Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Embodied Superintendence: The Person of the Preacher in Lutheran Homiletics Especially in Relation to Cultural Identity, Dennis Matyas
Behind the Numbers: A Traditional Church Faces a New America, Larry Vogel
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
The Personalization of American Christianity: Subjective Assurance and the Puritan Conversion Narrative, Curran Bishop
A Rank-Based Analysis of Word Order and Codification in the Greek of the Pastoral Epistles, James Fickenscher
To the Glory of God Evaluating Origen’s Exposition of the Scripture in His Leviticus Homilies, Andrew Johnson
Exodus 18: Its Literary Unity and Its Key Transitional Role in the Exodus Narrative, Noppawat Kumpeeroskul
Theology of the Laity: the Lutheran Way, Brian M. Mosemann
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church’s Interpretation of Ἀναξίως in 1 Cor. 11:27−29 in Relation to Worthy Admission to the Eucharist in Light of Ritual Jewish Purity Laws Embedded in its Qeddassé and Tradition, Tibebu Teklu Senbetu Rev. Dr..
READING THE SIGNS OF THE TIME: THREE VOICES IN THE CONFESSIONAL LUTHERAN CHURCH AS THEY RELATE TO SEGREGATION, RACISM, AND APARTHEID IN SOUTH AFRICA FROM 1900–1978, Christoph Dietrich Weber
How Speech Act Theory Can Help Address Problems in Theology and Church Posed by Modern Philosophy, Charles W. Westby
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
From Vice to Virtue: Contours of Idolatry and New Obedience, Michael Fieberkorn
Jesus In, With, And Under the Spirit: The Spirit's Presence and Activity in Christ in the Sacrament of the Altar, Brian A. Gauthier
"If You Are Willing to Receive It": The Presentation of John the Baptist as Elijah in Matthew's Gospel, Aaron Goldstein
Christian Identity Meets Identity Politics: A Lutheran Approach to Political Engagement, Michael Hanson
Fortuita Misericordia: Luther on the Unchosen Figures in the Patriarchal History as shown in his Lectures on Genesis, Chan-U "Vincent" Kam
Exodus 14–15 as an Anti-Baal Polemic and Its Implications for Interpreting Exodus 15:17 and Dating These Chapters, Brent Olson
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Contemporary Confessional Commitment: A Models-Based Approach with a Particular Focus on Global South Lutheranism, Roberto Bustamante
The Sword & The Mask: Toward a Confessional Lutheran Account of Spiritual Warfare, Jon Furgeson
PARECHESIS IN THE UNDISPUTED PAULINE EPISTLES DEFINITION, IDENTIFICATION, AND DISCOVERY, Kevin Gingrich
Whither the Body: Using the Church’s Hymnody to Reassert the Hope of the Bodily Resurrection, Ruth McDonnell
“I Said, You Are Gods”: Pastoral Motives Manifest in Patristic Citations of Psalm 82:6, Charles Schulz
Life with Yahweh After Death: How the Psalter’s References to Life After Death Cohere, Bill Tackmier
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
“Visiting Iniquity of Fathers Against Sons” in Exodus, Thomas Egger
Mission in the Margins: An Emplaced Missional Ecclesiology for the Brazilian Church in Urban Environments, Samuel Fuhrmann
A Narrative Inquiry of the Lived Experience of Three Female Assemblies of God Lead Pastors, Ryan Harris
Purity/Impurity and the Lordship of Jesus in the Gospel According to Mark, David Issac Lewis
Lived Kardecism - A Phenomenological Approach to Understanding Brazilian Spiritism, William Miller
Giftive Dialogue: An Analysis of the Use of the Giftive Metaphor in the Pluralist Context of the Lutheran University of Brazil, Maximiliano Silva
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Translating Pun and Play - Wordplay and Soundplay in Hosea, Eric Fudge
The Salvation of the Household in Lukian Theology A Tool for Mission and Evangelism in the West African Church; Acts 16:25-34 as a Case Study, Jean Baptiste Mberebe
The Practical Orthodoxy of Balthasar Meisner: The Content and Context of his Theology, David R. Preus
My Eyes Have Seen Your Consolation_ ΠΑΡΑΚΛΗΣΙΣ in Luke-Acts, Alexandre Vieira
Grammars of Transformation: Saving Evangelical Cultural Engagement, William Watts
The Eclipse of Elegance: Towards a Contemporary Lutheran Aesthetics of Discipleship, Andrew Whaley
Friendship and Gift in 2 Corinthians 8–9: Social Relations and Conventions in the Jerusalem Collection, Ruth Whiteford
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Ad Gloriam Dei Humanism and Theology in David Chytraeus’ Regulae Studiorum, Timios Cook
My Brother’s Keeper How American Lutherans Fought to Preserve the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Russia in the USSR, 1921–1939, Matthew Heise
Faith Comes by Hearing: The Interrelationship of Theology, Faith, and Practice, Nathan Olson
Prayerbook of Christ, Prayerbook of the Church: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Christological Interpretation of the Psalms, Brad Pribbenow
LCMS Identity and Mission in the American Urban Context: Engaging Conian Black Theology Through Strategic Lutheran Missiology, Gregory Seltz
[תוֹמכּ֣] in Josianic Reforms, Brian Taylor
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Jesus, The New Temple Mark 11:20–25 in its Narrative Context, Daniel Jeffrey Berge
