Master of Arts: 1937-Current

Chicago Theological Seminary MA Theses

1937-1940

  • Van Lissel, Carrie Elizabeth. A home-made standard stage for religious drama in the church (1937)
  • Edgar, Robert A. Building a church school curriculum for high school students (1938)
  • Guild, Frances Margaret. Family social work in two Chicago neighborhood houses (1938)
  • Hadley, Grace Bradbury. Proposals for the initial training of vacation church school workers (1938)
  • Manthei, Edward Frederick. A study of Congregational youth groups in the Chicago area (1938)
  • Satterlee, Virginia Evans. A study of social work in thirty-one selected Protestant churches (1939)
  • Wassenich, Ruth Siegfried. Prolegomena to a Christian aesthetic (1939)
  • Watson, Winnifred. The religious values in the dramas of Eugene O’Neill (1939)
  • Bird, Dorothy. Creative dramatics as a means of religious education for children (1940)
  • Bond, Eleanor Margaret. Factors in the shift from the evangelistic approach to the educational and recreational approach in the program of the Bethlehem Community Center (1940)
  • Joy, Adena. The arts among rural youth in some communities in Illinois (1940)
  • Kagin, Julia Elizabeth. A study of the relation of worship experience to the intermediate age group(1940)
  • Maddox, Jessie. Attitudes of the negro of the Lake Street area of Chicago toward the institutional life of the community (1940)
  • Olmstead, Ruth Roberts. A study of personality problems in a rural community (1940)
  • Vigars, Margaret Alice. A comparison of four interpretations of Christian ethics in terms of social problems (1940)

1941-1970

  • Avery, Perry Dickinson. The function of the arts in religion (1941)
  • Blair, Lois Faye. An experimental approach to the concept of God for the primary department (1941)
  • Eastman, Frances. Becoming aware of God: a unit of study for high school people (1941)
  • Huntington, Jeanette. Living with Juniors (1941)
  • Morse, Evangeline. Creative dramatics as means of meeting the religious needs of children (1941)
  • Williams, Jean Starr. A study of religious drama in certain churches of six Protestant denominations in the United States (1941)
  • Jamison, Carnella LeEsther. Missionary education of the disinherited: foundations of missionary education for Negro Disciples (1942)
  • Moore, Viola Lindblade. Three religious insights of Henrik Ibsen (1942)
  • Murdock, Dorothy Marion. A survey of workers’ education in the United States from a Christian viewpoint (1942)
  • Ulrich, Frances. Teaching guide for Junior worship (1942)
  • Williams, Palmer Day. A theory of worship in practice (1942)
  • Broadbent, Evelyn Handy. The use of the dance in religious education (1943)
  • Finke, Madge Axford. Methodist C.P.S. camp members: a study of growth (1943)
  • Smucker, Mary Emily. Theories of curriculum construction as they apply to the church school (1944)
  • Sprague, Ruth Louise. The use of biography in Christian education (1944)
  • Beck, Mary Alice. Training leaders for a summer caravan: the workshop approach for leadership education in the local church (1945)
  • Knight, Barbara. Hymnody for adolescents (1945)
  • Ozaki, Shigeo. Dynamics for Christian education in group-life and leadership (1945)
  • Walker, Everette L. Counseling relations of students and faculty members in five midwestern colleges (1945)
  • Wiencke, Gertrude Pearl. Christian folk celebration as a medium for religious education (1945)
  • Evans, Pauline Faye. Religious radio in the state of Oklahoma (1946)
  • Greaves, Doris Gertrude. Length for adolescents (1946)
  • Yoder, Colleen Sue. Communication incarnate: a Christian publication communicates itself. (1969)
  • Kreml, Anne Lee. Understanding conflict in the normal family actualization (1970)
  • Schwenke, John R. Training social workers in an era of ferment: with particular reference to social work education at the bachelor’s degree level (1970)

2003-2010

  • Henderson, Tolonda. Love ain’t worried: amplifying the lesbian voice of womanist theology through the blues (2003)
  • McCorn, Lester Agyei. A charge to keep: amplifying the lesbian voice of womanist theology through the blues (2003)
  • Jimenez, Elena Maria. Sexual identity as constructed in and through text: slash fanfiction and writing communities (2005)
  • Kotsko, Adam. Literature in secret: an impossible filiation by Jacques Derrida – translation and commentary (2005)
  • Anderson, John E. Young adults and the contemporary protestant church : strategies for youth retention from the Taize community (2008)
  • Chafen, Sandra J. Follow the leader (2008)
  • Davey, Joshua. Postholiness: towards a renewed historical identity for the Church of God (Anderson, IN) (2008)
  • Fernádez, Carlos R. What is it about the flesh? (2008)
  • Roncolato, Carolyn. From power to presence: a theological examination of the doctrine of divine omnipotence in light of domestic and sexual violence (2008)
  • Yoon, Deuk Hyoung. Theological reflection on pastors with compulsive personality disorder: a case study based on environments in Korea (2008)
  • Arthur, Kenneth. The queer Christ: recognizing ourselves in the divine (2009)
  • Bohanan, Adam S. Remarks by the president: religion and rhetoric in George W. Bush’s service academy commencement addresses (2009)
  • Erickson, Jenna N. A coalesced creation: revisiting the doctrine of creatio ex nihilo in order to revive our water depths (2009)
  • Lane, Latanya. Animal connection: Genesis 37-38 (2009)
  • Remaly, Heather C. And they shall have dominion: animal suffering and Christian responsibility (2009)
  • Schroeder, Tasha. Thinness is next to Godliness: evangelical diet literature and eating disorders in women (2009)
  • Credit, Torrance. The last day: an examination of the Holy Qur’an and its connections to the Holy Bible (2010)
  • Damholt, Ronald J. Rightwiseness and justice: a tale of translation (2010)
  • Ewing, Stephanie. Revolutionary mysticism: how Christian mystical traditions can inspire liberation (2010)
  • Kolkmeier, James. Ritual in crisis/crisis in ritual (2010)
  • Lee, Sun Ok. Enhancing pastoral care for intercultural families: emerging challenges for the church (2010)
  • Scurlock, Quinton G. Biblical hermeneutics of the Black church: the shift from liberation to oppression (2010)

