The GTU extends its warmest congratulations to the graduating students of October 2003 and May 2004.

Doctor of Philosophy

Timothy J. Babalis
History
The Cross in the Wilderness: An Aesthetic History of the American Park Idea

Mauro Batista de Souza
Homiletics
Rhetorical Resources for a Homiletic of the Oppressed: The New Homiletics of Fred Craddock and Eugene Lowry and the Liberation Pedagogy of Paul Freire

Janet Anne Bregar
Cultural and Historical Studies of Religions
Beyond Magic: An Analytic Art Therapy Case Study of the Psychoaesthetic Dynamics in the Buddhist Tantric Kalachakra and Vodoun Vévé Sacred Drawings

Eunhee Chae
Ethics and Social Theory
Korean Immigrant Community and the Significance of Protestant Ethnic Churches

Joseph Cheah
Cultural and Historical Studies of Religions
Negotiating Race and Religion in American Buddhism: Burmese Buddhism in California

Mary Therese DesCamp
Biblical Studies
Faith and Politics, Metaphor and Meaning: Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum and Literary Methods through a Cognitive Lens

Serguei B. Dolgopolski
Jewish Studies, Joint Degree with the University of California, Berkeley
The Rhetoric of the Talmud in the Perspective of Post-Structuralism

Brian Michael Froese
History
“In This Far Off Country”: An Examination of Mennonite Identity in California, 1905-1960

Christopher C. Fuller
Interdisciplinary Studies
“Udiste che fu ditto…, Ma io dico che…”: Pasolini as Interpreter of the Gospel of Matthew

Rachel Havrelock
Jewish Studies, Joint Degree with the University of California, Berkeley
The Jordan River: Crossing a Biblical Boundary

Seong-Hyuk Hong
Biblical Studies
The Metaphor of Illness and Healing in Hosea and Its Significance in the Socioeconomic Context of Eighth-Century Israel and Judah

Hudaya Kandahjaya
Cultural and Historical Studies of Religions
A Study of the Origin and Significance of Borobudur

Uriah Yong-Hwan Kim
Biblical Studies
Decolonizing Josiah: Toward a Postcolonial Reading of the Deuteronomistic History

Darnise Martin
Cultural and Historical Studies of Religions
The View from Oakland: A Study of an African-American Religious Science Community

Rachel Ann Metheny
Ethics and Social Theory
“Give Me Thy Hand”: A New Understanding of Eroticism for the United Methodist Church

Vijayalakshmi Nakka-Cammauf
Art and Religion
Evil and Repentance in George Eliot’s Work

Peter Sam Cao Nguyen, SVD
Religion and Psychology
Vietnamese Conversion to Christianity: The Impact of the Refugee Experience

Christine Valters Paintner
Christian Spirituality
Spiritual Practices as Socially Transformative: Toward a Liberating Spirituality

Sangyil Park
Homiletics
A Narrative of Korean Preaching: A Study of Chunhyangjun’s Narrative and Its Application to Preaching in Korean Culture

Melinda Ann Quivik
Liturgical Studies
The Beautiful Funeral: The Aesthetics of a Liturgy

Richard O. Randolph
Ethics and Social Theory
The Amazonian Rain Forest as an Environmental Test Case for Renewal of the Ethics and Economics Dialogue Concerning the Common Good

Steven Joseph Schloeder
Art and Religion
The Church of the Year 2000: A Dialogue on Catholic Architecture for the Third Millennium

Richard Stevens
Interdisciplinary Studies
Burning for the Other: Semiotics of a Levinasian Theological Aesthetics in Light of Burning Man

Peter Daniel Suares
Cultural and Historical Studies of Religions
Through Negativity to Freedom: Nishitani Keiji’s Discourse on Enchantment of Consciousness in Light of the Hegelian Theory of Cognitive Development

Philip Khanh Van Trinh
Systematic and Philosophical Theology
Toward a Doctrine of Sin in the Vietnamese Context: Elements in the Dialogue between Vietnamese Indigenous Perceptions and Christian Teachings by Missionaries on Sin

Marta Vides de Gonzalez
Ethics and Social Theory
By What Authority: On the Relationship Between Restorative Justice and the Legal Practice of the Juvenile Court Waiver

