The GTU extends its warmest congratulations to the graduating students of October 2004 and May 2005.

Doctor of Philosophy

Yong-Sung Ahn
Biblical Studies
The Reign of God and Rome in Luke 19:45-23:56: A Cultural Interpretation from an East Asian Global Perspective

Adrienne Nock Ambrose
History
The Virgin of Strassengel: An Image of Maria Sola in Late Medieval Devotion

Judith Bishop
History
Sanctity as a Mirror of Society: Culture, Gender and Religion in the Three Oldest Vitae of Brigit of Ireland

William Jordan Doggett
Liturgical Studies
Bright and Beautiful: Images of Nature in English-Language Hymns and Hymnals for Children

Ron H. Feldman
Cultural and Historical Studies of Religions
“New Moon after New Moon and Sabbath after Sabbath”: The Tension between Culture and Nature in the Cycles of Sabbath and Moon in Jewish Calendars

Paul M. Fullmer
Biblical Studies
Resurrection in Mark’s Literary-Historical Context

Steve Theodore Georgiou
Art and Religion
Sea and Sky: Robert Lax and the Spiritual Dimensions of Minimalism

Lee Gilmore
Cultural and Historical Studies of Religions
Theater in a Crowded Fire: Spirituality, Ritualization, and Cultural Performativity and the Burning Man Festival

Yoon Lee
Biblical Studies
1QM (the War Scroll) in its Roman Context

Mary Elise Lowe
Systematic and Philosophical Theology
The Human Subject and Sin: Autonomy, Relationality or Constitution

Gay Ord Pollock Lynch
Cultural and Historical Studies of Religions
“Do not leave me behind unwept”: The Imperative of Grief and Its Aesthetic Forms in Greek Tradition

Joseph Andrew Marchal
Biblical Studies
Hierarchy, Unity, and Imitation: A Feminist Rhetorical Analysis of Power Dynamics in Paul’s Letter to the Philippians

Marcia McFee (Menefee)
Liturgical Studies
Primal Patterns: Ritual Dynamics, Ritual Resonance, Polyrythmic Strategies and The Formation of Christian Disciples

Michael Patrick Murphy
Interdisciplinary Studies
Hans Urs von Balthasar and Narrative Art: A Compass for a Catholic Imagination

Elizabeth Kultgen Nash
Ethics and Social Theory
Care at the Center of Economic Choice: Resolving the Conflict between Housing and Agriculture in the San Joaquin (CA) Valley

Susan Lee Olsen
Liturgical Studies
If Necessary Use Words: Modern Dance as Critical Contributor to Liturgical Renewal

Daniel J. Peterson
Systematic and Philosophical Theology
The Hidden Heterodoxy of the Hidden God: An Analysis of the Deus Absconditus in Classical and Contemporary Christian Theology

Nancy Pineda-Madríd
Systematic and Philosophical Theology
Interpreting Our Lady of Guadalupe: Mediating the Christian Mystery of Redemption

Peter Walter Rehwaldt
Worship, the Arts, and Proclamation
Let All the People Say “Amen!”:
A Multigenerational Understanding of Rite, Hymnody, and Preaching

Naomi Southard
Cultural and Historical Studies of Religions
Muskogees, Methodists and Salt Creek Church: An Ethnohistorical Study

Yik Fai Tam
Interdisciplinary Studies
A Historiographic and Ethnographic Study of Xianghua Heshang (Incense and Flower Monks) in the Mexian Region

Francisco Albert Tizon
Interdisciplinary Studies
Mission as Transformation in the Philippines: The Holistic Journey of Radical Evangelicals in Global-Local Perspective

Karen Ann Halvorsen Wacome
Biblical Studies
Watching the Sacrifice of Isaac: Bakhtin, Dialogism and Genesis 22:1-19

Ruth Ohm Wright
Biblical Studies
Churches in Miniature: Chapels of Late Antiquity in Ephesus

Sojung Yoon
Biblical Studies
“Not in Persuasive Words of Wisdom”?: Paul’s Rhetoric in 1 Corinthians 1:18-2:16

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Master of Arts

Rudolph Baba Alumam
Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
Imaging God in Spiritual Direction from the Attachment Theory Perspective

Erin Brigham
Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
The Tread that Unites: Elizabeth A. Johnson’s Contribution to a Feminist Understanding of Community

Lisa A. Casey
Pacific School of Religion
“To Make Pure the Body Politic”: San Francisco’s Protestant Clergy and the Vigilance Committee of 1856

Laura R. Damkoehler
WITH HONORS
American Baptist Seminary of the West
Celluloid Sisters: Roman Catholic Nuns in American Film

