Academic Works
These are some of my most important unpublished academic works:
This is a .pdf of my PhD Dissertation. The official copy is available from Love Library of the University of Nebraska. The main argument of the dissertation is that by Origen's time there was a well established Old Testament exegetical tradition of Christian proof texts and Origen as an exegete was aware of this tradition and made use of it. In fact, significant portions of his exegetical work was at least in part a response to Jewish criticism of some portions of this Christian tradition.
This is a .pdf of my Masters Thesis. The official copy is available from Love Library of the University of Nebraska. The main argument of the thesis is presented more concisely in the Published Works section, "Christian Deification and the Early Testimonia"
This paper was done for my Roman Empire class in 1995. It was one of my first papers in my graduate academic work. So it's not all that original from today's vantage point but it is still a good overview of the Arian controversy of the 4th century.
This paper was created for an Early Christianity class in 1995. The content is very important and I continued to use much of it through my academic career. But it was early and in some places the presentation is not how I would do it today
This paper, Wittenberg Reforms in the University and the Early Reaction to Copernicus, was created as part of my Social History of Science class in 1997. It was one of my first papers as part of my PhD program. It was one of the hardest papers to get started I ever did. But in the end it was one of my favorites. More than any other individual work I've done, it brings together all my interests in theology, history, and science
This paper was rewritten and reworked and recently published in Logia XVII (2008), 4, 39 - 44, as: “Wittenberg: What to Do with Aristotle?“