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Honors Theses Since 1983

·       Baker, L. Elaine, "Sanctuary, Hospitality, and Ecclesiology: Toward an Integrated Understanding of Church Function." Adviser: Beach-Verhey (2003).

·       Barber, Ashley E. "Recovering Physician Identity with Gratitude and Obligation: From Technical Expert to Profession or Calling." Adviser: Beach-Verhey (2005).

·       Blood, Barbara. "Banality and the Holocaust." Adviser: Plank (1988).

·       Blue, Anne C. "The Emperor's Offer: A Study of Guilt in Literature and Theology." Adviser: Plank (1988).

·       Burchett, Patton E. "The Historical and Intellectual Origins of the Ch'an Tradition: A Study in the Acculturation of Buddhism in China." Adviser: Mahony (2000).

·       Calhoun, Jenny D. "Constructing Knowledge: Confronting Objectivity in the Religion Classroom." Adviser: Foley (2000).

·       Campbell, Elizabeth Grace. "Through the Eyes of Kathleen Norris and Annie Dillard: Sight for the Vulnerable and Horrific and How the Ordinary Illumines the Sacred." Advisers: Plank and Wills (2005).

·       Clark-Brown, Douglas H. "Womanist Theology and Classical Atonement: An Examination of Womanist Christological Critiques of Classical Atonement Theologies and the Relevance of Atonement Christology in Black and Oppressed Communities." Adviser: Ottati (2009).

·       Clasen, Liz. "Back to the Beginning: Creation through the Eyes of Homelessness." Adviser: Plank (2000).

·       Cohan, Amy. "Modern Midrash and the Akedah: Aharon Appelfeld's The Age of Wonders and Chaim Potok's My Name is Asher Lev." Adviser: Plank (1994).

·       Crane, Cammy. "Tolla Mulier in Utero: Tamar Revisited through the Modern Lens of Esther in The Bell Jar and Sylvia Plath's Bee Poems." Adviser: Plank (2006).

·       Cribbs, Erica. "American Myth and the U.S. Presidency: How U.S. Presidents View the Role of Religion in American Public Life." Adviser: Wills (2009).

·       Davis, Sarah, "The Way of Anti-Structure: A Turnerian Reading of Early Taoist Socio-Political Thought." Adviser: Lee (2003).

·       Davis, Tindal. "Feminist Biblical Interpretation and Biblical Authority." Adviser: Kaylor (1991).

·       Drake, Anna P. "Sex, God, and the Language of Love: Theological Dimensions of the Song of Songs." Adviser: Plank (2008).

·       Foster, John A., "A Church Responsive: The Changing Composition of Protestantism in Latin America and Its Effects on Democratic Consolidation." Adviser: Beach-Verhey (2003).

·       Goodnoe, Carley. "The Dao and Dialogue of Dressage. An Application of Daoism and Martin Buber's I AND THOU to the Equestrian Art of Dressage." Adviser: Poland (2001).

·       Gyauch, Denise. "The Corpus Christi Cycle: Medieval Play and Sacred Drama." Adviser: Plank (1986).

·       Hall, Virginia C. "The Theological Anthropology of Frederick Denison Maurice." Adviser: McKelway (1990).

·       Hamilton, Alexis L. "Just War and Armed Humanitarian Intervention: Reinterpreting Jus ad Bellum Criteria." Adviser: Lustig (2008).

·       Hess, Cyndi. "Franz Kafka: The Search for Transcendence, Truth, and Tradition." Adviser: Plank (1994).

·       Heston, Anderson P. "Horace Bushnell and the Mode of Prophetic Revelation." Adviser: Wills (2005).

·       Ireland, Elizabeth "Left Behind: Making Religious Space at the Arivaca Altar." Adviser: Wills (2007).

·       Ivey, Franklin D. "Paul's Gospel of the New Creation: II Cor. 5:16-2l." Adviser: Kaylor (1984).

