Thesis List
This is a partial list of thesis titles of GTF graduates of academic doctoral programs (Ph.D. and Th.D.). This list includes the student’s name, title of the thesis, year of defense, and degree earned.
- 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. |
| Gonia, Raymond L. | The Patristic Era Church Fathers and Healing: An Examination of the Homilies of Saint John Chrysostom, Saint Augustine, and Saint Gregory the Great Dealing with the Concept of Healing by their Use of Sacred Scripture | 2011 | Th.D. |
| Hill, Jesse David | Beyond Soup, Soap, and Salvation: American Indian Ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America 1988-2001 | 2008 | Ph.D. |
| Hoskins, Steven | Out of All Proportion with the Smallness of Their Numbers: The Continuing Influence of the Anglican Nonjurors | 2010 | Ph.D. |
| Lee, Richard George | The First Great Awakening and its Influence on the Religious, Social, and Governmental Systems of Early America Leading to the American Revolution | 2012 | 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. |
| Sánchez, Susana | Libertos Norteamericanos en Quisqueya: Historia de Fe, Abandono y Redención de una Negritud Atrapada 1776-1889 | 2011 | Ph.D. |
| Spragin, Ore Lee | A Historical Analysis of Faithfulness to the Doctrine of Doing Good: From John Wesley to the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in the 21st Century | 2010 | Th.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. |
| Agosto González, Francisco | Dilema moral sobre el uso científico y terapeútico de las células troncales embrionarias humanas | 2009 | Ph.D. |
| Casanova-Ramos, Fernando | Pneumatology of Liberation: Attention to the Risk of Immanentism in the Latin American Theology of Liberation | 2002 | Ph.D. |
| Colón Torres, Radamés O. | Teología de la comunicación | 2017 | Ph.D. |
| Hernandez, Ana Ivette | Evangelizacion de las Americas Exito O Fracaso | 2003 | Ph.D. |
| Portela, Carmen | Retos de la inmigración y de la inculturación: Integración vs asimilación De huéspedes a anfitriones | 2009 | Ph.D. |
| Portela, Rafael A. | Teología antropológica de la iniciación sacramental: Desafíos de la iniciación Cristiana de adultos en Arizona | 2009 | Ph.D. |
| Ramos-Santiago, Ernesto A. | Sor Isolina María Ferré: Misionera, evangelizadora y profetisa | 2009 | 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. |
| Rojas Banuchi, Pablo E. | Preparándonos para la Vida Eterna: Vida Cristiana y Espiritualidad en Juan Calvino | 2010 | Ph.D. |
| Sánchez, Susana | Libertos Norteamericanos en Quisqueya: Historia de Fe, Abandono y Redención de una Negritud Atrapada 1776-1889 | 2011 | Ph.D. |
| Vera-Méndez, Juan A. | Hacia una pastoral puertoriqueña y ecuménica, comprometida con la esperanza, la libertad y la justicia social | 2009 | Ph.D. |
Islamic Studies | |||
| Student Name | Dissertation Title | Year of Defense | Degree |
| Abadalla, Ahmad Abadalghafar | The Relationship Between Religion and Politics | 2008 | Ph.D. |
| Abdelsatar, Mohamed Moustafa Mohamed Anwar | Principles of Globalization and Flexibility in the Islamic Shari’ah | 2017 | Ph.D. |
| Abdin, Aziz | Renewal and Reform in Understanding Religious Texts: A Necessity for Solving the Current Crisis (Qran and Sonah) | 2008 | Ph.D. |
| Abdulkadir, Ahmed Moallim | The History of Somalian Movements | 2015 | Ph.D. |
| Abdul-Malik, Ibrahim | Prayer in Islam: A Guide for Beginning Muslims, an Introduction for Non-Muslims | 2006 | Ph.D. |
| Abdul-Malik, Ibrahim | Prayer in Islam: A Guide for Beginning Muslims, an Introduction for Non-Muslims | 2006 | Ph.D. |
| Abuelyaman, Eltayeb Salih | Peaks of Fiqh, the Noblest of All Sciences | 2006 | Ph.D. |
| Agic, Senad | Immigration, Assimilation and Community Building: The Bosnian Experience in North America | 2016 | Ph.D. |
| Ahmad, Abdirahman Sheikh Omar | Christianization Conferences of the Muslim World | 2013 | Ph.D. |
| Ahmed, Yaser M. | Creedal Matters Related to Jesus (Peace Be Upon Him) as In Quran and Sunnah | 2014 | Ph.D. |
| Alayobi, Maaly Alddin | The Concepts and Purposes of Sharia Law | 2012 | Ph.D. |
| Al-Ayoubi, Rania | Humanitarian in Islam | 2013 | Ph.D. |
| Ali, Magdy Kamel | Models of Contemporary Islamic Financial Transactions and Controls Legitimacy | 2013 | Ph.D. |
| Al Mofachi, M. Bashir | Inheritance in Islam according to the four Feqeh schools | 2011 | Ph.D. |
| Alraee, Mohammad Younus | The Pilgrimage and its Effect on Establishing the Muslim’s Manners | 2013 | Ph.D. |
| Alsafty, Mahmoud | Codification of the Crimes and Punishment in Islam | 2014 | Ph.D. |
| Al-Shehabi, Yousef | The Path to World Peace | 2015 | Ph.D. |