Christ, Church, and World: A Christological Ecclesiology for Post-Christendom, Theodore Hopkins
Burmese Nationalism and Christianity in Myanmar: Christian Identity and Witness in Myanmar Today, Zam Khat Kham
Gospel Encounter With Subaltern India , Stanish Stanley
Hindutva Nationalism and Civil Government in India: Towards a Theology of Engagement from Luther’s Two Realm Perspective, Sam Thompson
Holiness Unto Whom? John Wesley’s Doctrine of Entire Sanctification in Light of The Two Kinds of Righteousness, John Trinklein
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
The Gospel in Singapore - The Impact of Civil Religion and Civil Law, Mark Madson
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
“No One Has Ever Seen God” (John 1:18): Not Seeing Yet Believing in the Gospel of John, Kevin Armbrust
An Analysis of the Attributive Participle and the Relative Clause in the Greek New Testament, Michael Hayes
A Theology of Creation Lived Out in Christian Hymnody, Beth Hoeltke
Worshipping Meaningfully: The Complementary Dynamics of Liturgy and Theology in Worship, Joseph Omolo
Slaying the Syncretistic Chimera: A Study of the Consensus Repetjtus in Light of Confessionalization Theory, Timothy Schmeling
Christian Hope Among Rivals: Life-Organizing Stories As Narrative Theodices, Michael Zeigler
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Promissio Spei God's Eschatological Action in the Church, Richard Aaron Davenport
An (Enduring) Ecclesiology Beyond the Cultural Captivity of the Church, Chad Lakies
Luther on Idolatry: A Lutheran Response to Contemporary False Belief, Michael Lockwood
Life in the Spirit: A Post-Constantinian and Trinitarian Account of the Christian Life, Andrea Snavely
The Biblical Text of Pelagius in his Commentary on 2 Corinthians a New Reconstruction, Wilbert Stelzer
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Christian Justification after Nihilism, Joel Meyer
Honorable Shame: The Rhetorical Use of Didactic Shame Discourse in Ezekiel 36:16-32, Ronald Mudge
Presenting Himself as an Approved Worker: The Narratological Function of the Prayers in the Book of Nehemiah, Philip Penhallegon
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Doctrine after Foundationalism, Robert Lewis Fossett
Reading Dialogically : A Bakhtinian Approach to Interpreting Elijah, Mark Hoehner
John Wesley‟S Liturgical Revision: A Pattern for Reshaping Worship for Post-Christian America, Lawrence A. Lacher
A Theology of Religious Change, David J. Zehnder
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Aural Design and Coherence in the Prologue of First John, Jeffrey E. Brickle
“Wait for Me”: Appreciating the Curious Juxtaposition of Zephaniah 3:8 and 9, Bob Caldwell
Beyond Justice: Death and the Retribution Principle in the Book of Job, Varunaj Churnai
Problems in a Movement-Towards a Mutual Hierarchy Social Model of the Trinity, Jeffrey Dukeman
The Waves of the Deluge Breaking on Jonah the Intertextual Use of the Noachic Narrative in Jonah, Kevin S. Golden
Cut Off From(One's) People_Punitive Expulsion In The Torah, G Thomas Hobson
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
The Use of Yala Proverbs (Paremia) in Communicating the Gospel: A Model for Communicating the Gospel in Africa, Michael Oko Adoga
Towards a Comprehensive Approach to Islam in the United States, Berhanu D. Arsse
The Pelikan Movement - An Immigrant Story, Richard Blythe
Evaluating the Whirlwind: The American Lutheran Theological Interpretations of Pre-war Nazi Germany, John Philip Hellwege Jr.
Reversion and Syncretism among the Wimbum Baptists of Cameroon, West Africa: A Missiological Problem, Gabriel N. Massa
Theme and Structure in Isaiah 28-33 a Unified and Coherent Reading Centered on Chapter 30, G. Vincent Medina
"These Are Written" Toward a Cruciform Theology of Scripture, Peter Nafzger
Contemporary Preaching to a Non-contemporary Society: Nineteenth-Century Reformed Theology Comes to Non-nineteenth-Century Brazil, Jorge Luiz Patrocinio
Can God Be Persuaded A Discussion of the Immutability of God in Luther's Catechesis on Prayer, Timothy Roser
Preaching the Story behind the Image a Narrative Approach to Metaphor for Preaching, Justin P. Rossow
Global Nomads: Identity and Assimilation of 1.5 and second- generation Ethiopians in the United States, Tesfai Zeleke Tesema
Community Cohesiveness as a Factor in Successful Urban Outreach., James Carl Tino
A Study of Wholistic Ministry Factors that Contributed to the Effectiveness of Mission Among the Karayu Oromo of Ethiopia, Solomon Endashaw Yadessa
Preaching the Gospel in Korea: A Critical Analysis of the Contextual Theologies of Shamanism and Minjung, JongPil Yoo
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Paul's Use of the Old Testament in Ephesians 4:25-26, R. Thomas Buck
Beyond Appearance: Irony and the Death of Jesus in the Matthean Passion Narrative (26:1-27:66), InHee Cho
A Case Study of Challenges Foreign-born Church Leaders Face in Establishing Multicultural Churches in the United States, Josef A. Howard
