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Ethics and Practical TheologyNameThesis titleSupervisorsAlicia Mendonca-RichardsMystical approaches to economics in the AnthropoceneProfessor Rachel Muers and Dr David GrummettAndreas BernbergTheopolitical discernment in ecclesial practiceDr Ulrich Schmiedel and Dr Joshua RalstonCarolina Sanz de la FuenteThe Transhumanist Dilemma and the 21st-century Human-Machine PathosDr David Grumett and Rev Dr Michael FullerElisa KochFragile Bodies, Fragile Boundaries: Towards a Comparative Theology of VulnerabilityDr Ulrich Schmiedel and Dr Hannah HoltschneiderJames GastonSaturating a Disenchanted World: De Lubac, Balthasar, Marion and the Call for a Theological AestheticDr David Grumett and Professor Rachel MuersJohnny LaiReading Oliver O’Donovan’s Theology of ‘The Common Good’ in the Context of Hong KongProfessor Rachel Muers and Dr David GrumettJosie GwinFaith, Resilience and Mitigating Symptoms of Trauma in Individuals and Communities Impacted by Crisis and Disaster through the Development of ResilienceDr Bethany Sollereder and Professor Liz GrantJustin EllerAcompañamiento: The Significance of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's Accompaniment Model on Church Leadership and Mission in a Contemporary ContextProfessor Rachel Muers and Dr Ulrich SchmiedelRyan BennettThe Rise of the Christian Socialist Movement in the 20th Century with attention on William Temple and Dorothy DayDr David Grumett and Dr Ulrich SchmiedelStephen DolanHungarian Political Theology: The Fundamental Law as the foundation of Christian Democracy in Orbán's HungaryDr Ulrich Schmiedel and Dr David GrumettStephen NoonScotland's 'new politics' as a politics of loveDr Ulrich Schmiedel and Dr David GrumettTiffany ButlerPre-Nicene and Post-Bolshevik Theologies of MovementDr Ulrich Schmiedel and Dr Alexandra SmithHebrew and Old Testament StudiesName Thesis titleSupervisors Connor BoydA New Take on the New Covenant: The Reception of Jeremiah 31:31–34 in the Septuagint and Dead Sea ScrollsDr Anja Klein, Professor Matthew Novenson, and Professor Timothy LimEmily AllsoppA Feminist-Literary Critical Analysis of the Female Body in the Reproductive Metaphors of IsaiahDr Anja Klein and Professor Timothy LimIan EwanThe Function of Qohelet's Consumption LanguageDr Suzanna MillarKaren E PrestonSpatiality in the Book of RuthDr Anja Klein and Dr Suzanna MillarLuis A. Quiñones RomanSexual and Gender-Based Violence: A Reading of The Cuneiform and Biblical Laws in Narratives Materials (Genesis, Judges, and 2 Samuel)Dr Anja Klein and Dr Suzanna MillarMartial BonvillainMarch on My Soul with Strength – The Enduring Efficacy of the Song of Deborah in the Hebrew BibleDr Anja Klein and Dr Suzanna MillarRae Fujimori Dr Suzanna MillarHistory of ChristianityNameThesis titleSupervisorsBarbara F BradleyThe Possibilities of the Immaculate Conception Dogma in the Catholic Feminist ImaginationDr Sara Parvis and Dr David GrumettCaroline CollinsThe Devil in The Marquis de Sade and Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Literature From Periods of Political RevolutionProfessor Alison Jack, Dr Felicity Loughlin and Dr Alexandra SmithDavid TruschelHonoring the Emperor: Reception of Conciliar and Imperial Themes in the Lutheran ReformationDr Simon Burton and Dr Felicity LoughlinEmily BaylorThe Hydra: Social Purity in Britain, 1870-1914Professor Alison Jack and Dr Felicity LoughlinEmma MavinThe Wound of Love: Erotic and Kenotic Pain in the Theology of John of the CrossDr Simon Burton, Dr Sara Parvis, and Dr PJ LennonGillian Le FevreRepresentations of Women in the Exegetical Fragments of HippolytusDr Philippa Townsend and Dr Sara ParvisKent PetersCategorizing Christian and Roman Identities in Ancient Latin Apologetic TraditionDr Philippa Townsend and Dr Sara ParvisIslamic Studies and Christian-Muslim RelationsNameThesis titleSupervisorsAhmad HakamChristian and Islamic Religious Education Teacher Training Institutions: Case Studies of Perceiving Religious OthersProfessor Mona Siddiqui and Dr Shadaab RahemtullaAch Fatayillah MursyidiIslam and Science in Indonesia: Islamic Reconciliation of Darwinian Evolution in Nahdlatul Ulama and MuhammadiyahDr Shadaab Rahemtulla and Professor Mark HarrisAnna BirawiThe journey to God - an exploration of the cultivation of faith in the Christian and Islamic traditionsDr Joshua RalstonCaleb GillelandRoadblocks and Possibilities in Muslim and Baha’i Dialogue with ChristianityDr Joshua Ralston and