Doctoral Dissertations

The doctoral dissertation, written under faculty supervision for both the Ph.D. and Th.D. degrees, constitutes the basis upon which the student is able to claim "an original contribution to the field of study," the fundamental criterion for the earning of either of these academic doctorates. The following roster is a listing of dissertations successfully defended before our faculty. Anyone wishing to contact the author of any dissertation should communicate with the Office of Student Services at the Foundation. The Foundation, in turn, will contact the author with the inquirer's email address for direct communication.

Dissertations by category

Church History
Hispanic Ministries
Islamic Studies
Information Sciences
Music and Liturgy
Mediation
Pastoral Studies
Scripture
Theology and Spirituality

Church History
Student Name	Dissertation Title	Year of Defense	Degree
Allen, J. Timothy	A Man of Some Means: Ambitous Values, Evangelical Theology, and Reverend James O'Kelly	2004	Ph.D.
Bush, Josephine R.	Eucharist: The Continuity of Catholic Teaching Between the Early Church Fathers and Early 21st Century Magisterium	2005	Ph.D.
Carroll, Sheila	Brigit of Ireland: She Could Hang Her Cloak on a Sunbeam	1994	Ph.D.
Daubert, David Dennison	The Historic Episcopate for North American Lutherans: Lessons from Tanzania in a Historical Context	2000	Ph.D.
Duffy, Edward F.	The Toura Papyrus of Didymus the Blind's Commentary on Job: An Original Translation with Introduction and Commentary	2002	Ph.D.
Gittens, Peter Winston	Mary More or Less: A Study of the Anglican and Catholic Mariology of John Henry Newman in Nineteenth Centrury England	2007	Ph.D.
Hill, Jesse David	Beyond Soup, Soap, and Salvation: American Indian Ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America 1988-2001	2008	Ph.D.
Leong, Francis J.	The Mission Vision of Father Bernard Francis Meyer: The Promotion of the Laity	2000	Ph.D.
MacDonald, David R.	The Transit of the Anglican Mind the the Maryland Colony: Thomas Bray and the Bray Libraries of Christ of Church Durham	2006	Ph.D.
Mathew, John Theckekolathu	Messianic Sannithyam of Malankara Mar Thoma Ezharappallikal: A Paradigmatic Pre-Christendom Christus Praesens	2007	Th.D.
McConkey, David Benton	Bishop Michael Bolton Furse (1870-1955) and the Waning of the "Catholic Moment" in Anglicanism	2008	Ph.D.
Meehan, Maureen A.	The Historical and Biblical Aspect of the Priesthood of Christ in and Through the Church History	2000	Ph.D.
Olson, Joseph W.	Jesuit Inculturation in the New World: Experiments in Missions of 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries	2007	Ph.D.
Raab, Klaus W.	A Study of Leichenpredigten in Jena, Germany, During the Period from 1580 to 1630	1996	Ph.D.
Richardson, Delores F.	The History of the Seventh Episcopal District	2004	Ph.D.
Staggs, John H.	St. Francis of Assisi and his Understanding of the Cross	2003	Ph.D.
Hispanic Ministries
Student Name	Dissertation Title	Year of Defense	Degree
Acevedo Nieves, Juan A.	El Piloto y el Neomaltusianismo en Puerto Rico	2002	Ph.D.
Casanova-Ramos, Fernando	Pneumatology of Liberation: Attention to the Risk of Immanentism in the Latin American Theology of Liberation	2002	Ph.D.
Hernandez, Ana Ivette	Evangelizacion de las Americas Exito O Fracaso	2003	Ph.D.
Rodas, Mauro	Mary in the Modern Church: Her Human Condition Changing the Life of a Hispanic Community in Indianapolis, Indiana	1999	Ph.D.
Islamic Studies
Student Name	Dissertation Title	Year of Defense	Degree
Abadalla, Ahmad Abadalghafar	The Relationship between Religion and Politics	2008	Ph.D.
