Seattle Pacific Seminary, the graduate professional program of the SPU School of Theology, is is an “Accredited Member” of the Association of Theological Schools. Of the degrees it offers, the following require (in the case of the M.Div., allow for) a thesis: the M.Div., the M.A. (Christian Scripture), and the M.A. (Christian Studies).
This series contains approved master’s theses. For approved master's projects, go here.
Theses from 2024
The Bourgeoisie Black Church: An Analysis of the American Black Church's Aspirations and Imagination, Alexander Robert Booker
Chaplaincy & Medical Family Therapy: Christian Witness to Presence, Incarnation, and Hospitality in the Pacific Northwest, R. Fraser Reach
Theses from 2022
Address of the Warrioress: Old Testament Warfare and Women's Role in Wartime Role in w, Madeline Ruby Nielsen
'You Have Smitten Me with Yearning': Towards a Queer Eastern Orthodox Christology, Micah Lazarus Orrin Wilger
Theses from 2021
Understanding Sexual Abuse and Redemption of Persons with Sexual Abuse History through the Person and Work of Jesus Christ, Nag Chi Wong
Theses from 2020
'We Were Hoping': The Emmaus Road Encounter As a Novel Approach to Faith-Science Dialogue, Harold A. Laurence V
Theses from 2019
Andraé Edward Crouch's Musical and Theological Pursuits: An Analysis of Three Pieces from the Just Andraé Album, Stephen Michael Newby
Theses from 2018
In Defense of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit in the Believer: A Presbyterian Perspective, Geoffrey K. Wanyoike
Postcolonial Discipleship: Movement, Genius, and Uncertainty: Explorations in Contemporary 'Korean American' Theological Discourse, Michael Sungjoon Won
Theses from 2017
The Communication of Limits: Christ, the Communicatio Idiomatum, and the Identity of People with Disabilities, Kendrick Barnes
'What Do You Want Me to Do for You?': Request and Relinquishment in Mark 10:35-52, Rebeccah Kay Buell
Jesus-Immanuel: Matthew's Narrative Christology of Divine Presence, Jacob Michael Carlson
Evangelism and the Work of Discipline in Congolese Perspective: 'Evangelism in Congolese Context', Zalema Kuedituka
Shaped By Calling: Establishing a Healthy Trajectory for Discipleship, Chuck J. Shocki
Theses from 2016
Spiritual Formation of Young Adults in China: A Case Study of Protagonists in Boxers and Saints, Xu Bian
Mary a Woman: Sex and Situation in the Incarnation, Sarah Marie Keough
Setting God's 'Welcome Table': Images of the Church for an Inclusive Ecclesiology, Katherine V. Stats
Theses from 2015
The Richest Legacy: Recovering the Lord's Supper as a Means of Grace in the Free Methodist Church USA, Jarad L. Bivins
'Who Are You?' Reading and Judging Character in Genesis 26:34-28:9, Nathaniel Q. Hoover
Eucharistic Undoings: Ecstatic Participation and Divine Incorporation in the Spirit, Natalie S. Johnson
'The Pain of Being Faithful to the Word of the LORD': An Exegetical Study of Jeremiah's Confessions, Rebekah J. Lindberg
Theses from 2014
Appropriating the Principles of L'Arche for the Transformation of Church Curricula, Nathan Goldbloom
Responses to a Sunday School Curriculum on Mental Illness in the Church, Megan M. Hamshar
'To Open Eyes That Are Blind . . . ' [Isa 42:7]: Senses, Idolatry, and Unity in Isaiah, Kelsie Job
'Whence This Evil?' A Critical Assessment of (Anti)Theodicy and Innocent Suffering in Lamentations 3, Mark P. Stone
Theses from 2013
Theses from 2011
Catechesis for a Practicing Church, Jim Fox
Eutychus in Acts and in the Church: The Narrative Significance of Acts 20:6-12, Julie A. Glavic
Paul, the Athenians, and the Breath of Life: Acts 17:22-31, William Russell Horst