| Alshorman, Shady Mohammed | Quaranic Guidance in Dealing with the People of the Book | 2013 | Ph.D. |
| Altabaa, Mohamad Samer | The Methods of Quran in Guiding People | 2015 | Ph.D. |
| Assi, Khalil | The Importance of Strategic Planning for Islamic Institutions in Scandinavia | 2018 | Ph.D. |
| Atif, Said | The Decisive Say in What is Forbidden in the Peoples of the Book Food and What is Lawful | 2015 | Ph.D. |
| Ayoub, Abed | The Islamic Perspective on Relief and International Development | 2012 | Ph.D. |
| Baltaji, Toufik Omar | The Rules and Instruction for Perfect Arabic Grammar | 2011 | Ph.D. |
| Bayian, Zamzam Salih | Sûrah Maryam: Analytical Interpretations and Reflections | 2018 | Ph.D. |
| Bayoun, Imad | Belief and the Human Mind | 2015 | Ph.D. |
| Basyouni, Waleed | Ibn Taymiyya’s Theory of “Shared Meaning” and “Overlapping Relation” in the Diving Names and Attributes | 2007 | Ph.D. |
| Ceman, Sabahudin | Feqeh Islamic Issues Among Bosniak Communities in the West | 2017 | Ph.D. |
| Daher, Ghada | Hajj and Omra Affairs from the Quran and Sunna | 2011 | Ph.D. |
| Dawlatzai, Marzia Hashem | Women in Islam: Evident Facts and Baseless Doubts | 2008 | Ph.D. |
| Elbasuni, Abdelsalam Elsayed | In the Shade of the Throne of the Most Merciful | 2016 | Ph.D. |
| Elbadawi, Taher Kamal | Preparing Islamic Advocate for Western Societies | 2011 | Ph.D. |
| Eldegwy, Saad | Imam Muslim Methodology | 2013 | Ph.D. |
| Elmagbari, Omar Mussa | Rearing Muslim Youth in the United States of America | 2011 | Ph.D. |
| Elshikh, Ismail Mohamed | Foundations of the Muslim Family | 2008 | Ph.D. |
| Ervondy, Doddy | The Islamic Engineering Science: Past, Present, and Prospect | 2005 | Ph.D. |
| Gehan, Ebrahim Kamel Mohamed | Nodal and Moral Side in Dialog Jaafar (may Allah be pleased with him) with Al-Negashi (Negus) | 2013 | Ph.D. |
| Gewida, Saad Abdelhamid | Muslim Schools and Raising Youth: Between Hope and Reality | 2016 | Ph.D. |
| Ghoneim, Wagdy | The Divine Shari’a and Humanized Democracy | 2008 | Ph.D. |
| Hajahbo, Maiada | Security Linguistics and Islamic Identity | 2016 | Ph.D. |
| Hasan, Mohamed Salah Omar Mohamed | The Islamic Ruling on the Protests of the Arab Spring | 2011 | Ph.D. |
| Hassan, Mohamed Ibraheem | Priorities of Dawa discourse in current stage | 2013 | Ph.D. |
| Hassan, Mohammed A. | Quran Interpretations: Thoughts and History | 2011 | 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. |
| Irhabi, Irhabi Mohamed Younes | Care for the Elderly as a Civilization Value in the Prophetic Sunna | 2013 | Ph.D. |
| Jaber, Hana Taleb | Raising Muslim Youth in the West: An Islamic Approach | 2014 | Ph.D. |
| Jama, Khadar Omar | The Abortion: Its Causes and Rulings within the Scope of Islamic Law | 2014 | Ph.D. |
| Kamel, Moustafa Soliman Mohamed | The Jurisprudence of Separation and Divorce | 2015 | Ph.D. |
| Karajouli, Andera Adnan | Renovation in Islamic Thought | 2013 | Ph.D. |
| Kariye, Mohamed Sheikh Abdirahman | The Western Interpretation of Islam: Comparing to the Four Schools of Fiqh | 2015 | Ph.D. |
| Kazanci, Murat | Being in Contemporary Islamic Thought: The Case of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi | 2017 | Ph.D. |
| Khatib, Naser Abdel-Latif | Jihad in Islam versus Terrorism | 2011 | Ph.D. |
| Khater, Mohamad | Jihad and Terrorism: An Islamic Perspective | 2018 | Ph.D. |
| Kukiqi, Tahir M. | The Influence of the Islamic Faith in Preserving the Islamic Identity of the Albanian People | 2014 | Ph.D. |
| Mardeni, Abdul Rahim | Scientific Miracles in the Qur’an and Sunnah | 2012 | 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. |
| Mohamed, Widad Ahmed | Challenges and Strategies for Islamic School Principals in the USA | 2017 | Ph.D. |
| Mohamud, Mohamed Mohamed;/td> | Methodology of Preacher to Allah in Changing the Nation | 2017 | Ph.D. |
| Morsy Mahgoob, Safwat Ali | The Islamic Discourse and the Changing Reality | 2014 | Ph.D. |
| Moussa, Mohamed | Social Relationships in the Light of Nissa Chapter | 2012 | Ph.D. |
| Musri, Muhammad E. | Islamic Banking in the U.S.A. | 2013 | Ph.D. |
| Nakkashieh, Shirin | The Focus on Righteous People: Omar Ibn Alkhatab before Islam and after | 2013 | 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. |
| Osman, Ragab Zaky Ahmed | The Spiritual Emptiness: Causes and Treatment from an Islamic Perspective (Comparative Study) | 2012 | Ph.D. |
| Qadri, Hafiz Haqqani Mian | A Study of the Holy Qur’an and Anecdotal References of Women in the Circumstances of the Revelations | 2012 | Ph.D. |
| Raslan, Bayan | Moderation in the Qur’an | 2013 | Ph.D. |