Abdin, Aziz	Renewal and Reform in Understanding Religious Texts: A Necessity for Solving the Current Crisis (Qran and Sonah)	2008	Ph.D.
Abdul-Malik, Ibrahim	Prayer in Islam: A Guide for Beginning Muslims, an Introduction for Non-Muslims	2006	Ph.D.
Agic, Senad	Immigration, Assimilation and Community Building: The Bosnian Experience in North America	2006	Ph.D.
Basyouni, Waleed	Ibn Taymiyya's Theory of "Shared Meaning" and "Overlapping Relation" in the Diving Names and Attributes	2007	Ph.D.
Dawlatzai, Marzia Hashem	Women in Islam: Evident Facts and Baseless Doubts	2008	Ph.D.
Ervondy, Doddy	The Islamic Engineering Science: Past, Present, and Prospect	2005	Ph.D.
Ghoneim, Wagdy	The Divine Shari'a and Humanized Democracy	2008	Ph.D.
Hassanin, Saad Eldin M.K.R.	The Effects of the Prophet’s Surrah on Reforming Individual and Family in Islam	2009	Ph.D.
Meneese, Waleed Edress	Methodology of Sighting the Crescent Moon in Islamic Jurisprudence	2007	Ph.D.
Mohamed, Abdulhakim Ali Muslih	Television’s Impact on Dawa’a	2009	Ph.D.
Negm, Ibrahim	The Implications of Developing Interfaith Understanding via the Exploration of Christianity and the Study of Abraham in the Qur'an and the Bible as Experienced in one Muslim Congregation	2005	Ph.D.
Obeid, Bassam Ibrahim	The Chapter of Yusuf (pbuh) in Light of Narrative Discourse and Critical Analysis	2009	Ph.D.
Shahin, Omar Ahmad	The Islamic Law of Inheritance	2007	Ph.D.
Information Sciences
Student Name	Dissertation Title	Year of Defense	Degree
Khan, Mohammed A.S.	Application of Knowledge Management in Library Settings	2007	Ph.D.
Tucker, Dennis C.	The Sutomation of Congregational Libraries: Pertinent Issues	2002	Ph.D. Foundation House/Oxford
Music and Liturgy
Student Name	Dissertation Title	Year of Defense	Degree
Barber III, Philip E.	Gifts and Creatures: The Reformation Doctorine of the Eucharistic Presence Exhibited in the Anglican Liturgy of the Lords Supper	2005	Ph.D.
Basker, Jacqueline Taylor	The Significance of the Cloud as a Symbol in Early Christian Art: A Case Study of the Mosaics of Sts. Cosmas and Damian in Rome	2004	Ph.D.
Bustamante, Francisco R.	Sensing the Sacred: Roots Rituals, Rhythms, Responses	1996	Ph.D.
Kirby, Marc Daniel	The Proper Chants of the Paschal Triduum in the Graduale Romanum: A Study in Liturgial Theology	2002	Ph.D.
MacArthur, Charles Patrick	The Artist as Tehologian: A Visual Exploration of Religious Symolism with a Concluding Chapter on the Work and Thought of Pieter Bruegel the Elder	2001	Ph.D.
Plummer, John Paul	The Many Paths of the Independent Sacramental Movement: A National Study of its Liturgy, Doctrine, and Leadership	2005	Ph.D.
Roussakis, Peter E.	Confessing the Compendium: Praying the Lord's Prayer as Confessing Faith	1998	Ph.D.
Schwab, Betty Lynn	Is our God too Pale: Contemporary Christian Worship in a Multi-Faith World	2004	Ph.D.
Smith-Criddle, Linda Corcoran	Ritual, Religion, and Ronald: The Power of the Liturgical in the Church and Marketplace	2000	Ph.D.
Swiss, Thomas Michael	Sacramental Anointing of the Sick, A Post-Modern Analysis: A Rite/Right of the Laity?	2001	Ph.D.
Thomas, L. Everett	Listening to Artists: A Source Book on the Creative Process	1998	Ph.D.