Professor Matthew NovensonEmmanuel Kwame TetteyTheological and Developmental Implications of Church-based Financial Institutions in Ghana in the Light of Islamic Finance ExperienceDr Joshua Ralston and Dr Barbara BompaniLujain BeruwienNavigating Libyan Isms: Between Islamism, Secularism and FeminismDr Shadaab Rahemtulla and Professor Mona SiddiquiMichael A. HarrisThe Orphan and Adoption Practices among Catholic Christians and Sunni Muslims: Scripture, Tradition, and ExperienceProfessor Mona Siddiqui and Dr David GrumettNathan DeverSpiritual Expats: Missions and the Evangelical Church in the Modern United Arab EmiratesDr Joshua Ralston and Professor Brian StanleyOlly DaviesThe Role and Function of Mosque Space: A Comparative Study of Edinburgh and GlasgowDr Shadaab Rahemtulla and Dr Steven SutcliffePhilip Duncan PetersMonotheism and Christology: Constructing a Contextual Christology for Christian Muslim Dialogue from Luke-ActsDr Joshua Ralston and Dr Matthew NovensonSharaiz ChaudhryIslamic Liberation Theology in Practice: A Comparative Analysis of British Muslims’ Activism Against Class InequalityDr Shadaab Rahemtulla and Dr Joshua RalstonWhitney BuchananMuslim Women Leaders in the United States and GermanyDr Ulrich Schmiedel and Dr Joshua RalstonNew Testament and Christian OriginsName Thesis titleSupervisors Axolile N. M. QinaThe Dilemma of Jesus’ Sacrifice: Towards a Xhosa Christian Hermeneutic for Animal SacrificeProfessor Helen Bond and Professor Emma Wild-WoodCorinne SamuelsonHumble in a Proud World: A Sociorhetorical Comparative Study of Power in Mark, Paul, and CiceroProfessor Paul Foster and Professor Helen BondDaisy AndohLiberating Jesus: Messianism and Racial Justice in the Book of RevelationProfessor Matthew Novenson and Dr Philippa TownsendDaniel LamMetamorphosis in Ancient JudaismProfessor Matthew NovensonDaniel MikkelsenWhat is the specific material of the resurrection body in Paul and how does it affect salvation?Professor Matthew NovensonDavid Z BlackwellThe Gospel of Matthew's Use of the PsalmsProfessor Paul FosterDavid A. BurnettResurrection and the Death of the Gods: Rival Jewish Reception of the Patriarchal Promises and the Argument of 1 Corinthians 15Professor Matthew Novenson and Dr. J. Thomas HewittEdward WongRepresentations of Trauma in the Fourth GospelProfessor Helen Bond and Professor Alison JackFangzhou (Christine) SongThe Christology of the Epistle of BarnabasProfessor Paul Foster and Dr Matthew NovensonHyun Bo Sim Professor Paul FosterJulia MayoThe Women of Acts: Studies in Ancient CharacterizationProfessor Helen Bond and Professor Alison JackKendall A. DavisMessianic Christology according to Luke: "Christos" in Luke and ActsProfessor Matthew Novenson and Professor Alison JackManse RimMessiah and Righteousness In Paul and His ContextProfessor Matthew Novenson and Professor Paul FosterMireia (Mia) Vidal i QuinteroThe Empty Tomb Tradition. Its Origins and Early Development in Light of Ritual Lamentation and Cultural Trauma TheoryProfessor Helen Bond and Dr Suzanna MillarNaomi ReissPrisoners of Christ: Incarceration in Early Christian LiteratureProfessor Matthew Novenson and Dr Philippa TownsendPaul WilsonMigration in the Book of ActsProfessor Helen Bond and Dr Philippa TownsendZachary L. McNealPaul in Nag HammadiProfessor Matthew NovensonReligious Studies/ Study of ReligionsNameThesis titleSupervisorsAnand RanjanOnlife Hinduism: Pilgrimage and Everyday Experiences in Gaya, IndiaDr Arkotong Longkumer and Dr Christopher BarrieCarlos Garcia-JaneIconicity, embodiment, and textualisation in Buddhist textual practicesDr Naomi Appleton and Dr Halle O'NealIshita MahajanNarratives and Nationalism: the village-deities of Kullu, IndiaDr Arkotong Longkumer and Dr Naomi AppletonJames CarrigyUse of Cinema in Jewish Decontextualization 1945-1960Professor Hannah HoltschneiderJoseph SedgwickThe relationship between online and in person activity in the formation of contemporary Scottish Pagans’ religious identitiesDr Steven SutcliffeMarissa ClarkeSensing Yoga BodiesDr Steven Sutcliffe, Dr Linda O Keeffe and Dr Arkotong LongkumerMary BriggsOpaque Citizens: An Exploration of How the Shincheonji Church of Jesus Unsettles the South Korean StateDr Steven Sutcliffe and Dr Arkotong LongkumerRusha JinZhanran's Citations in the Zhiguan fuxing chuanhongjue 止觀輔行傳弘決Dr Naomi Appleton and Professor Joachim GentzSamuel HorsleyThrough the body of the teacher: the pedagogy of religious knowledge in modern postural yogaDr Steven Sutcliffe