·       Jackson, David. "The Jacob Cycle: Sibling Rivalry in Genesis." Adviser: Plank (1998).

·       Janiec, Katherine J. "Saying 'No' to Causality and 'Yes' to Restored Relation: The Banalization of Sexuality as a Stumbling Block to I-You Dialogue." Adviser: Plank (1990).

·       Kelly, L. Caroline. "The Generative Irony of Yahweh in Judges 4-5 and Esther." Adviser: Poland (1998).

·       Kilby, Christie. "The Poetics of Praise: Eastern Orthodox Aesthetics in the Writings of Rainer Maria Rilke and Thomas Merton." Adviser: Plank (2006) HIGH HONORS.

·       Kinner, J. Kyle. "Survivor / Artists and the Poetics of Memory: Abraham Sutzkever and Paul Celan." Adviser: Plank (1993). HIGH HONORS.

·       Klaasen, Carolyn. "Reading from Both Sides of the Gate: Scholarly and Marginalized Exegesis." Adviser: Plank (2009).

·       Lovellette, Grant. "Jotirao Govindrao Phule and the Western Reimagining of Brahmanic Mythology." Adviser: Mahony (2003).

·       Marshburn, Christopher. "AntiJudaism and Christian Faith." Adviser: Polley (1983).

·       McCrorey, Julia S. "Radical Dependence: The Human Situation from the Perspectives of Saint Augustine and Simone Weil." Adviser: Foley (1989).

·       McDonald, Susan. "Process Theology and the Search for an Ecological Theology." Adviser: McKelway (1993).

·       Ogden, Joslyn Eleanor. "Walter Rauschenbusch and Reinhold Niebuhr: Advocates of Christian Social Action." Adviser: Kuykendall (2000).

·       Orsbon, David A. "Bede's Sacred Order: Schemes and Tropes in the Ecclesiastical History." Adviser: Foley (2009). HIGH HONORS.

·       Pappas, Joshua I. "Hermeneutics in Modern Perspective: Orthodoxy's Call for Renewed Continuation of the Patristic Legacy." Adviser: Snyder (2008).

·       Rich, Matthew A. "Humanity, Grace, and the Church. Patristic Sources for Church Renewal."Adviser: Foley (1997).

·       Richardson, Cameron. "Transforming Theology: Feminism and Liberation in the Work of Dorothee Soelle." Adviser: Plank (2001).

·       Robinson, Grace C. "Solidarity: The Political Theology of Pope John Paul II." Adviser: Foley (1999).

·       Sadowski, Sarah J. "Diabolical Demise: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis and the Collapse of Covenant Theology." Adviser: Foley (1993). HIGH HONORS.

·       Skinner, Trey, "Becoming Through Paradox: Thomas Merton's Spiritual and Vocational Development." Adviser: Plank (2007).

·       Stephens, Michael C. "'All Things to All People': Second Century Images of the Apostle Paul." Adviser: Plank (1987).

·       Stiff, Joshua D. "Theological Questioning: Bonhoeffer and the 'Who' of Jesus Christ." Adviser: Poland (2006).

·       Vinson, Richard. "They Sat in Judgment: Nashville as Test Case for Blumenthal's Theory of Hierarchy and Peer Authority." Adviser: Plank (2002). HIGH HONORS.

·       Walters, Christopher Michael. "Psychological Approaches to Understanding Prayer." Adviser: Poland (2000).

·       Yopp, Heather. "Change Within Tradition: A Theological Exploration of Catholic Doctrine." Adviser: Wills (2006).

·       Zeh, Kathryn L. "Affirming the Maternal: Moving Toward a Theology for Mothers." Adviser: Poland (2005).

·       Zirkle, Anne K. "Moses Mendelssohn: Tradition, Modernity, and the Politics of Bildung." Adviser: Plank (1994). HIGH HONORS.

Copies of all Honors Theses are in the Davidson College Library Archives.