Mediation
Student Name	Dissertation Title	Year of Defense	Degree
Hope, Mary Kendall	Judging Mediation: An Assessment of the Effectiveness of Mediation Programs in North Carolina from the Perspective of Select District Court Judges	2006	Ph.D.
Pastoral Studies
Student Name	Dissertation Title	Year of Defense	Degree
Addison, Howard A.	The Enneagram and Kabbalah: Reading Your Soul	2000	Ph.D.
Andueza Jaunsaras, Alfred	Teologi a Del Cuerpo y de la Sexualidad en las Catequesis de Juan Pablo II	2004	Ph.D.
Angus, Joslyn L.	The Impact of Pan-African Immigrants on the Christian Church in the United States of America	1998	Ph.D.
Ardley, Evan Lloyd	Throught the Eye of a Needle	2001	Ph.D.
Bailey, Emmanuel F.	Caring for Those who Grieve: Practical Dimensions of the Role of Grief Ministry for Pastors and Other Caring Persons	2006	Ph.D.
Baxer, Joseph J.	Robert Vachon, Humanist: A Journey Toward an Intercultural Way of Life	2004	Ph.D.
Bersin, Ruth H.	Community-based Resettlement: Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Asylees Rebuild their Lives with the Help of Congregations and Community	2008	Ph.D.
Boylan, Martin M.	The Presumption is Love	1996	Ph.D.
Burriss II, George B.	The Law of Attraction: From the Kingdom and Will of God to Quantum Physics and New Science	2007	Ph.D.
Caron, Judith A.	Euthanasia as a Vision of Wellness: An Ethical Reshaping of the Dying and Death Process	1998	Ph.D.
Carr, Michael Leo	The Psychological Importance of the Spiritual in the Recovery Process of the PTSD Vietnam Veteran	1996	Ph.D.
Chan, Henry Albert	Leadership	1994	Ph.D.
Chigbo, Kenneth Okey	The Unheard Cry of the Igbo People: A Study of Meaning in Abraham Joshua Heschel	2008	Ph.D.
Christian, William E.	Clergy Health and Congregational Wellness: A Partnership for Wellbeing	2008	Ph.D.
Coombs, Marie Theresa	Mystery Hidden Yet Revealed	1996	Ph.D.
Couturier, David B.	Formation for the Fraternal Economy in the Capuchin-Franciscan Order: A Psychological Analysis	2005	Ph.D.
DelGado, Michael A.	The Lakota Heart: A Gift for Seven Generations	2002	Ph.D.
Devereaux, Thomas W.	Discerning the Stages of Moral Development	2007	Ph.D.
Donlon, Kevin Francis	Possibilities in Reclaiming an Anglican Catechetical Method	1998	Ph.D.
Dowling, Jerome Paul	The Psychology of Presbyter; The Context of the Presbyter; A Call to Spiritual Direction	1997	Ph.D.
Dvorscak, James	Organization Development in a Local Catholic Parish	1999	Ph.D.
Ellerby, Jonathan H.	Indigenous Integrative Phenomenology: Integrating Indigenous Epistemologies in Traditional Healing Research	2007	Ph.D.
Foster, Randal Arthur	Integrating Spirituality and Psychology in Vocational Discernment: Selected Psychospiritual Factors and their Effect on the Career Decision-Making Process	2008	Ph.D.
Garces-Torres, Gilberto Goen	La Mision Ad-Gentes de la Iglesia y el Anuncio del Kerygma a la Cultura Bambara de Mali-Africa Occidental	2006	Th.D.
Gargiulo, Gerald J.	Psyche and Soul	2004	Ph.D. Foundation House/Oxford
Gilbert, Richard B.	Healing the Holy Helpers: Healthy Clergy for the Third Millennium	2003	Ph.D.
Glisson, William	A Dialectic-Humanitarian Discussion on the Transformation on Humanity	2004	Ph.D.
Gorman, William Anthony	Suffering and Relationship: Pastoral Perspectives on Vietnam Veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder	2000	Ph.D.