| Redzic, Muaz | The Prophets and Their Wives: Gender Studies in the Qur’an | 2010 | Ph.D. |
| Said, Yousef | Narrations of Yahya Bin Aby Amr Alsaybani: Collection, Documentation and Study | 2011 | Ph.D. |
| Salie, Achmat | Sharia-centric Hermeneutics | 2017 | Ph.D. |
| Shahin, Oday | The Muslim Community in the USA: Challenges and Ambitions | 2013 | Ph.D. |
| Shahin, Omar Ahmad | The Islamic Law of Inheritance | 2007 | Ph.D. |
| Sheikh, Zia Ul-Haque | A Detailed Comparison between Traditional Islamic and Modern Management Practices | 2011 | Ph.D. |
| Siddiqi, Mohammad | The Interpretations of the Commandment Verses of the Holy Quran-Surat | 2014 | Ph.D. |
| Siddiqi, MohammadShibli | The Gift of the Prayer According to Hanafi School of Thought in the Light of the Sunna of Prophet PBUH | 2015 | Ph.D. |
| Siddiqi, Shaikh Shamsularifeen | The Interpretations of the Commandment Verses of the Holy Quran-Surat Al-Fatihah & Surah Al-Baqarah | 2014 | Ph.D. |
| Vardar, Zurkani | Adam (a.s.) the Father of Mankind between Qur’an and Bible: Similarities and Differences | 2013 | Ph.D. |
| Wanly, Yosof Mozafar | Analyzing the Questionable Transmitters of the Sahih Corpus | 2017 | Ph.D. |
| Yahya, Nabeel | Children’s Rights in Divine Religious and Man-Made Religious Doctrines from an Islamic Perspective | 2012 | Ph.D. |
Information Sciences | |||
| Student Name | Dissertation Title | Year of Defense | Degree |
| Grant, Jennifer Feda | Examining Factors Influencing Nontraditional Student Work Performance | 2012 | Ph.D. |
| Khan, Mohammed A.S. | Application of Knowledge Management in Library Settings | 2007 | Ph.D. |
| Neal, Richard Steven | Aspects of the Setting that Involves Students in the Problem Solving Competition | 2010 | Ph.D. |
| Osinubi, Olufemi | Information Security and Risk Management: A Case Study of Insider Threats | 2018 | Ph.D. |
| Tucker, Dennis C. | The Sutomation of Congregational Libraries: Pertinent Issues | 2002 | Ph.D. |
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. |
| Davis, Robert Jonathan | A Theology of Image and the Impact on the Use of Technology and Media in Liturgical Christian Worship | 2013 | 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 |
| Kagere, Guy Msafiri | The Role of the Catholic Church in Mediation of Armed Conflicts in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo | 2017 | Ph.D. |
| 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. |
| Ugoh, Laserian Ndubisi | The Arab Spring: Mediation and Peaceful Political Transition | 2012 | Ph.D. |
| Ibeh, Valentine U. | Mediation and Igba-Ndu: An Igbo Concept of Conflict Transformation and Sustainable Peace | 2016 | Ph.D. |
Pastoral Studies | |||
| Student Name | Dissertation Title | Year of Defense | Degree |
| Abasilim, Maurice O. | Pastoral Understanding and Application of the Sacrament of Healing: Anointing of the Sick | 2016 | Ph.D. |
| Addison, Howard A. | The Enneagram and Kabbalah: Reading Your Soul | 2000 | Ph.D. |
| Ahanotu, Leonard Ugonna | Navigating between Cultures: Pastoral-psychological preparation of Nigerian priests on U.S. mission | 2018 | Ph.D. |
| Akin-Otiko, Peter | Integrating the Personality Theories of Analytical Psychology into the Process of the Assessment of Suitability for Ecclesiastical Office in the Catholic Church in Nigeria | 2014 | Ph.D. |
| Akpunonu, Raymond Chidum | Zero Tolerance: The Fate of the Roman Catholic Clergy and Pastoral Care of the Accused | 2012 | Ph.D. |
| Alicea Padilla, Arcadio | La percepción y la práctica de la santidad social en la región norte I y II en la iglesia metodista de Puerto Rico | 2012 | Ph.D. |
| Alkanat, Ozge | Observed Level of Differentiation of Self, Boundary Flexibility and Triangulation Formations in Turkish Families Receiving Systemic Family Therapy | 2013 | Ph.D. |
| Al-Shehabi, Yousef | The Path to World Peace | 2015 | Ph.D. |
| Anarado, Ethel Anene | Education and Human Development: Factors Militating Against Education in Nigeria | 2017 | Ph.D. |
| Anderson, Douglas Joe | Betwixt and Between – A Metaxological Theory of Culture for Praxis in the Anthropology of Religion | 2015 | 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. |
| Archibong, Cosmas P. | Transforming Post Traumatic Stress Disorder into Post Traumatic Growth: Through Viktor Frankl’s Meaning-Centered Counseling | 2013 | Ph.D. |
| Ardley, Evan Lloyd | Throught the Eye of a Needle | 2001 | Ph.D. |
| Arockiaraj, Inniah Christy Thambusamy | Transcendence as a Source of Resilience in Coping with Depression | 2013 | Ph.D. |
