Recent PhD Graduates

• Keith Hulme Lane (2009)
  Striving Before God: Kierkegaard and the Concept of Religious Authorship
• Zachary Russell Simpson (2009)
  Life as Art from Nietzsche to Foucault: Life, Aesthetics, and the Task of Thinking
• Mark E. Banas (2008)
  The Primacy of Relativity in Interreligious Hemeneutics: Dialectics and Dialogical Dialogue in Gadamer and Panikkar
• Michelle Johnson (2008)
  "Pure and Undefiled Religion" David Walker's Use of the Bible Against the Christian Slaveocracy in America
• Mustafa Ruzgar (2008)
  Islamic Religious Pluralism from a Process Perspective
• Gianluigi Gugliermetto (2008)
  The Redemption of Desire A Study on the Understanding and the Use of Desire in Christian Life
• Jeremy Richard Hustwit (2007)
  Fidelity Through Fallibilism: Hermeneutics, Rationality, and Truth in Inter-Religious Discourse
• Hiheon Kim (2007)
  Minjung Messiah and Process Panentheism
• Hsin-Yi Lee (2007)
  The Moral Philosophies of H. Richard Niebuhr and Wang Yang-ming
• Jeanyne B. Slettom (2007)
  Theoanthroposis: A Process Soteriology
• Zhihe Wang (2007)
  Harmony but not Sameness:Toward a Constructive Postmodern Pluralism
• Douglas Eugene Yoder (2007)
  Tanakh Epistemology, A Philosophical Reading of an Ancient Semitic Text
• John Yong Lee (2006)
  Religious Doubt and Theological Virtues: A Thomistic Regulative Epistemology
• Richard L. Curtis (2006)
  Homo religiosus Spinning a Web of Narrative Self: Insights from the Study of Religion for an Understanding of the Self as Historical Development
• Philip Daniel Nist (2006)
  Physician Assisted Suicide, Moral Perspective, and the Limits of Moral Theories
• Jason Daniel McMartin (2006)
  Deviant Distractions: An Essay on the Epistemic Effects of Sin
• Daniel Joseph Ott (2006)
  The Church in Process: A Process Ecclesiology
• Brent H. Robinson (2006)
  Psychic Distress, Sacred Transformations, and Empathic Treatment Alternatives: An Ethical Evaluation
• Sungwon Kim (2005)
  Social Trinitarian Pneumatology in Process: A Philosophical Pneumatology Based on the Pneumatoloty of Jürgen Moltmann and the Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead
• David S. Nah (2005)
  A Critical Evaluation of John Hick's Theology of Religious Pluralism
• Jinsun Park (2005)
  Prehending God: A Whiteheadian Exploration of Religious Experience
• Monica Coleman (2004)
  Walking in the Whirlwind:  A Whiteheadian-Womanist Soteriology
• Sung Chil Choi (2004)
  Indifference in Communities:  Toward the New Paradigm of Sin
• Jerry Law (2004)
  A Supernatural Use:  Religion and Emancipation in the Thought of Simone Weil
• Mary Streufert (2004)
  Re-conceiving Lutheran Christology
• Richard Alexis Amesbury (2003)
  Agreeing to Disagree: Moral Argumentation, Social Criticism, Philosophical Contemplation
• Rouslan Olegovich Elistratov (2003)
  Searching for an Adequate Theodicy: A Critical Examination of the Debate between Process Theists and Traditional Free-Will Theists
• Christine Mbeya Mabonzo (2003)
  A Liberation Theology of Being Muntu from an African Women’s Perspective: A Comparative Study of Thomas Aquinas’ Theology of Being and African Worldviews
• Nathan Jon Stockmaster (2003)
  A Trinitarian Theology of Mission
• Seung Tae Choi (2002)
  A Eucharistic Theology of the Church as the Communion of the Whole Creation
• Scott Henry Jansen (2002)
  First Philosophical Principles in the Problem of Evil
• Youngbog Kim (2002)