Graber, Ann V.	Viktor Frankl's Logotherapy: Method of Choice in Ecumenical Pastoral Psychology	2002	Ph.D.
Gutiérrez Herrera, Hayr	Escatologia en Puerto Rico: Los Cuadernos del Instituto Diocesano de Pastoral de Mayagüez	2007	Ph.D.
Hayden, Joanne S.	Are Elders in Residential Care Concerned About how Much They Spend Their Day?	2001	Ph.D.
Hernandez, Robert C.	An Approach to Counseling Through Pastoral Psychology to Enable a low Self-Concept Individual to Become a High Self-Esteem Person	2005	Ph.D.
Holton, Anne M.	A Liberating Spirituality for Religious Educators	2000	Ph.D.
Houston, Jean	Jump Time	2003	Ph.D.
Igwilo, Peter C.	Examination of Factors Impeding Significant Reduction in Spousal Violence in Southeastern Nigeria: Pastoral Psychology Approach	2009	Ph.D.
Jaramillo, Leonardo	Analisis del desarollo de las vocaciones sacerdotales en Colombia y sus motivaciones prevalentes	2008	Ph.D.
Jenkins, William Michael	The Fundamentals of Counseling in Micronesia: A Working Model for the Certification of Indigenous Counselors in the Pacific Basin	2007	Ph.D.
Kallani, Joe	Be Angry but do not Sin	1995	Ph.D.
Kane, Mary M.	Transference and the Spiritual Journey	2006	Ph.D.
Kelly, Brian F.	A Return to the Transcendent: Rediscovering an Essential Element in Formulating a Psychology of Human Development Within Systems Theory	1996	Ph.D.
Kerrigan, Sharon	The Impact of the Asclepius Cult on the Christian Healing Tradition	1997	Ph.D.
LaBonte, Stephen L.	The Relationship of Religion, Religious Symbolism and Religious Professionals to Dissociative Identity Disorder with Implications for Treatment	1996	Ph.D.
Laha Jr., Robert R.	Leadership: A New Pardigm for Today's Pastor	2000	Ph.D.
Lehrer, Patricia A.	The Journey Inwards: Crafting the Christian Self Through Autobiography, Dreams and Visions	2008	Ph.D.
López Doña ,Felix P.	Cuando solo saber leer y escribir no es suficiente: Un análisis del impacto de la cruzada nacional de alfabetización de Nicaragua con relación al bienestar de la población en termino de la situación económica, las condiciones de salud, y la reducción de la delincuencia	2008	Ph.D.
López, Wilfredo Mora	Características Cristológicas para una pastoral juvenile	2008	Ph.D.
Malone, Janet	The Spirituality of Nonviolence in Transforming the Energies of Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Conflict and Anger	2005	Ph.D.
Miller, Whitney G.	Psychomysticism: Toward a Method of Contemplative Counseling	1996	Ph.D.
Moreland Jr., Raymond Theodore	The Beloved Journey: A Psychospiritual Study of Persons Living, Struggling and Dying with HIV/AIDS	1997	Ph.D.
Morse, James H.	Using a Standard Psychological Instrument to Asses Spiritual Growth	1999	Ph.D.
Ngo, Peter Thang C.	Tribunal in the New Millennium: Theology, Spirituality, Leadership, Collaboration and Strategies for Effective Pastoral Ministry	2005	Ph.D.
Norris, Lyddon Kendrick	The Psychological Meaning of Christmas	2006	Ph.D.
Odikanoro, Vincent Ibe	Culture Shock: The Challenges of living at the Crossroads of Two Cultures: Case Study	2009	Ph.D.
Olisah, Amaka F.	Reshaping the Vocation of Religious Women in Nigeria	2006	Ph.D.
Quiñones-Murillo, Luis Hernando	Justicia Social en Gerardo Valencia Cano	2008	Ph.D.
Ramos, José Lázaro	Living Ecumenical Experience in the Defense of Peace, Justice and Fraternity in Vieques, Puerto Rico: An Ecumenical Experience of Testimony and Service	2004	Ph.D.
