MTS Coursework

Thesis: "What Terrible Wisdom, That Awe-ful Power to Unmake: Surveying Moments of Moral Identity Amidst War" with Warren Kinghorn

Gender, Theology, and Ministry Thesis: "The Irony of Heroic Masculinity: An Exploration of War and Cinema" with Amy Laura Hall

Semester 1 (Fall 2010)

Old Testament Introduction (OT11) with Anathea Portier-Young

Love in the Christian Tradition (CE144) with Amy Laura Hall

• CE144a: "Who and whose are you? Naming and Claiming in Toni Morrison’s Beloved"
• CE144b: "Steam Rising: Fire & Water in Marilynne Robinson's Gilead"
• CE144c: "God at the Threshold: A close reading from Soren Kierkegaard’s Works of Love"

Intro to Theology (CT32) with Geoffrey Wainwright

• "Enemy Love: Stepping Stone or Stumbling Block?"

Parish Ministry (P215)with Mary McClintock-Fulkerson

• "Let the Stones Cry Out: IVAW and the Question of Secular Prophetic Action"

Semester 2 (Spring 2011)

Old Testament Interpretation (OT12) with Anathea Portier-Young

• OT12a: Isaiah 6 Exegetical Brief
• OT12b: Isaiah 6 Sermon
• OT12c: Isaiah 6 Artistic Intertexts
• OT12d: Isaiah 6 Exegetical Paper

Slavery and Obedience (CT306) with Willie Jennings

Virtue and Virility (HT220) with J. Warren Smith

DS01: with Warren Kinghorn

Semester 3 (Fall 2012)

Early and Medieval Christianity (CH750) with J. Warren Smith

• CH750a: "Above, Below, Beyond, and Within:Gender, Virtue, and Transcendence in Gregory's Life of Macrina"
• CH750b: "Not According to Power: Divine Love & Human Will in Augustine of Hippo and John Cassian"
• CH750c: "By the Excess of His Love: Francis of Assisi, Stigmata, and his Cruciform Life of Poverty"

Debates in Women’s Studies (WS601S) with Kathi Weeks

• WS601-a: "Feminisms: The (Un)Becoming of Man?"
• WS601-b: "Going Deeper: The Politics of Pornography in Feminist Debate"

Semester 4 (Spring 2013)

MTS Thesis Proposal (DS02) with Stanley Hauerwas and Warren Smith

• "By Vow and Virtue Alike; A Narrative Challenge to Just War Propositions"

Modern European Christianity (CH751) with Sujin Pak

• CH751a: "Deceitful Lips and High-Sounding Tongues: Sadoleto & Calvin on Piety and Philosophy in Catholic Reform"
• CH751b: "Protestant Women After the Reformation: The Already-Not-Yet Nature of Luther’s Theology of Ministry in the Eyes of Women"
• CH751c: "Shucking Corn With a Chainsaw: A Rebuke of Adolf von Harnack’s Christianity"
• CH751d: "A Vague & Persistent Question: Reflections on Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart"

Christianity and Democracy (CT837) with Luke Bretherton

• CT837-a: "Ethics Without Eschatology; John Howard Yoder's Politics of Jesus as Critique of Christian Realism (review)"
• CT837-b: "One Violent Son of a Bitch: Hauerwasian Ecclesiology as Radically Finite Democracy"
• CT837-c: "A Rationally Disorganized Temporary Witness: Stanley Hauerwas (on Politics, theology, and Democracy)"

Truthfulness, Rhetoric, and Irony (CT957) with Stanley Hauerwas and Sean Larsen

• "That You May See What You Are: Rhetorical Characters in the Letters of Augustine of Hippo and Sulpicius Severus"

New Testament Interpretation (NT754) with Kavin Rowe

• NT754a: "Textual Analysis of John 2:13–25"
• NT754b: "Textual Analysis of Romans 5:1–11"
• NT754c: "Daring To Reach Far Beyond Ourselves: Barth’s Hermeneutical Conditions for Biblical Interpretation"
• NT754d: "Take These Things Away: The Father’s Economy in the Gospel of John"