Recent PhD ICS Dissertations

The following dissertations were selected for awards:

 2012 

Catherine Mary Barsotti, “Knowing God in Lo Cotidiano: Interlacing the Voices of Latina Women,Studies in Theo-Spirituality and Film, and Female Voices in the Hebrew Scripture” 

John Theodore Esler, “Movements and Missionary Agencies: A Case Study of Church Planting Missionary Teams” 

Mark I. Fields, “Contours of Local Congregation-based Mission in the Vineyard Movement, 1982 to 2007” 

 Ronald Geoffrey Hannaford, “A Model of Online Education Effecting Holistic Student Formation Appropriate for Global Cross-Cultural Contexts” 

 Andrew John Mainiero, “The Johannine Story Re-Presented in Los Angeles: Toward a Covenantal Paradigm of Mission” 

 R. Daniel Reeves, “In Search of Purpose: an Examination of the Contributions of the Council on Ecclesiology to Clarify the Mission of Local Congregations in North America”  

 David Hope Scott, “How We Talk About Why We Work with Kids: Developing a Cultural Model of Motivation-Talk for Work with Children at Risk” 

2011 

Adam D. Ayers, “In Search of the Contours of a Missiological Hermeneutic” 

 Carol Ann Christopher, “How National Culture and Business Norms Modulate Indian Entrepreneurs' Expression of Personal Religious Values” 

 Sarita D. Gallagher, “Abrahamic Blessing Motif as Reflected in the Papua New Guinean Christian Revival Crusade Movement: Blesim Bilong Papa God” 

 Farida Saïdi, “A Study of current leadership styles in the north african church” 

 Rick Dean Mathis, “A Missioning Care Model For The US Foursquare Gospel Church Missionary Member Care System” 

 Kathryn Lewis Mowry, “Trusting in Resurrection:  Eschatological Imagination for Churches Engaging Transitional Neighborhoods” 

 Christopher Vaz, “Functional Equivalent Translation of New Testament Hortatory Discourse Into Hill Madia”

 Ruth Manimekalai Vaz, “The Interrelation Between the Kinship, Marriage Alliance, Social Organization and Structure of the Hill Madia of Central India” 

 Dae-Hyoun Lee, “An Socio-cultural Examination of the Characteristics of the Emerging Digital Generation in South Korea” 

2010 

Gregory W. Burch, “From Empowerment to Protagonismo Infantil: Toward an Understanding of Christian Response to Street Children in Latin America with Special Emphasis on the Early Encounter Project in Cochabamba, Bolivia” 

 Traver Keith Dougherty, “Toward a Theory of How Receptors Process God's Intent Given the Particularities of Conventional and Organic Church Environments” 

 David  Leong, “Street Signs: Toward a Missional Theology of Urban Cultural Engagement” 

 Victoria Morongwa Peagler, “Blow the Trumpet in Black Zion: a Phenomenological Exploration of the Zionist Christian Church in South Africa” 

 Kyung Lan Suh, “Exclusion and Embrace in the Life Stories of Selected First-Generation Korean Immigrant Women in Mission with Special Reference to Luke-Acts” 

 Robert B. Whitesel, “Recurring Patterns of Organic Churches: An Analysis of Twelve Emerging Congregations”