Ross, E. Gordon	The Christian Life is a Daily Baptism	1996	Ph.D.
Ruiz Velez, Norma S.	P. Jose Kentenich: Nuevo Orden Social y Globalizacion	2005	Th.D.
Schwab, Donald Francis	Therapist as Priest: The Spiritual Dimensions of a Therapeutic Relationship	2004	Ph.D.
Scraper, Randy L.	The Application of Franklian Psychology in the Establishment of a Meaning Matrix for Christian Spiritual Formation	2008	Ph.D.
Seo, Byeong Chea	Theology of Lay Pastors Ministry	2006	Ph.D.
Shuster, Steven B.	Reframing Through the Power of Narrative: An Emerging Psychology of Preaching	2006	Ph.D.
Shyne Jr., O'Neal	A God of Encouragement in the African-American Tradition	2005	Ph.D.
Stanley, Verdree Blake	Promoting Spiritual and Religious Living in Older African-Americans in the City of Newark: A Descriptive Study	2004	Ph.D.
Tadman-Robins, Christopher	Understanding Suicide-The Creation of a Pastoral Resource for the use of Clergy and Laity Incorporating Further Evidence of the Nature of Self Harm Via Critical Personal Narrative (Part 1, 2, and 3)	2000	Ph.D.
Thannickal, Joseph	Transformation of Meaning as a Paradigm for Ministerial Leadership Today: A Pastoral Psychological Reflection	2006	Ph.D.
Thullbery, Marion F.	The Stone that was Rejected: An Exemplary Guide for the Psychiatric Institutional Chaplain	2008	Ph.D.
Twomey, Gerald Sean	The Evolution of the Doctrine of the "Preferential Option for the Poor" In Official Catholic Social Teaching from John XXIII to John Paul II	2004	Ph.D.
Uchem, Rose Nkechinyere	Overcoming Women's Subordination in the Igbo African Culture and in the Catholic Church	2000	Ph.D.
Ullrich, Karl P.	The Relationship of Core Values to Impact of Event Symptoms in the Survivors of Sudden Traumatic Loss	1998	Ph.D.
Vázquez Rodríguez, Vilma Ivette	Inteligencias Múltiples y Pedagogia de la Fe	2008	Ph.D.
Wall, Terence E.	Conversion: Psychological Convergence and Christian Integration	2002	Ph.D.
Winghong, Charles Chiew	Engaging a Brief Counseling Approach as a Model for Pastoral Ministry in the Congregational Setting	2007	Ph.D.
Winter-Green, Krysten	HIV/AIDS-Confrontation with Being	1995	Ph.D.
Wolfe III, James Owen	American Baptist Women in Pastoral Ministry: A Contemporary Survey	2007	Ph.D.
Young, Doris	The Future of Health Care: A Christian Model	2000	Ph.D.
Young, William T.	Psychological Aspects of Pastoral Ministry: A Chinese Perspective	1996	Ph.D.
Scripture
Student Name	Dissertation Title	Year of Defense	Degree
Aaron, Daryl N.	Exhortation and Deity: The Relationship Between God's Saving Work and Human Accountability in Paul's Letter to the Philippians	2002	Ph.D.
Blumenfeld, Donald E.	Easter Encounters an Examination of the Resurrection Appearances in the Gospels of Luke and John	1996	Ph.D.
Humphrey, Robert L.	Literary Structure and Message in Mark: A Rhetorical Analysis	2000	Ph.D.
Porto, Mark Patrick Anthony	Remembering with Jesus: A Contemporary Understanding of Luke’s Soteriology	2009	Ph.D.
Rusconi, Richard A.	Mark 12:28:34: A Close Reading	2008	Ph.D.
Smith, Thomas E.	The Domestication of Transcendence: Paul's Christian Halakha in Corinthians 7 on Celibacy, Marriage, and Divorce	2005	Ph.D.