Justin A. Davis
Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology
Karl Barth’s View of the New Creation as Found in the Church Dogmatics in Comparison with Schleiermacher’s View of the New Creation

Maureen Day
WITH HONORS
Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
Conservative and Liberal Catholic Women: Culture and Identity through Women’s Ordination, Abortion, Homosexuality and Feminism

Natalie E. Fisk
Institute of Buddhist Studies
Vietnamese Buddhism, American Buddhism, Modern Buddhism:
Conflicts in a Bay Area Sangha

Robert Galoob
Center for Jewish Studies
Radical Jewish Martyrdom during the First Crusade

Erin Lynne Christensen Giles
Church Divinity School of the Pacific
What Have the Bishops Said about Human Sexuality? A Study of the Teachings of the Lambeth Conference Reports on Human Sexuality

Takvya Hino
WITH HONORS
Institute of Buddhist Studies
The Doken Shonin and the Cult of Kinpusew in the Deification of Sugawara No Michizane

Craig Nicholas Horning
Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
The Jesuit Volunteer Corps: The Effect of Organizational Values on Former Volunteers’ Identity, Commitment and Choices

Jessica Konig
San Francisco School of Theology
God and Time: A Theological Interpretation of the Block Universe

Hyeon-Ho Lee
Pacific School of Religion
The Balance of Inward and Outward Holiness in John Wesley’s Love Spirituality

John David Long-García
Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology
“Sexuatedness” and the Reciprocity of Man and Woman in the Anthropologies of Julián Marías and John Paul II

José Manuel Magaña
American Baptist Seminary of the West
The Transfiguration: Its Genre, Structure, Meaning and Influence from Mark to Revelation

John Mandsager
WITH HONORS
Center for Jewish Studies
Do Not Disturb: Identity, Autonomy, and the Inn in Rabbinic Storytelling

Bradley J. Nabors
Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
Identity Construction and Maintenance in the Christian Motorcyclists Association

Adam Thomas Olsen
Pacific School of Religion
A Call for Unity: The Rhetorical Polemic in Bonaventure’s Sermon on the Feast Day of St. Francis in 1262.

Jacqueline Pearce
Starr King School for the Ministry
The Role of “Ren” and “Yi” in Three Kingdoms

Elizabeth Prince
Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
A Community of Friends:
Resources of Liberation Theology for Homelessness in the United States

Katie Pfister
Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
Sheep among Sheep: Sharing History, Considering Theology, and Healing Memories in the Roman Catholic and Mennonite Bilateral Agreement “Called Together to be Peacemakers”

Patricia Puder
Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary
Contextuality and the Interpretation of Scripture in Hong Kong

Stanley P. Raggio
Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
The Impact of Globalization on the Poor in El Salvador

Sarah E. Robinson
Pacific School of Religion
What Was Mary Magdalene’s Good News? Conceptualizing the “Gospel of Mary”

Yvette J. Schock
Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary
Living into Our Place in God’s World of Abundance: Addressing Economic Practices, Ethical Formation and Christian Identity in Consumer Society

Hae Soon Shim
Institute of Buddhist Studies
Gaofeng Yuanmiao’s “Three Essentials”: The Nature and Function of Doubt in Chinese Kanhua Meditation

Sandra Stacey
Church Divinity School of the Pacific
Harps in the Hands of God:
Ephrem the Syrian as Spiritual Mirror and Model for Today’s Christians

Colleen Stevens
Center for Jewish Studies
Melodic Midrash: On the Exegetical Properties of the Ta-amei Ha Mikrah

Luann Chandra Tunmore
Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
Trading Stories: Empowering Middle American Christians to do Justice in a Globalized World

Jacob E. Van Vleet
Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology
Technology and Hope in the Thought of Jacques Ellul

Niki Whiting
Pacific School of Religion
Thoroughly Modern Mary: A Study in Contemporary White Feminist Mariology

Teresa Yu
Franciscan School of Theology
Intimate Partner Violence and Redemption Theologies

Mee-Yin Mary Yuen
Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
Solidarity and Subsidiarity in an Age of Globalization: A Critical Analysis of Catholic Social Teaching in the Hong Kong Context

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Master of Arts in Biblical Languages

Richetta Najuma Amen
American Baptist Seminary of the West

David Bass Canady
San Francisco Theological Seminary

Ikani Latu Fakasiieiki
Pacific School of Religion

Roy Allan Fisher
San Francisco Theological Seminary

Jinoh Kim
American Baptist Seminary of the West

Huimin Shi
Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley

Justin Marc Smith
Pacific School of Religion