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The Legacies of Noah: The Bible and the Story of Noah in Seventeenth–Century England
(2022-07-29)
Much of scholarship on Early Modern England widely acknowledges the central importance of the Bible for understanding the period while also noting that it has often been neglected by scholars. This work situates itself ...
The Art of Ridicule in the Age of Reason: The Anti-Biblical Rhetoric of Thomas Paine
(2022-01-07)
Arguably the greatest political pamphleteer and propagandist in American history, Thomas Paine likewise stands as the father of American Freethought and the patron saint of popular anti-biblicism, his Age of Reason taking ...
The Other Witness: Nineteenth-Century American Protestantism and the Material Gospel Theology
(2015-04-06)
Nineteenth-century American Protestants saw the Holy Land as a material gospel: a place that preserved an authoritative and experiential account of sacred history that could be plainly read, interpreted, and reproduced. ...
Bible Matters: The Scriptural Origins of American Unitarianism
(2013-04-09)
My doctoral dissertation examines the use and interpretation of the Bible as a religious text and source of Unitarian identity, focusing specifically on four leading figures within Unitarianism from the years 1803-1865. ...
Call the Question: Reclaiming a Rhetorical Witness of Women's Claims to Preach in Nineteenth-Century America for Contemporary Homiletics
(2014-04-08)
“Call the Question” critically examines the gap between women’s divine inward call to preach and the institutional outward endorsement of the call to preach. This project is concerned with women’s call to preach and how ...
The Covert Magisterium: Theology, Textuality and the Question of Scripture
(2009-04-02)
This project utilizes cultural materialist methodologies to examine the doctrine of Scripture as it pertains to post-20th Century North American theologians. The dissertation puts forth the thesis that such theologians ...