| Baez, Wilfredo J. | Modeling on Jesus of Nazareth as a Preacher: Utilizing Cognitive Behavioral Strategies from Neuro-Linguistic Psychology for Becoming a More Effective Preacher | 2013 | 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. |
| Bain, Elaine Margaret | The Effectiveness of a School Based Psychotherapy Program on Inner-City High School Students | 2010 | Ph.D. |
| Ballantyne, Sharon Lorie | Acceptance: Paths toward Healing and Wholeness through Vulnerability, Loss and Brokenness | 2012 | Ph.D. |
| Battle, Valencia Julia | Depression and Quality of Life among African American and Non-African American Women Breast Cancer Survivors in the United States | 2018 | 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. |
| Boudreau, Richard George | Justification and Feasibility for Incorporating Bioethics Education into USA Secondary Secular School Curriculums | 2011 | Ph.D. |
| Boylan, Martin M. | The Presumption is Love | 1996 | Ph.D. |
| Brewer, Guy Robin | Poet-Gardener: A Soul Care Model for Preaching | 2009 | Ph.D. |
| Bropleh, Rudolph Monsio | The Microeconomics of Church Ministry: Analyzing the Production Process of Churches in Various Contexts and Traditions | 2013 | Ph.D. |
| Bunson, Matthew E. | Pope Francis | 2014 | 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. |
| Burroughs, Janice Smith | Lonergan’s General Empirical Method How We Come to Know: An Invitation to Teachers and Learners in the Classroom | 2015 | 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. |
| Dale, Diana C. | Corporate Chaplaincy in the 21st Century: Building Models of Collaboration for Organizational Transformation | 2011 | 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. |
| Dezelic, Marie S. | Meaning-Centered and Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy: Based on Viktor Frankl’s Logotherapy – Applicable across Clinical Settings | 2013 | Ph.D. |
| Dietsch, Nancy | Soul Reintegration for Post Traumatic Growth: A Meaning-Centered Approach to Healing through Logotherapy Lived | 2014 | Ph.D. |
| Dowling, Jerome Paul | The Psychology of Presbyter; The Context of the Presbyter; A Call to Spiritual Direction | 1997 | Ph.D. |
| Duncan-Probe, DeDe | Through a Prism: Looking through Fourteenth Century Women’s Devotional Writings to Reveal “The Cloud of Unknowing” | 2013 | Ph.D. |
| Dvorscak, James | Organization Development in a Local Catholic Parish | 1999 | Ph.D. |
| Egbeji, Jude C. | Clergy – Laity Conflicts in Parish Settings in Igboland: Strategies towards Resolution and Management | 2012 | Ph.D. |
| Ellerby, Jonathan H. | Indigenous Integrative Phenomenology: Integrating Indigenous Epistemologies in Traditional Healing Research | 2007 | Ph.D. |
| Ely, Elizabeth Wickenberg | A Manual for Eucharistic Visitors | 2013 | Ph.D. |
| Enelichi, Alphonsus Ifeanyichukwu | The Laity as Agents of Reconciliation and Social Transformation in Africa: A Case Study on the Laity Council of Nigeria | 2013 | Ph.D. |
| Ettlinger, Eugene | Six Sigma Zero-Loss of Quality Health | 2012 | Ph.D. |
| Ezeh, Christopher Osita | Healing in the Pastoral Duties of Catholic Priests with Special Emphasis on their Eucharistic Healing Ministry | 2014 | Ph.D. |
| Faith, Tristan | What is the Efficacy of Regression Therapy in Healing Trauma? | 2012 | 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. |
| Frederich, Kristin Alice | Soul Tender: Developing Renewable Resources for Health and Longevity in Ministry for Spiritual Leaders in View of the History and Contemporary Transformation of these Roles | 2012 | Ph.D. |
| Galarza Sierra, Jaime | Visión y Análisis de una Teología Práctica Puertorriqueña y su Impacto en la Pastoral Social Communitaria | 2014 | Ph.D. |
| Galeano, John J. | The Eucharist; Fountain of Liturgy | 2013 | 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. |
| 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. |
| Horton, Mark A. | Emerging Adulthood and the Search for Meaning: A Franklian Perspective | 2014 | Ph.D. |
| Houston, Jean | Jump Time | 2003 | Ph.D. |
| Ignatius, Charles Mani | The Agony and Ecstasy of Dying: Intervention of Caregivers | 2017 | Ph.D. |
| Igwe, Paschal Chikanele | The Cosmological and Spiritual Perceptions of Suffering in African Culture | 2010 | Ph.D. |
| Igwilo, Peter C. | Examination of Factors Impeding Significant Reduction in Spousal Violence in Southeastern Nigeria: Pastoral Psychology Approach | 2009 | Ph.D. |
| Ike, Anthony | Jesus, Logotherapy & Igbo Worldview: Search for Meaning | 2018 | Ph.D. |
| Imo, Cletus Chukwudi | The Ministry of the Shepherd and the Church in Africa (A Cognitive Insight into the Pastoral Priorities of the Priest) | 2012 | Ph.D. |
| Iromenu, Anthony | Conflict and Dispute Resolution: The Case for Igbo Culture of Nigeria | 2013 | Ph.D. |
