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Postgraduates at Aberdeen

As of 9 March 2005 there are 63 postgraduates currently under supervision at Aberdeen for research degrees. This page was created to list the details of postgraduates who wished to appear in this list. At first the listing will be very incomplete. The listing also includes some postgraduates currently on taught MTh degrees.

Scot Becker
s.c.becker@abdn.ac.uk
Topic: The use of the Old Testament in the Canticles of Luke's Gospel
Supervisor: Prof. Francis Watson
Degrees: BA (Whitworth College, Spokane, Wash.); MCS (Regent College, Vancouver)

Juan F. Caraballo-Resto
j.caraballo@abdn.ac.uk
Topic: Fundamentalism, Secularism and Islam
Supervisor: Dr Gabriele Marranci
Degrees: BA (University of Puerto Rico); MLitt (Aberdeen)

Rick Conrad
div337@abdn.ac.uk
Topic: John Howard Yoder and Tomas Finger's Ecclesiology and Pneumatology
Supervisor: Prof. John Webster
Degrees: BA in Bible (Messiah College); MA in Theological Studies (Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary)

Richard E. Cornell
r.e.cornell@abdn.ac.uk
Topic: The Role of the Gospel of John in Early Patristic Trinitarianism
Supervisor: Prof. Francis Watson
Degrees: BA in Greek (Ohio University); MDiv (Asbury Theological Seminary)

Mark DeNeui
m.w.deneui@abdn.ac.uk
Topic: Social-Historical Backgrounds to Pauline Ecclesiology in 1 Corinthians
Supervisor: Dr Andrew Clarke
Degrees: BSc in Aerospace Engineering (University of Southern California), MDiv, MTh (Talbot School of Theology, Biola University)

Howard Foreman
h.k.foreman@abdn.ac.uk
Topic: Guillaume Briconnet-French Reformation
Supervisor: Dr Nick Thompson
Degrees: ThM (International School of Theology)
Publications: article in La Revue Reformée

Thomas Forster
trv.forster@abdn.ac.uk
Topic: Eduard Boehl
Supervisor: Dr Ian A. McFarland
Degrees: MTh (STH, Basel)

David Gibson
d.n.gibson@abdn.ac.uk
Topic: The doctrine of election in Calvin & Barth's use of Scripture
Supervisor: Prof. Francis Watson
Degrees: MA Systematic Theology (King's College London); BA Theology (Nottingham)
Publications: 'The God of Promise: Christian Scripture as Covenantal Revelation', Themelios 29.3 (Summer 2004), 27-36.
'For the Bible tells me so? The roles of faith and evidence in believing the Bible', in P. Duce and D. Strange (eds), Encountering God's Word: Beginning Biblical Studies (Leicester: Apollos, 2003), 191-219
'Eating is Believing? On Midrash and the Mixing of Metaphors in John 6', Themelios 27.2 (Spring 2002), 5-15

Adam S. Hammill
t02ash4@abdn.ac.uk
Topic: Interdenominational Ecumenism and its Role in Evangelism
Supervisors: Prof. John Swinton/Dr Brian Brock
Previous Degree: BS in Recording Arts (Music) (University of Southern California)

Peter Howson
petros.howson@abdn.ac.uk
Topic: Nature and Shape of British Army Chaplaincy 1860-2000
Supervisor: Dr Nick Thompson
Degrees: BSc (London); MA (Cantab.); MBA (Hull)
Publications: 'Deaths among Army Chaplains, 1914-1920', Journal of Society for Army Historical Research Vol. 83 No. 333 (Spring 2005) pp. 63-77.

Carolyn Kelly
c.e.kelly@abdn.ac.uk
Topic: George MacDonald and the Baptised Imagination (looking at the 'creative' self and revelation).
Supervisor: Dr Francesca Murphy
Prev Degrees etc: MA (Hons) (Univ. of Auckland); BD (University of Otago)
Publications: Stimulus Journal: column, and article ('Can a Feminist Call God Father?').
Conference Papers: Respondent at 'Reconsidering Orthodoxy' Conference; and The Trinity and Feminism.