Sweet-Hansen, Barbara	Hacia una Conceptualizacion Interdisciplinar de Parabolas Escogidas de Jesus de Nazaret Como Instrumentos Pedagogicos	2006	Th.D.
Watts, D. Jonathan	The Forensic Reconstruction of a Good Story: Gospel Telling to a Digital Culture	2005	Ph.D.
Wilson, Franklin Arthur	Walker Percy's use of the Bible: Colliberative End	2006	Ph.D.
Worthing, Carol M.	The Anointing of Jesus - A Christological Necessity	2002	Ph.D.
Theology and Spirituality
Student Name	Dissertation Title	Year of Defense	Degree
Afanador Kafuri, Hernan	Teología de la Purificación de Argimiro Ruano	2008	Ph.D.
Anandappa, Mahendra	The Highly Individuated Mahatma Gandhi	1999	Ph.D.
Anderson, J. Curtis	Authority, Rationality, and Tradition in Karl Barth and Alasdair Macintyre	2001	Ph.D.
Babcock, Theodore S.	The Journey from Inclusion to Exclusion: The development of baptism as a requirement to receive Holy Communion 40CE-200CE	2009	Th.D.
Blair, Barbara Templeton	The Divine Matrix: Organism as Metaphor of the Cosmos and its Spiritual Significance for the Human Community	2000	Ph.D.
Boyd, Stephen J.	The Multifacet Spiritual Quotient Inventory (MSQI)	2008	Ph.D.
Buehler, David A.	Conflict, Convivencia, and Conversion in Medieval Minds: Al-Ghazal, Maimonides, and Llull	2005	Ph.D.
Cabán Cáceres, Gerardo	Fenomenología de la experiencia de Dios en San Agustín en el Libro VIII de la Obra de Las Confesiones	2008	Ph.D.
Castro-Cuba, Isaac Enrique Barineza	Aportes de la Doctrina de San Agustín a la Pedagogía y Catequesis Contemporánea	2005	Ph.D.
Cheng Sau Ting, Peter	Macquarrie's Christology of Being: Holistic Humanity of Freedom, Love and Responsibility	2008	Th.D.
Colon, Jorge R.	Teologia de la Redencion	2007	Ph.D.
Corcoran, John Anthony	Augustinus Contra Donatistas	1996	Ph.D.
Cox, R. David	Priesthood in a New Millennium: Towards an Understanding of Anglican Presbyterate for the Twenty-First Century	2001	Ph.D. Foundation House/Oxford
Culbertson, Thomas Leon	Personal Salvation and Humanity's Redemption: A Vision of Redeemed History	2000	Ph.D.
Dannals, Robert Samuel	Aspects of Imitatio Christi in the Moral Christology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer	2005	Ph.D.
Dufresne, Edward R.	The Joyful Exchange: A Christian Spirituality from the Writings of Martin Luther	1998	Ph.D.
El-Hillal, Mohammad F.	Stem-Cell Cloning: Biomedical-Theological Perspectives	2009	Ph.D.
Etheridge, Carrine	The Biology of Belief: Evolving Spiritual Dimensions in the Human Species	2001	Ph.D.
Fowler, Susan Isabella	Community Leadership: Spiritual Foundations For Social Transfomation	2004	Ph.D.
García, Héctor Moreno	La Sagrada Eucaristia, Piedras de Tropiezo en su Torno, y Elementos Relacionados	2007	Ph.D.
Grace, Gerard A.	Death-A Celebration in Omega: Towards a Christian Spirituality of Death	2006	Ph.D.
Guerrero, Juan Eduardo Pulido	Wesley, El Pentacostalismo y La Experiencia Vistos Desde América Latina	2008	Ph.D.
Helman, Charles Jeffrey	The Emerging Revival of Sacramental Healing: An Incarnational Theology	2007	Ph.D.
Hunt, C. Anthony	Analysis of the Thinking of Howard Thurman and Martin Luther King, Jr.	2001	Ph.D.
Kirbas, Paul J.	Navigating Through a Stipulated Freedom: Discovering a Guiding Biblical Compass for the Journey of Biotechnology	2007	Ph.D.