| Iwuji, Raymond Nduchijioke | Alleviating the Traumatic Effects of Death and the Consequent Grief for the Bereaved through Communal Support and Rituals (the Igbo-African Perspective) | 2012 | Ph.D. |
| Jama, Khadar Omar | The Abortion: Its Causes and Rulings within the Scope of Islamic Law | 2014 | 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. |
| Joseph, Vio Ouseph | Religiosity in the Recovery of Alcohol Counselors | 2011 | 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. |
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| Lehrer, Patricia A. | The Journey Inwards: Crafting the Christian Self Through Autobiography, Dreams and Visions | 2008 | Ph.D. |
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| Lopez Mora, Wilfredo | Caracteristicas Cristologicas para una pastoral juvenil | 2008 | Ph.D. |
| Macklin, Ken | Transformative Spirituality and Ethics | 2014 | Ph.D. |
| Malone, Janet | The Spirituality of Nonviolence in Transforming the Energies of Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Conflict and Anger | 2005 | Ph.D. |
| Mangual Romero, Adán | Importancia, fracaso y éxito del matrimonio | 2014 | Ph.D. |
| Mardini, Fatima | Marriage and Divorce in the Three Religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam | 2012 | Ph.D. |
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| 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. |
| Neal, Joanne Christine | The Intentional Pursuit of the Ethical: The Faith-Based Formation of the Next Generation of Christian Managers and Business Leaders | 2010 | Ph.D. |
| Ngo, Peter Thang C. | Tribunal in the New Millennium: Theology, Spirituality, Leadership, Collaboration and Strategies for Effective Pastoral Ministry | 2005 | Ph.D. |
| Nnaukwu, Alex Chitoolisa | Religious Violence in Nigeria: The education, political, historical, socio-economic and psychological perspectives | 2010 | Ph.D. |
| Norris, Lyddon Kendrick | The Psychological Meaning of Christmas | 2006 | Ph.D. |
| Nwobi, Paul U. | Crisis in Priesthood and Spiritual Formation | 2010 | Ph.D. |
| Odikanoro, Vincent Ibe | Culture Shock: The Challenges of living at the Crossroads of Two Cultures: Case Study | 2009 | Ph.D. |
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| Okeke, Dilio Anselm | The Onslaught of Modernism on the Priestly Healing Ministry-A Pastoral Restoration | 2011 | Ph.D. |
| Okere, Bartholomew N. | The Dilemma of the Growth of the Christian Faith in Igbo Land of Nigeria: A Psycho-Pastoral Perspective | 2010 | Ph.D. |
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| Okoro, John C. | Evaluation of Possible Constraints to Effective Christian Religious Education in Secondary Schools: The Nigerian Experience | 2010 | Ph.D. |
| Olisah, Amaka F. | Reshaping the Vocation of Religious Women in Nigeria | 2006 | Ph.D. |
| Oludiya, Temi Adesoye David | HIV/AIDS: Impacts of Conflicts, Political Repressions and Refugee Status on Women in Rwanda | 2018 | Ph.D. |
| Omorogbe, Edwin Nosakhare | The Dilemma of Catholic Pastors in Nigeria in the Face of a Growing Demand for Instant Prosperity and Instant Healing: Integrating the Psychological Principles of Logotherapy | 2012 | Ph.D. |
| Onu Ekeh, Christiana | Applying the Value of Psychology to Human Life: A Case for Counseling | 2012 | Ph.D. |
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| Ortiz, Luz Minerva | Shattering the Glass Ceiling in Medicine: Recruitment and Retention of Underrepresented Minority Applicants in Medicine, Its Overall Impact on Healthcare for Underserved Communities and the Rolse of Minority Affairs Offices in U.S. Medical Schools | 2010 | Ph.D. |
| Owolagba, James | Integrating Psychological and Psychotherapeutic Models into Pastoral Counseling: A Case for the “Integrated Approach” Adduced by Henri Nouwen (1932-1996) | 2011 | Ph.D. |
| Pazzaglia-Filkins, Gina | Adult Children of Domestic Violence – Relational Attachment Issues and Lack of Emotional Awareness: A Qualitative Multi-Case Study | 2012 | Ph.D. |
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| Quiñones Murillo, Luis Hernando | Justicia Social en Gerardo Valencia Cano | 2008 | Ph.D. |
| Lazaro Ramos, Jose | 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. |
| Rivera Maldonado, José A. | Los aspectos fundamentales del matrimonio propuesto por la Iglesia Católica para el Cristiano son suficiente remedio | 2014 | Ph.D. |
| Rodríguez Bermúdez, Israel | Manifestación de Dios en la mujer que sufre del cáncer de seno | 2013 | Ph.D. |
