of Common Prayer (1549 and 1552), Anthony Shun Yao
(Graduate Paper) The Presentation of the Lord, Anthony Shun Yao
(Graduate Paper) Inculturation: A Perspective of Chinese Culture, Joseph Qiu-Lin Zhang
Submissions from 1997
(Graduate Paper) Looking to Tradition: Feminist Christology and Julian of Norwich, Laura E. Blabac
(Graduate Paper) The Challenge of Faith: A Look at the Gospel of Mark 5:21-43, Laura E. Blabac
(Graduate Paper) St. Olav of Norway: His Life, His Cult, His Liturgy, Todd H. Charles
(Graduate Paper) The Evolutionary Development of the Gospels in the Roman Lectionary as Reflected in Comes Romanus Wirziburgensis, Matthew P. Clark
(Graduate Paper) Making Sense of Jesus: The Quest of Christian Feminists to Find the Meaning and Significance of Jesus the Christ, Catherine Connors-Nelson
(Graduate Paper) The Jesus Prayer, Catherine Connors-Nelson
(Graduate Paper) Perfection as a Virtue according to St. Gregory of Nyssa, Jude Gerardo De Villa OSB
(Graduate Paper) Symbol in Biblical Typology, Jude Gerardo De Villa OSB
(Graduate Paper) Physicalism and Personalism: Irreconcilable Tensions? An Exploration of John Paul II's "Theology of the Body" and the Generativity Debate in Contemporary Catholic Social Ethics, Mariette E. Dobrowolski
(Graduate Paper) Visigothic Monastic Initiation in Seven-Century Spain: An Introduction to the Sources and Liturgy, Daniel Kevin Gullo
(Graduate Paper) Brides of Christ: A Study of Why Women Entered Monasteries in the Middle Ages and Why They Stayed, Karyn Haider OSB
(Graduate Paper) Lectio Divina: The Evolution of an Ancient Monastic Practice, Karyn Haider OSB
(Graduate Paper) A Commentary on John 18:28-19:16 and the Paradox of the Cross, Peter Hebert
(Graduate Paper) A Commentary on the Trial of Jesus before Pilate: Mark 15:1-15, Peter Hebert
(Graduate Paper) Common Life: An Essential Element of Monastic Transformation, Jennifer Mechtild Horner OSB
(Graduate Paper) Vessels of the Word, Jennifer Mechtild Horner OSB
(Graduate Paper) Ministry to the Sick in the Episcopal Church, Carolyn Gardner Hunt
(Master's Thesis) Christ: The New Eve, Daniel A.H. Idzikowski
(Graduate Paper) A Study of the Third Eucharistic Prayer of the New Roman Rite, Julie Kavanagh
(Graduate Paper) The Glenstal Liturgical Congresses: 1954-1975, Julie Kavanagh
(Graduate Paper) The Feast of Saint Mary Magdalene, Galen C. Knutson
(Graduate Paper) Filipino Lenten Penances and Disciplines: Historical, Theological and Liturgical Reconsideration, Wilfredo Angelo S. Legal OSB
(Master's Thesis) War Is Not Christian: The Catholic Church Should Abandon the Just War Theory, Michael Lopez-Kaley
(Graduate Paper) A Comparison of Method and Interpretation in Ptolemy's Letter to Flora and De Principiis by Origen and the Relation of These to Emerging Doctrine, Susan M. Magan
(Graduate Paper) Deification in Communion: A Study of the Essence-Persons-Energies Synthesis of Gregory Palamas, Susan M. Magan
(Graduate Paper) The Feast of the Chair of St. Peter, Angelo Mugagga Mselle OSB
(Graduate Paper) The Interaction of Clinical, Traditional, and Spiritual Healing, Angelo Mugagga Mselle OSB
(Graduate Paper) Jacob's Struggle at the Jabbok: Genesis 32:23-33 (MT), Mark Nussberger
(Graduate Paper) "If today you hear his voice..." Intertexuality and Typology in Hebrews 3:7-4:11, Mark A. Nussberger
(Graduate Paper) Enchanting the Ears and Moving the Heart: Music in the Liturgy of the Hours, John Bede Pauley OSB
(Graduate Paper) The Roman Paterfamilias and the Rule of St. Benedict, John Bede Pauley OSB
(Graduate Paper) John Climacus on Spiritual Fatherhood and the True Self: A Meditation on "Salvation", Gregory Perron OSB
(Graduate Paper) Penthos, Then and Now: The Climate of Monastic Prayer?, Gregory Perron OSB
(Graduate Paper) Thomas Merton's Turn to the East, Rob Puchniak
(Graduate Paper) To Restore the First Image: A Reflection on the Spirituality of Origen, Rob Puchniak
(Graduate Paper) The Feast of the Annunciation: Its Origins, Liturgical Celebration, and Theology, Tamara L. Stasik