  Christ and the Christian Church: A Study of Friedrich Schleiermacher’s Ecclesiology in Relation to Christology
• Sheela Lynne Pawar (2002)
  Trusting Others, Trusting God: Concepts of Belief, Faith and Rationality
• Randy Ramal (2002)
  What ‘Can Be Said’ About God? Wittgenstein and Whitehead
• John Walter Woell (2002)
  On the Trail of the Human Serpent: Philosophy, Religion and Pragmatism
• George Michael Zbaraschuk (2002)
  The Purposes of God: Providence as Process-Historical Liberation
• Jong Ho Chin (2001)
  The Trinity and Praxis: God’s Power and Suffering
• Derek Charles Malone-France (2001)
  Deep Empiricism: Kant, Whitehead and the Necessity of Philosophical Theism
• Olav Bryant Smith (2001)
  Myths of the Self: Narrative Identity and Postmodern Metaphysics
• Todd Andrew Gooch (2000)
  Rudolf Otto, Holiness and the Disenchantment of the World
• Hyun-Jong Kim (2000)
  Whose Religion is it Anyway?  “Problems” of Religious Pluralism
• Karackattil George Pothen (2000)
  Relational Cosmologies of Gregory of Nyssa and Alfred North Whitehead
• Gregory Lynn Reece (2000)
  Irony and Religious Belief: An Examination and Comparison of the Ironic Philosophies of Soren Kierkegaard and Richard Rorty
• William George Ryzek (2000)
  Sexuality and Existence: An Inquiry into the Ontological Structures of the Erotic
• Marit Anne Trelstad (2000)
  Defining the Self in a Relational Philosophical Theology
• Wen Yu Xie (2000)
  The Concept of Freedom: A Platonic-Augustinian-Lutheran-Kierkegaardian Tradition
• Patrick Rogers Horn (1999)
  The Unity of Language and Religious Belief: Gadamer and Wittgenstein
• Thomas Oord (1999)
  Matching Theology and Piety: An Evangelical Process Theology
• Jonathan Howe (1999)
  Nietzsche, Whitehead and the Problem with Nihilism
• David Clotfelter (1999)
  Before All Worlds: The Doctrine of Eternal Trinitarian Processions
• Arthur Smith (1999)
  The Power of Thought to Heal: An Ontology of Personal Faith
• Brian Birch (1999)
  The Limits of Pluralism and the Primacy of Practice: An Epistemological Inquiry into Religious Diversity
• Kyeon-Seog Kwon (1998)
  The Dialectic of Inclusion: A Research on Paul Tillich's Theology and Interreligious Encounter
• Ivory Lee Lyons, Jr. (1998)
  The Idea of Sin in the Work of Reinhold Niebuhr and Howard Thurman: A Confluence Toward Justice
• Gracia Fay Ellwood (1998)
  Holy Darkness, Holy Light: Toward an Interpretation of Painful Near-Death Experiences
• Lance Ashdown (1997)
  Anonymous Skeptics: Swinburne, Hick and Alston
• Heather Ackley Bean (1997)
  An Appalachian Woman's Theology
• Michael Miller (1996)
  Religion and the Caribbean
• Sungrnin Park (1995)
  Christ and Christian Conduct: A Study of Friedrich Schleiermacher 's Christology and Theological Ethics
• Richard Rose (1995)
  Howard Thurman's Life and Thought: Implications for Religious Pluralism and Interfaith Dialogue
• John Murphy (1995)
  Mysticism and Epistemology: A Study and Comparison of Modern Philosophical Analyses of Mysticism and the Thought of Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Joseph O.Y. Mante (1994)
  Towards an Ecological, Christian Theology of Creation in an African Context
• Nancy R. Howell (1991)
  A Feminist Theory of Relations Based Upon the Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead
• Thandeka (1988)
  The Structure of Unity: The Transcendental Presupposition of Schleiermacher's Dialektik
• Rita Nakashima Brock (1988)
  A Christology of Erotic Power: Journeys by Heart