| Rodriguez Rivera, Ojel Eduardo | La evangelización Protestante y Pentecostal en Puerto Rico desde la perspectiva paradigmática de la invasión norteamericana en contra posición con la misión salvífica de Dios para una nación: transformación cultural, social, política y religiosa de un pueblo desde 1898 hasta 1940 | 2013 | Ph.D. |
| Ross, E. Gordon | The Christian Life is a Daily Baptism | 1996 | Ph.D. |
| Rowitt, Steven | Health, Wellbeing, and Wholeness in Leviticus and its Implications for Public Health in the 21st Century: A Theological and Pastoral Case Study Focusing on the Levitical Priest as a Public Health Practitioner | 2011 | 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. |
| Singleton, Richard C. | The Correlation Between Decision-Making Processes and Moral Distress | 2012 | 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. |
| Tagami, Shinichi | The Value, Relevancy, and Need of Christian Faith in Medicine: A recommendation for medical practice based on Christian faith | 2009 | 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. |
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| Ugwu, Charles Nnaemeka | Pastoral and Theological Perspectives of Marriage: The Case for Family Ministry Among the Igbo People of Nigeria | 2015 | 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. |
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Scripture | ; | ||
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| Ameri, Sami Bechir | The Difficulties of the Restoration of the Original Text of the New Testament in Light of Methodologies of Lower Criticism: Examining the Assertions of the Traditionalists and the Apologies | 2014 | Ph.D. |
| Anderson, Sr., Robert Douglas | Paul and the Salvation of “All Israel” | 2014 | Ph.D. |
| Blumenfeld, Donald E. | Easter Encounters an Examination of the Resurrection Appearances in the Gospels of Luke and John | 1996 | Ph.D. |
| Collier, Gary Dean | Engaging Paul: Shades of Conversation in 1 Thessalonians | 2014 | Ph.D. |
| Humphrey, Robert L. | Literary Structure and Message in Mark: A Rhetorical Analysis | 2000 | Ph.D. |
| Martinez, Mario A. | Teología Bíblica del Infierno: De Argimiro Ruano | 2013 | Ph.D. |
| Muorah, Charles C. | A Contextual Study of Exodus 1, 1-15, 21 from the Perspective of the Mission of the Catholic Church in Nigeria | 2010 | Ph.D. |
| Norris, Robert Joseph | A Rhetorical/Mimetic Analysis of Acts 20:18-38 Paul’s Address to the Ephesian Elders: A Lesson to be Passed Along | 2012 | 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. |
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| 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 | ; | ||
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| 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. |
| Banashak, Jeanette | Creativity and Contemplative Prayer/Meditation: A Phenomenological Study | 2016 | Ph.D. |
| Bell, Jr., Reuben Paul | Intelligent Default: Emanuel Swedenborg’s Theistic Science as a Model and Method for Solving Contemporary Problems in Natural Philosophy | 2016 | Ph.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. |
| Bunson, Matthew E. | Pope Francis | 2014 | Ph.D. |
| Busby, Douglas Earl | Can the Spirit World Provide Us Help in Healing? Seeking an Answer from What is Known About the Nature of Disincarnate Spirit Existence, and from the Spiritual Ministries of Harry Edwards and John of God | 2015 | Ph.D. |
| Caban Caceres, Gerardo | Fenomenologia de la experiencia de Dios en San Agustin en el Libro VIII de le Obra de Las Confesiones | 2008 | Ph.D. |
| Calvanese, Carmen J. | Back to the Future of the Roman Catholic Church: Theological and Ecclesiastical Developments in a Religious Institution at the Edge of its Survival into the Twenty-first Century | 2010 | Ph.D. |
| Casey, Murray Joseph | Symbol of Grace: Contemporary Reflections on the Presence of God to His People through the Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist | 2012 | Ph.D. |
| Castro-Cuba, Isaac Enrique Barineza | Aportes de la Doctrina de San Agustín a la Pedagogía y Catequesis Contemporánea | 2005 | Ph.D. |
| Cerrato, Dominic | In Persona Christi Servitis: A Personalist Approach to the Theology of the Diaconate | 2009 | Ph.D. |
| Cheng Sau Ting, Peter | Macquarrie’s Christology of Being: Holistic Humanity of Freedom, Love and Responsibility | 2008 | Th.D. |
| Chism, Jerry Paul | Telling our Sacred Story: The In-Singing of Theology | 2015 | Ph.D. |
| Clubine, James Robert | John Wesley’s Understanding of Preaching | 2010 | Th.D. |
| Collazo Torres, Luis G. | Espiritualidad en la Praxis y el Discurso Político de Pedro Albizu Campos | 2013 | Ph.D. |
| Collier, Gary Dean | Engaging Paul: Shades of Conversation in 1 Thessalonians | 2014 | Ph.D. |