(Graduate Paper) The History of the Pontifical: Its Development from the Late Sixth Century to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century, Tamara L. Stasik
(Graduate Paper) Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus: History, Theology, and Liturgical Celebration, Jeanne Weber OSB
(Graduate Paper) The Church as the Body of Christ Gathered in the Celebration of the Eucharist, Jeanne Weber OSB
(Graduate Paper) The Twentieth Century Revision of the Sacrament of Confirmation in Light of the History of the Postbaptismal Rites in the Early Church, David K. Wood
(Graduate Paper) An Ignatian Response to Issues in Contemporary Spirituality, Kevin J. Zenner
(Graduate Paper) Jesuit Spirituality as a Response to Martin Luther's Criticism of Monasticism, Kevin J. Zenner
(Graduate Paper) Immaculate Conception of Mary: History and Theology, Matthew X. Zhen
(Graduate Paper) The Chinese Rites Controversy, Matthew X. Zhen
Submissions from 1996
(Graduate Paper) Beauty as Revelation and Doxology: A Theology of Aesthetics, Adam Begnaud OSB
(Graduate Paper) The Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary, Christopher D.A. Bowen
(Graduate Paper) Some Comments on the Story of Pelagia of Antioch, Kathleen Brady
(Graduate Paper) Leonardo Boff's "Jesus Christ Liberator": The Hermeneutic Dimension of Liberation Christology, Mark E. Brenneman
(Graduate Paper) Toward a Teologia de Conjunto: Robert S. Goizueta and the Theological Retrieval of Hispanic Experience, Mark E. Brenneman
(Graduate Paper) Communal and Social Dimensions of Sin and Reconciliation in the Revised Rite of Penance, Matthew P. Clark
(Graduate Paper) Romantic Perception: A Kierkegaardian Re-formation of the Appearances via Existential Arrest Towards Conscious Imaginative Relation, Christoph Franz Dobrowolski
(Graduate Paper) A Traditional Rite of Passage, Virginia Downey OLVM
(Graduate Paper) Our Lady of Victory and Our Lady of Guadalupe: Contrasting Images?, Virginia Downey OLVM
(Master's Thesis) Faith in Reason or Faith in God? Kierkegaard, the Enlightenment, and Presuppositions, Kevin W. Ferdinandt
(Graduate Paper) A Hymn to Christ: Philippians 2.6-11 and the Role of Hymns in Early Christology, David Gormong
(Graduate Paper) A Brief Examination of a Sumero-Akkadian and Hebraic Lament Psalm, Douglas H. Greenlee
(Graduate Paper) Assisting the Least Advantaged in Society: The Poverty-Welfare Problem, Douglas H. Greenlee
(Graduate Paper) Titles in the New Testament, Gregory Hamernik
(Graduate Paper) Desde El Reverso De La Historia (from the underside of history): Liberation Theology and the Vatican, Michael David Hutchison Newton
(Graduate Paper) Feminist Theology and the Marian Tradition: An Account of Oppression, a Call for Reform, Nancy Elizabeth Johnson
(Graduate Paper) The Image of God: The Man Jesus Christ, Trinitarian Communion and Persons in Relation, Nancy Elizabeth Johnson
(Graduate Paper) The Eucharistic Prayers for Masses with Children: A Comparative Analysis of Their Content, Structure and Theology, Sharon Kassing SL
(Graduate Paper) Giving Old Stones a Voice: Celtic Monasticism and Spirituality, Rosanne Keller
(Graduate Paper) Psalms: Scriptural Dialogues with God: Why the Psalms are so Important to Monasticism, Rosanne Keller
(Graduate Paper) Ecumenical Implications of the Immaculate Conception, Kevin D. Kennedy
(Graduate Paper) Wedding at Cana, Kevin D. Kennedy
(Graduate Paper) Toward an Ecclesial Spirituality: Grounding Christian Mission in the Nature of Christian Being through the Communion Ecclesiology of Vatican II, James E. Kilzer OSB
(Graduate Paper) A History of Stanbrook 1623-1953: Its Evolution through Times of Revolution, Valerie J. Kolarik
(Graduate Paper) Our Hidden Gardens: A History of the Strict Enclosure of Medieval Nuns, Valerie J. Kolarik
(Graduate Paper) Being as Communion: Bonhoeffer's Early Anthropology, Paul B. Kramschuster
(Graduate Paper) Narrative Structure and Description: Frei's Biblical Hermeneutic, Paul B. Kramschuster
(Graduate Paper) Roman Eucharistic Prayer IV: Evolution, Structure, and Theology, Christian McConnell
(Graduate Paper) The Beginnings of the Use of Ashes in Christian Penance, Christian McConnell