Kobus, Milton Michael	The Doctrine of the Trinity According to Karl Rahner	2008	Th.D.
Lewis, James	Paths of Exile: Columbian Narrative and the Praxis of Iona	2004	Ph.D.
Lind, Douglass Theodore	The Relationship of the Work of Discernment to the Exercise of Authority in the Life of the Benedictines and the Church of England	2007	Th.D.
López-Sierra, Héctor E.	Divina Transdiciplinariedad	2005	Ph.D.
Marinaro-Gaboury, Eleonora V.	The life of the Spirit in the Convergent Points of Psychology, Spirituality and Dreamwork	2008	Ph.D.
Massart, James D.	The Dynamic Quest for Openness, Freedom and Creativity Through Self-Transcendece: Psychology Meets Spirituality in Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" and John Macquarries Search for Full Humanity	1997	Ph.D.
McKinnon, Margaret Mary	The Spiritual Path of Contemplative Love in Social Action: Teresa of Avila and The Interior Castle and Therese of Lisieux and Story of a Soul	2008	Ph.D.
Moffett-Moore, David	Peregrine: Life as Pilgrimage, A view from Celtic Spirituality	2007	Ph.D.
Mulvihill, David James	Catholic Volunteers: Theology and Practice, with Special Reference to the 1997 Papal Instruction ‘Eclesiae De Mysterio’	2008	Ph.D.
Mulvihill, John Edward	Philosophy of Evolution	2008	Ph.D.
Murasso, Jeremiah N.	Entelechy in the Second Millennium: Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas Revisited	2000	Ph.D.
Naughton, William M.	Juan Luis Segundo's "Church": A Vehicle of Social Change	1999	Ph.D.
Nicholas, Joseph Emanuel	God's Chosen People: Example or Exception?	1998	Ph.D.
Nidever, Rodney James	Evangelical Pastors and The Problem of Evil: Theodicy, Practical Theology and an Independent Study	2008	Ph.D.
O'Neill, John P.	Theological Questions Regarding the Ministry of Deacons: What Makes this Ministry Unique	2006	Ph.D.
Panotes, Wilfrido	Salvation of Non-Christians: Significance of the Man Jesus, the Church and Sacraments	2004	Ph.D.
Perez Doglio, Walter Eduardo	Issues of the Reformation in the Light of Church and Society Today	1999	Ph.D.
Reagan, Daniel Sean	Unity in Diversity: Overcoming Differences Among the Body of Christ Issue of Sola Scriptura and Sola Ecclesia	2006	Ph.D.
Rivera Rivera, Victor Manuel	Un Proyecto de Vida Humano-Transcendental	2007	Ph.D.
Seybold-Clegg, Jane	Toward a Theology of Work: A Model of Theology and Spirituality in Relation to the Corporate Community	2001	Ph.D.
Silk, Jane	A New Communion: An Investigation of Women and Men Awakening to Oneness in God in Christ Risen	2005	Ph.D.
Soberal, Isabel M. Román	En Busca del Más Allá (In Search of the Beyond)	2009	Ph.D.
Southwick, Jay S.	From Whom All Blessings Flow	1996	Ph.D.
Suh, Ignatius	The Confucian-Christian Dialogue: A Comparative Theology from the YI Dynasty in Korea	2007	Th.D.
Taylor, Raymond G.	The Validity of Religious Experience	1994	Ph.D.
Thomas, Michael O.	The Stem Cell Debate: A Comparison Between the Ethical Ideologies of the Religious and the Medical Communitites	2007	Ph.D.
Torres, Irma Hernandez	Cosmocardia: The Heart of the Cosmic Christ, the Universal Sacrament	1999	Ph.D.
Trinidad Hernandez, Angel M.	El Monofisismo: Una Constante en la Tradicion Cristiana	2006	Ph.D.
Valentine, Ruthann	Florence Nightingale and the Western Mystical Tradition	2008	Ph.D.