| Collins, Mary Rose | Humility in Three Medieval Mystics: Angela of Foligno, Catherine of Siena, and Julian of Norwich | 2015 | Th.D. |
| Colon, Jorge R. | Teologia de la Redencion | 2007 | Ph.D. |
| Colvard, Michael David | Toward a Soporific Ethnomedicine Ministry of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem: ‘Fraternitas Hospitalaria’ | 2014 | Ph.D. |
| Corcoran, John Anthony | Augustinus Contra Donatistas | 1996 | Ph.D. |
| Cotto Pérez, Irving | La dimensión sanadora de la liturgia: cuidado pastoral mediante la eucaristía en el contexto Wesleyano | 2018 | Ph.D. |
| Cox, R. David | Priesthood in a New Millennium: Towards an Understanding of Anglican Presbyterate for the Twenty-First Century | 2001 | Ph.D. |
| 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. |
| Donlon, Kevin Francis | Possibilities in Reclaiming an Anglican Catechetical Method | 1998 | Ph.D. |
| Dufresne, Edward R. | The Joyful Exchange: A Christian Spirituality from the Writings of Martin Luther | 1998 | Ph.D. |
| Efodigbue, Ayo Emmanuel | Charisms for Ministry: An Exploration of the Manifest Charisms in the Early Church | 2017 | Ph.D. |
| Echekwu, Kyrian Chukwuemeka | Nigerian Politics and Corruption: The Challenges Before the Nigerian Church as a Socio-Moral Actor | 2015 | Ph.D. |
| Eke, Anselm Kentus Chijioke | Concept of Freedom: A Socio-Theological Inquiry | 2016 | Ph.D. |
| El-Hillal, Mohammad F. | Stem-Cell Cloning: Biomedical-Theological Perspectives | 2009 | Ph.D. |
| Eldred, Martin Willis | Paul’s “Evangelical Apologia” in 2 Corinthians 1-7 | 2017 | Ph.D. |
| Ellison, James Allen | Universalism as Found in the Writings of John Wesley | 2011 | Ph.D. |
| Etheridge, Carrine | The Biology of Belief: Evolving Spiritual Dimensions in the Human Species | 2001 | Ph.D. |
| Flemmer, David D. | The Spirituality of Play: An Existential Understanding of Play Therapy with Children | 2009 | Ph.D. |
| Foster, Stephen Douglas | Theology as Repetition: John Macquarrie in conversation | 2018 | Ph.D. |
| Fowler, Susan Isabella | Community Leadership: Spiritual Foundations For Social Transfomation | 2004 | Ph.D. |
| Galarza Sierra, Jaime | Visión y Análisis de una Teología Práctica Puertorriqueña y su Impacto en la Pastoral Social Communitaria | 2014 | Ph.D. |
| García, Héctor Moreno | La Sagrada Eucaristia, Piedras de Tropiezo en su Torno, y Elementos Relacionados | 2007 | Ph.D. |
| Gargiulo, Gerald J. | Psyche and Soul: Reflections on Psychoanalysis and Spirituality | 2003 | Ph.D. |
| Grace, Gerard A. | Death-A Celebration in Omega: Towards a Christian Spirituality of Death | 2006 | Ph.D. |
| Graham, Nancy L. | African-American Spirituals and the Rehabilitation of George Pullen Jackson | 2014 | Ph.D. |
| Guerrero, Juan Eduardo Pulido | Wesley, El Pentacostalismo y La Experiencia Vistos Desde América Latina | 2008 | Ph.D. |
| Hajdukovic, Joyce | Love Beckons Across the Crowded Room of Human Consciousness: The Operation of Uncreated Grace in Christian Contemplation | 2011 | Ph.D. |
| Hankus, David John | Blessed Columba Marmion and his Understanding of the Role of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Life of a Roman Catholic Priest: An Aid to Developing a Spirituality for Diocesan Priests in Parochial Ministry | 2012 | Ph.D. |
| Helman, Charles Jeffrey | The Emerging Revival of Sacramental Healing: An Incarnational Theology | 2007 | Ph.D. |
| Hollcraft, Joseph Robert | Poverty: A Principle Constituent to the New Evangelization. Developing a Christocentric Spirituality to Serve the New Evangelization | 2011 | Ph.D. |
| Howe, John W. | Anointed by the Spirit: A Study of the Ministry of Jesus and His Followers | 2011 | Ph.D. |
| Hunt, C. Anthony | Analysis of the Thinking of Howard Thurman and Martin Luther King, Jr. | 2001 | Ph.D. |
| Huskins, Harry Joseph | The Idea of the National Church in Anglicanism; The Canadian Experience | 2010 | Th.D. |
| Iwuoha, Kevin Azubuike | The Challenges of Philosophical Ethical/Moral Relativism: A Christian Perspective | 2011 | Ph.D. |
| Johnson, René Elizabeth | Servant Leadership and the Theological Exploration of Vocation: A Dialogical Relationship | 2015 | Ph.D. |
| Kedjierski, Walter Fredrick | Obedience: Lessons for the Roman Catholic Church from the Life and Work of Baron Friedrich von Hügel | 2017 | Ph.D. |
| Keith, Scott Leonard | Good Works and Salvation in the Loci Communes of Philip Melanchthon | 2015 | Ph.D. |
| Kelly, Neville Ann | Integral Christianity: A Theological Analysis of Ken Wilber’s Envisioned Future of Christianity | 2012 | 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. |
