Recent scholarship & publications

New Books by Faculty Members at the TST Colleges

John L. McLaughlin, Justice in the Balance: Learning from the Prophets. Ottawa: Novalis Press, 2008

New Books by Alumni of TST's Doctoral Program

Yoon-Man Park, Mark's Memory Resources and the Controversy Stories (Mk 2:1-3:6). Leiden: Brill, 2010.

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Doctoral Dissertations

Ever wondered what kind of groundbreaking research is done by the doctoral students of the TST member colleges? The below list will give you an idea. The list includes all of the doctoral dissertations (DMin, PhD and ThD) of those students who  graduated in 2008-2009 and 2007-2008.

2008-2009

BelleMare, Mario (M). The Feast of the Unvited: Popular Religion, Liberation, Hybridity. PhD/Th. Director: Lee Cormie. November 2008.

Bergen, Jeremy (E). The Emerging Practice of Ecclesial Repentance and the Nature and Mission of the Church. PhD/Th. Director: Joe Mangina. November 2008.

Chartrand, Leon (M). An Originative Perspective of Wildness and its Implications for Dwelling in Nearness to Grizzly Bears in the Yellowstone: A Phenomenological Case for a Primordial Ethic. PhD/Th. Director: Dennis O’Hara. November 2008.

Dentry, Ann (E). Toward an Interpretive Ministry of the Word in the Lutheran Tradition, Grounded in ‘Spiritual Conversion’ with Particular Reference to the Work of Martin Luther and Ignatius of Loyola. ThD/P. Director: Gill Goulding. May 2009.

Dias, Darren (M). The Contributions of Bernard J.F. Lonergan to a Systematic Understanding of Religious Diversity. PhD/Th. Director: Robert Doran. November 2008.

Evans, Paul (W). Prolegomena to the Use of 2 Kings 18-19 in the Historical Reconstruction of Sennacherib’s 701 B.C.E Invasion into Judah. PhD/B. Director: Mark J. Boda. November 2008.

Mader, Christine (M). Where the Laity’s Participation in the Threefold Office of Christ Intersects with Ordained Roles: The Contribution of the Second Vatican Council to an Understanding of this Overlap. PhD/Th. Director: Margaret O’Gara. November 2008.

Malia, Linda (M). Transformation toward Being a Ministering/Sacramental Community: A Study of the Role of the Rites of Healing in the Episcopal Church from 1979-2000. ThD/P. Directors: David Reed & Michael Stoeber. November 2008.

Medina, Nestor (E). “Race,” Culture, and Faith: (Re)Mapping the Development of Mestizaje in Theology. PhD/Th. Director: Lee Cormie. November 2008.

Minear, Anthony (W). A Sequential Analysis of Isaiah 24-27. PhD/B. Director: Brian Peckham. November 2008.

Murray, Russel (M). The Call of Dialogue: Reading the Papacy through the Lens of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission. PhD/Th. Director: Margaret O’Gara. November 2008.

Oeste, Gordon (W). Legitimacy, Illegitimacy, and the Right to Rule: Windows on Abimelech’s Rise and Demise in Judges 9. PhD/B. Director: Patricia Dutcher-Walls. November 2008.

Price, Constance (M). Pneumatology in the International Roman Catholic-Pentecostal Dialogue, 1972-1997: Areas for Further Study. PhD/Th. Director: Margaret O’Gara. November 2008.

Seiling, Jonathan (E). From Antimony to Sophiology: Modern Russian Religious Consciousness and Sergei N. Bulgakov’s Critical Appropriation of German Idealism. PhD/H. Director: T. Allan Smith. November 2008.

Soukoreff, Maureen (E). A Study of Spiritual and Religious Visiting in a Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Institution. DMin. Directors: Gary Redcliffe & Don Gillies. May 2009.

Weir, Heather (W). Teaching the Bible with Sarah Trimmier. ThD/P. Director: Nam Soon Song. May 2009.

2007-2008

Browne, Orville (EM) “Assessing Healthcare Providers’ Responses to African and Caribbean Families Living with HIV” ThD. Director: Marilyn Legge. May 2008.

Choi, JinBong (KN) “’The Word Became Flesh and Lived Among Us, and We have Seen His Glory’: A Theological Homiletics for the Korean Church’s Appropriation of the Gospel with Special Reference to Hilkert’s Proposal Rooted in Paul Ricoeur’s ‘Hermeneutic of Belief’” ThD. Director: David Jacobsen. May 2008.

Dunghe, Adelmo (RG) “A Hermeneutics of Film: Pasolini’s Semiotics and a Cinema of the Sacred” PhD. Directors: Robert Doran and Bart Testa . November 2007.

Harris, Mark (EM) “The Search for Meaning in Congregational Worship” DMin. Director: William Kervin. May 2008.

Johnson, Marcus (TR). “Union with Christ in the Applied Soteriology of John Calvin” PhD. Director: Victor Shepherd. November 2007.

Keough, Shawn (SM) “Exegesis Worthy of God: The Development of Biblical Interpretation in Alexandria” PhD. Director: Pablo Argárate. November 2007.

Kim, Dong-Ha (KN) “The Significance of the Trinitarian Koinonia for a Contemporary Ecclesiology: The Contributions of Miroslav Volf and John Zizioulas” ThD. Director: Harold Wells. May 2008.

Langknecht, Hank (EM) “Giving Scripture its Voice: The Tensive Impertinence of the Literal Sense of the Pericope, Metaphorical Meaning-Making, and Preaching the Word of God” ThD. Director: Paul Wilson. May 2008.
Lee, Jeong-WoPaul Wilson” PhD. Director: Whoever. November 2007.

MacDonald, Ron (SM) “The Singer and the Song: The Pastoral Dimension of Singing in the Reformed Roman Catholic Liturgical Rite” DMin. Directors: Willis Nobel and William Kervin. November 2007.

Min, Jeong Kee (TR) “Toward a Trinitarian Ecological Theology: A Study in Jurgen Moltmann’s Panentheism” ThD. Director: Harold Wells. May 2008.

Park, Yoon Man (TR) “Mark’s Memory Resources and the Controversy Stories (Mark 2.1-3.6): An Application of the Frame Theory of Cognitive Science (Cognitive Linguistics and Psychology) to the Markan Oral-Aural Narrative” ThD. Director: Stanley Porter Whoever. May 2008.

Suderman, Derek (EM) “Prayers Heard and Overheard: Shifting Address and Methodological Matrices in Psalms Scholarship” PhD. Director: Michael Kolarcik. November 2007.

Yeo, Ji-Won (John) (WY) “Plundering the Egyptians: The Old Testament and Historical Criticism at Westminster Theological Seminary (1929-1998)” PhD. Director: Marion Taylor. November 2007.