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Master of Arts

Peter T. Arvantely
Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
The Agiasotissa of Agiasos Lesbos: Icons and Music at A Greek Pilgrimage Shrine

Kyriaki Avtzi
Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, WITH HONORS
The Special Commission on Orthodox Participation in the World Council of Churches

Christiane Baker
Franciscan School of Theology
The Metaphors We Get Sick By: A Study of the Moral Imagination of Illness in Popular American Cinema

Jason Beyer
Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
Young Adult Catholics: A Contemporary Look at a Potentially Mystical Faith

Hye-Sun Hyacintha Chang
Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
“For the Greater Glory of God” Reclaimed from the Spiritual Exercises: An Eco-Feminist Perspective

Jonathan B. Diaz
Franciscan School of Theology, WITH HONORS
Towards a Theology of Struggle: I Hinengen I Man Chamoru Giya Guåhanyan I Mariånas

Margaret Donlevy
Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
Latin American Liberation Theology and Its Incorporation into Roman Catholic Church Practice

Meng Hun Goh
Church Divinity School of the Pacific
Did John the Baptist Fail to Support Jesus?

Brenda Lynette Guess
American Baptist Seminary of the West
Even the Tax Collector: Liberation in the Gospel of Luke

Martha Jane Jennings
Church Divinity School of the Pacific
Light and Form in the Works of Fra Angelico and Mark Rothko

Hee-Jung Ha
Pacific School of Religion
Who’s Talking about the History of Korean Christianity?: A Case Study for Reconstructing the History of Asian Christianity

Hyesung Kang
San Francisco Theological Seminary
Taemong: Korean Birth Dreams

Christina Ann Cacanindin Leaño
Franciscan School of Theology, WITH HONORS
Covenant for Decolonization and Liberation: A Theological Reflection on the Filipino/American Coalition for Environmental Solutions (FACES)

David M. Mammola
Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
Taking Up the Cross: A Dialogical Exploration of the Spirituality of Discipleship in Matthew 16:13-28

Deborah L. Matthews
San Francisco Theological Seminary
Images of God for Adolescent Girls

Ann Mary Meunier
Pacific School of Religion
Ethical Issues Confronting Physicians Regarding Smallpox Vaccination

Nobuko Miyoshi
Institute of Buddhist Studies
The Challenge of Jodo Shinshu in America: Practicing “No Practice”

Joshua M. Moritz
Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, WITH HONORS
Returning to Eden: The Problem of Evil, Free Will Theodicy, and the Challenge of the Natural Sciences

Leah Buturain Schneider
Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, WITH HONORS
Concealing to Reveal: Quiet Insight in the Getty Annunciation by Dieric Bouts

Mistie Shaw
Franciscan School of Theology
The Spiritual Journey of Hester Ann Rogers

Jeanette G. Shin
Institute of Buddhist Studies, WITH HONORS
An Analysis of Sohei, Japan’s Militant Buddhist Monk

Kyoung-Hee Shin
San Francisco Theological Seminary
A Perspective on Selfhood: The Transition from an Old Story to a New Story

Tracey Starkovich
American Baptist Seminary of the West
Knowledge of God, Jesus and Self: Women in the Gospel of John

Patricia A. Kanaya Usuki
Institute of Buddhist Studies, WITH HONORS
Contemporary American Women in Jodo Shin Buddhism: Tradition, Transition, Transmission

Ofelia O. Villero
Franciscan School of Theology, WITH HONORS
Indigenous Healing: A Dimension of Filipino Religious Presence

Amy Black Voorhees
Pacific School of Religion, WITH HONORS
Sisters or Strangers? Mary Baker Eddy, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and the Creation of “Sisterhood” in History

Julia Drew Wakelee-Lynch
Church Divinity School of the Pacific
Remembering Who We Are: A Bioethical Case Study through the Incarnational Lens of F. D. Maurice

Aaron Jasper Welch
Church Divinity School of the Pacific
Reinhold Niebuhr and Theology as Social Ethics: A Commitment to Ambiguity and Action

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Master of Arts in Biblical Languages

Michael Patrick Ellard
Pacific School of Religion

Sukbum Jung
San Francisco Theological Seminary

Leah Sheppard
Pacific School of Religion