| Kudaka, Katsuko Lee | Mutarutherapy: Spirituality in Drums – A Phenomenological Case Study | 2011 | Ph.D. |
| Larragoiti Vera, Sandra Eileen | Post-Eucharistic Participation: Answers from Santa Teresa de Ávila’s work, Exclamaciones (Soliloquies), ‘A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study’ | 2014 | Ph.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. |
| Little, Jennifer Ann | A Study of Theological Literacy in Listeners to Preaching | 2012 | Ph.D. |
| López Sánchez, Efraín | La resurrección como principio animador de una espiritualidad bautismal | 2012 | Ph.D. |
| Lopez-Sierra, Hector E. | Divina Transdiciplinariedad | 2005 | Ph.D. |
| Macklin, Ken | Transformative Spirituality and Ethics | 2014 | 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. |
| Mattiussi, Richard Alan | “The Ratzinger Formula” A Catalyst for the Unfolding Dialogue Between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches on “Conciliarity and Primacy” | 2009 | Ph.D. |
| May-Hoyles, Deborah Ann | The Theology of Singleness: A Basis for a Singles’ Ministry | 2014 | |
| Mbanefo, Anthony | Grace and Nature, A Dialogue Between God and Humanity | 2010 | Ph.D. |
| Mbonu, Michael Chukwudi | Christology of Karl Rahner and the Notion of Anonymous Christian | 2017 | 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. |
| Moneyhun, William Edward | Is Io Really God? A study of the reciprocation of ideas and practices between Maori and Pakeha and what it means for cultural dialogue and understanding | 2017 | Ph.D. |
| Murasso, Jeremiah N. | Entelechy in the Second Millennium: Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas Revisited | 2000 | Ph.D. |
| Murphy, Jr., James Turner | Defining Salvation in the Context of Black Theology | 2012 | Ph.D. |
| Nangini, Mary Angela | The Four Phases of Being: IQ 3 Integrity Quotient – The Trinitarian Key | 2018 | Ph.D. |
| Naughton, William M. | Juan Luis Segundo’s “Church”: A Vehicle of Social Change | 1999 | Ph.D. |
| Nguyen, Hiep Quang | The Problem of Being in Heidegger’s Philosophy | 2013 | 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. |
| Nissen, Dana Karl | Luther and the Turks: The Turkish Threat to Europe and the Sermons of Martin Luther | 2009 | Ph.D. |
| Obiatuegwu, Thomas | Law and Justice in Aristotle | 2011 | Ph.D. |
| Okafor, Jerome N. | Priestly Formation in the Shade of the Council of Trent: Pitfalls in Igbo Experience | 2010 | Ph.D. |
| Okonkwo, Charles Osita | The Necessity of Christian Baptism: A Context Analysis of Pope John Paul II’s Call for Dialogue | 2015 | Ph.D. |
| Olsen, Jr., Lloyd Lein | Summa Creatio: A Theodicy of Successive Creation | 2011 | Ph.D. |
| O’Neill, John P. | Theological Questions Regarding the Ministry of Deacons: What Makes this Ministry Unique | 2006 | Ph.D. |
| Onyekwere, Michael Kemjika | The Conflicting Influence of the Christian Messages in Igboland: A Theological Enquiry | 2018 | Ph.D. |
| Onyewuche, Christiana | The Exodus of Nigerian Catholic Nuns | 2010 | Ph.D. |
| Osunkwo, Jude Thaddeus Ikenna | The Theology of Environment: Issues in Nigeria and the Response of the Church | 2012 | Ph.D. |
| Otor, Patrick Akponevwe | Church: A Reflection of the Triune God | 2010 | Ph.D. |
| Panotes, Wilfrido | Salvation of Non-Christians: Significance of the Man Jesus, the Church and Sacraments | 2004 | Ph.D. |
| Perea, Donald J. | An Exploration of the Biblical “Servant of God” as a Foundational Archetype and Basis for a Spiritual Theology of Human Participation in God | 2010 | Ph.D. |
| Perez Doglio, Walter Eduardo | Issues of the Reformation in the Light of Church and Society Today | 1999 | Ph.D. |
| Pham Van, Hanh | The History of the Catechism of the American Catholic Church from the Catechism of Trent to the Catechism of the Good Shepherd: How it served the needs of the Church then and how it has adapted to meet the needs of the Church in the third millennium | 2013 | Ph.D. |
| Potters, Susan | The Metaphysics of Poverty: Bonaventure, Dante and the Franciscan Church Ideal | 2013 | 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. |
| Rojas Banuchi, Pablo E. | Preparándonos para la Vida Eterna: Vida Cristiana y Espiritualidad en Juan Calvino | 2010 | Ph.D. |
| Shea, J. Michael | The Poor Will Always be With Us | 2018 | Ph.D. |
| St. Onge, Timothy Steele | Cosmosophia: The Dwelling of the Divine in the Contemporary World | 2010 | Ph.D. |
| Selemobri, M.S.P., Efiri Matthias | Gift and Challenge in Three New Testament Churches | 2015 | Th.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. |
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