and Dr Arkotong LongkumerTéa NicolaeThe Goddess's Descent to Earth: In Dialogue with the Reimaginations of the Mahābhārata's DraupadīProfessor Naomi Appleton and Dr. Hephzibah IsraelScience and ReligionNameThesis titleSupervisorsAllan FuricVarieties of theories of the whole in Quantum mechanics and Buddhist philosophy: An intuitive convergence of the interconnectedness of reality?Professor Mark Harris and Rev Dr Michael FullerEdward DeLaquilGod, science, and truth: A signpost theory of truth for science and religionProfessor Mark Harris and Dr Bethany SollerederEsgrid SikahallA Gadamerian Approach to Science and Religion HistoriographiesProfessor Mark Harris and Rev Dr Michael FullerGareth T. RichardsTo what extent can mass-extinctions be reconciled with belief in God?Dr Bethany Sollereder and Rev Dr Michael FullerMarie PrinsThe Role of Religion In Post- and Metamodern Fantasy Literature in Relation to the Disenchantment of the WorldRev Dr Michael Fuller and Dr Linden BicketPaul E. Johnson, Sr.Talking with God: Prayer and Inspiration in the Golden Age of NeuroscienceProfessor Mark Harris and Rev Dr Michael FullerSystematic TheologyNameThesis titleSupervisorsArthur RankinJohn Calvin's Use of the Book of HebrewsDr James Eglinton and Dr Simon BurtonDavid MeinbergGod and the Public World: How Bavinck’s Doctrine of God Shaped his Public TheologyDr James Eglinton and Dr Ulrich SchmiedelHunter NicholsonThe Doctrine of Divine Passibility in the Work of Donald Macleod (1940-)Dr James Eglinton and Dr Simon BurtonIsrael Guerrero LeivaHerman Bavinck’s Reformed piety: covenantal, experiential and holisticDr James Eglinton and Dr Simon BurtonRagaai AtiaReligion Reconsidered: A Contemporary Exploration of Abraham Kuyper’s Calvinist Concept of Religion and Reflections on IslamDr James Eglinton and Dr Joshua RalstonRev Matthew BainesGisbertus Voetius's (1589-1676) Doctrine of Participation: Its Scholastic and Mystical SourcesDr Simon Burton and Dr James EglintonSamuel JacobsThe post-war political theology of the Satmar Rebbe, Rabbi Joel TeitelbaumProfessor Hannah Holtschneider and Dr Joshua RalstonSebastian BjernegårdParticipation and Covenant: Man’s Relation with God in the Theology of Herman BavinckDr James Eglinton and Dr Simon BurtonWorld ChristianityNameThesis titleSupervisors Agana-Nsiire AganaA Digital Theological Investigation of Identity Among Ghana's Christian YouthDr Alexander Chow and Professor Emma Wild-WoodAlison ZilversmitThe Development of "Development"-in-Mission: Christian Transnational Aid in USPG from 1947 to 2020Professor Emma Wild-Wood and Dr Alex ChowDavid Munro LewisTheology and Ecology in Chryssavgis, Maathai and Johnsen: A World Christianity PerspectiveDr Alexander Chow and Professor Emma Wild-WoodDingjian XieJingjiao Theology: Translation, Doctrine and Religious Practice in Tang China (618-907)Dr Alexander Chow and Dr Sara ParvisDongjun SeoThe Search for Interdenominational Co-operation and Unity among Korean Evangelicals, 1945-1997Professor Brian Stanley and Dr Alexander ChowElilo EzungThe Holy Spirit among the Nagas: COntouring Pneumatology in ContextDr Alexander Chow and Dr Arkotong LongkumerG. Ray Burbank IIThe Cross-Cultural Transmission of Evangelical Conversion Theology in Nineteenth-Century Western IndiaDr Alexander Chow and Dr Felicity LoughlinJackie Jia Chyi HwangMigration, Multiple Belonging, and Transnational Chinese Christianity: An Ethnographic Study of Mainland Chinese Students’ Shifting Conception of “Family” as Religious and Cultural Negotiations within Singapore’s Christian CommunitiesProfessor Emma Wild-Wood and Dr Alexander ChowJohn S. MunayerPalestinian Religion: Rethinking Methods and Sources for Palestinian TheologyDr Joshua Ralston and Dr Alex ChowNuam HatzawAn Asian Feminist Theology of In-betweenness from the Perspective of Zomi Migrant WomenProfessor Emma Wild-Wood and Dr Alexander ChowRathiulung Elias KCJisu Krista in the Land of the Rongmei Nagas in Manipur, Northeast IndiaDr Alexander Chow and Dr Arkotong LongkumerVictoria TurnerOvercoming Colonialism and Classism: Exploring Shifting Theologies and Practices of Mission in the Iona Community and Council for World MissionProfessor Brian Stanley and Professor Emma Wild-WoodZihao HeHeavenly Mandate, Demons, and the Killing for the Great Peace: How was the anti-Manchu Violence Constructed in the theology of the Taiping Rebellionn and translated into Practice?Dr Alexander Chow and Professor Jolyon Mitchell This article was published on 2024-03-19