MTS Papers (Duke)

Thesis: What Terrible Wisdom, That Awe-ful Power to Unmake: Surveying Moments of Moral Identity Amidst War (with Warren Kinghorn)

Gender, Theology, and Ministry Thesis:

Coursework

Semester 1 (Fall 2010)

OT11: Old Testament Interpretation with Anathea Portier-Young

CE44: Love in the Christian Tradition with Amy Laura Hall

CT32: Intro to Theology with Geoffrey Wainwright

P215: Prophetic Ministry with Mary McClintock-Fulkerson

Semester 2 (Spring 2011)

OT12: Old Testament Interpretation with Anathea Portier-Young

CT306: Slavery and Obedience with Willie Jennings

HT220: Virtue and Virility with J. Warren Smith

DS01: with Warren Kinghorn

Semester 3 (Fall 2012)

CH750: Early and Medieval Christianity with J. Warren Smith

• CH750a: Above, Below, Beyond, and Within:Gender, Virtue, and Transcendence in Gregory's Life of Macrina

• CH750b: Not According to Power: Divine Love & Human Will in Augustine of Hippo and John Cassian

• CH750c By the Excess of His Love: Francis of Assisi, Stigmata, and his Cruciform Life of Poverty

WS601S: Debates in Women’s Studies with Kathi Weeks

• WS601a: Feminisms: The (Un)Becoming of Man?

• WS601a: Going Deeper: The Politics of Pornography in Feminist Debate

MTS Thesis Proposal: By Vow and Virtue Alike;

• MTS 1b Embodied Witness (Hauerwas)

• MTS 2a Liberty, Dominion, & the Two Swords (Smith)

• MTS 2b The Purple Crown (Hauerwas)

• MTS 3a The Life of Martin (Smith)

• MTS 3b Biography as Theology (Hauerwas)

• MTS 4a Just War as Historical Phenomenon (Smith)

• MTS 4b Just War as Christian Discipleship (Hauerwas)

Semester 4 (Spring 2013)

DS02: Narrative Theology and Just War with Stanley Hauerwas and J. Warren Smith

CH751: Modern European Christianity with Sujin Pak

• CH751a Deceitful Lips and High-Sounding Tongues: Sadoleto & Calvin on Piety and Philosophy in Catholic Reform

• CH751b Protestant Women After the Reformation: The Already-Not-Yet Nature of Luther’s Theology of Ministry in the Eyes of Women

• CH751c Shucking Corn With a Chainsaw: A Rebuke of Adolf von Harnack’s Christianity

• CH751d A Vague & Persistent Question: Reflections on Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart

CT837: Christianity and Democracy with Luke Bretherton

• CT837a Ethics Without Eschatology; John Howard Yoder's Politics of Jesus as Critique of Christian Realism (review)

• CT837b One Violent Son of a Bitch: Hauerwasian Ecclesiology as Radically Finite Democracy

CT957: Truthfulness, Rhetoric, and Irony with Stanley Hauerwas and Sean Larsen

NT754: New Testament Interpretation with Kavin Rowe

• NT754a Textual Analysis of John 2:13–25

• NT754b Textual Analysis of Romans 5:1–11

• NT754c Daring To Reach Far Beyond Ourselves: Barth’s Hermeneutical Conditions for Biblical Interpretation

• NT754dTake These Things Away: The Father’s Economy in the Gospel of John