2011-2017

  • Blackmore, Brian. Pedagogy for speaking bodies: teaching from the religious studies classroom in public schools (2011)
  • Bohanan, Becky. Calling it “crappy sex”: the influence of Christianity’s heteronormativity in American culture (2011)
  • Byon Hyonju. An unnamed woman who ought to vanish to create a liberationist narrative: a postcolonial reading of John 7:53-8:11 (2011)
  • Calberg, Eric. Meeting the expectations of the Adama: early Israel’s subsistence identity (2011)
  • Powell, Sharon L. The embodiement/(dis)embodiment of canon: maps, bodies, boundaries, and theological knowledge (2011)
  • Self, Jessica Kelly. In the shadow of the cross: consensually transgressing in worship settings (2011)
  • Mowry, Tyler. The Canaanite Bible: Or the curious case of the Palestinian Christian hermeneutics (2012)
  • Moulos, Kimberly. Dis-covering Daly under the cloak of essentialism: A multiplicitous and nonlinear perspectives on Mary Daly (2012)
  • Perry, Brock A. The Futurity of Queer Theology: Toward an effective approach to queerness and divinity (2012)
  • Keller, Katelyn. Zion’s Strength: an analysis of the feminine Zion metaphors (2013)
  • Mitchell, Aram. A political soteriology of survival: apocalyptic maneuvers in the Good Lorde’s plan for salvation (2013)
  • Ruoyu Xu (Echo). Walter Benjamin – “Aura” atmosphere and classic harmony (2013)
  • Bedar, Louie. Contemplating unconscious ethics and violence: a Maatian suggestion (2014)
  • Crum, Timothy Laden. Just say ‘maybe!’ to drugs: understanding the Episcopal Church and drugs through storytelling, history and scripture (2014)
  • Hairston, Sarah M. Reading against rape, reading for healing (2014)
  • Loring-Albright, Heather. Rocking the cradle: a relational analysis of domestic childcare work to inspire community innovation (2014)
  • Minnaar, Rachel. The responsibility of American graduate theological schools and seminaries to provide disability support services for students with Asperger Syndrome and Autistic Spectrum Disorder (2014)
  • Scott, Jacob. Three seemingly disparate elements walk into a bar: the Queer eschatology of humor and stand-up comedy (2014)
  • Avino, Steve. The power of Christ: exploring the theology of Christian Ritual Magic (2015)
  • Alexander, Elizabeth ‘Liz.’ Black women, gun violence, and the Black Church: towards a theology and culture of safety (2015)
  • Garrett, Jamel. Theology on wax: identifying theological, sociopolitical, and cultural intersections between Hip Hop music and theology (2015)
  • Godwin, William Garard. What is “Religion”? religious diversity and the U.S. Supreme Court’s Judeo-Christian definitional framework in Free Exercise Clause Jurisprudence
    (2015)
  • Jo, Jae Seon. The overlap of the feast motifs of Passover and tabernacles in John (2015)
  • McKinney, Richard ‘R’ Marshall. Liminality: trans identity as God’s identity (2015)
  • Birden, Donald L. The patenting and commercialization of Gympen™ (2016)
  • Birden, Marilyn. Establishing community banking within the United Church of Christ Illinois Conference (2016)
  • Burton, Ariel Shahar. Refracting lenses of liberation: women’s access to communal ritual in Jewish and Islamic law (2016)
  • Kim, Jin-Sun. Karl Rahner’s theology of art: on seeing as a religious act (2016)
  • Knight, Faatimah. Finding female personhood in Islamic texts on marriage (2016)
  • Lawrence, Lynda Holiday. Pedagogy of a global theological academy: taking the progressive response to the next level (2016)
  • Rose, Gregory. Wilderness as a pathway to the divine (2016)
  • Nuccio, Anthony. Reading the fife and thought of Dorothy Day today (2017)
  • Rodriquez, Gerardo. Mark 8:22-26 and the ayahu asca ceremony: an interpretation with ecological postcolonial and queer lenses (2017)
  • Stallworth, Dewayne R. Common religious heritage: ingenuity, enslavement and the African ideal of existential togetherness (2017)
  • Tuňon, Alvaro Enrique. Calvinism and common grace: finding tulips in God’s creation (2017)