Byungsun Lee
b.s.lee@abdn.ac.uk
Topic: Edward Irving
Supervisor:Dr Nick Thompson
Degrees: MDiv (Seoul Seminary); MTh (Aberdeen)

Yong-Hak Lee
y.h.lee@abdn.ac.uk
Topic: John's Christology
Supervisor: Dr Simon Gathercole
Previous Degrees and institutions from which received: BA (Anyang University); MDiv (Chongshin University & Theological Seminary); ThM in Biblical Theology (Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary)

Brian Lugioyo
b.lugioyo@abdn.ac.uk
Topic: Martin Bucer
Supervisor: Dr Nick Thompson
Degrees: MA in Biblical Studies and Theology (Fuller Theological Seminary)
Conference Papers: 'Martin Bucer and the Heidelberg Disputation (1518)', Scottish Universities Staff/Student Church History Conference (Feb. 2004).
'Martin Bucer and Article V of the Regensburg Diet (1541)', European Reformation Research Group Conference (Sept. 2004).
'Justification in Johannes Gropper's Enchiridion (1538)' Scottish Universities Staff/Student Church History Conference (Feb. 2005).

Jonathan Miles-Watson
j.miles-watson@abdn.ac.uk
Topic: Neo-Structuralist analysis of Welsh mythology
Supervisor: Prof. Seth D. Kunin
Degrees : MA 1st class honours (University of Aberdeen)
Publications: 'Adomnán Vanquisher of Binary Opposition: A Structural Analysis of the Miracles in the Second Book of Adomnán's Vita Columbae', Journal of Northern Studies vol. 38.
Conference Papers: 'Root Metaphors Revealed: The Problem of the lion in Iarlles y Ffanawyn', Fifth Annual Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, forthcoming in Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon (Cambridge University Press).

R. David Nelson
div353@abdn.ac.uk
Topic: Eberhard Jungel
Supervisor: Prof. John Webster
Degrees: MDiv (Beeson Divinity School, Samford University)

David E. Norczyk
div335@abdn.ac.uk
Topic: Economics of the Free Church of Scotland/Scottish Church History
Supervisor: Dr Nick Thompson
Degrees: MTh (Dallas Theological Seminary); BA Economics (Albion College)
Conference Papers: 'British Evangelical Identities', July 2004; Evangelical Theological Society November 2004

Jonathan Norgate
Topic: The Doctrine of Atonement in the theology of Isaac Dorner
Supervisor: Prof. John Webster
Degrees: MA Theology (Cambridge); MA Systematic Theology (King's College, London).
Publications: 'The Temple in Karl Barth', in T.D. Alexander, S.J. Gathercole, eds., Heaven on Earth: The Temple in Biblical Theology (Carlisle, UK/ Waynesboro, USA: Paternoster, 2004).

Kenneth Oakes
k.r.oakes@abdn.ac.uk
Topic: Karl Barth and the Ressourcement figures
Supervisor: Prof. John Webster
Degrees: MTS (Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary); BS, BA (Point Loma Nazarene University)
Publications: 'Temporality as Rupture and Remainder: Wesley, Pinnock and St. Thomas'
Wesleyan Theological Journal, Vol. 39, No. 2 (Fall 2004).
Conference Papers: 'A "More Real Philosophy": Barth on Theology and Philosophy', Scottish Barth Colloquium, University of Edinburgh, 28 Feb, 2005.

Rob Price
r.b.price@abdn.ac.uk
Topic: Karl Barth
Supervisor: Prof. John Webster
Degrees: MA in New Testament (Talbot School of Theology)

Ben Reynolds
b.e.reynolds@abdn.ac.uk
Topic: The Son of Man in the Gospel of John
Supervisor: Simon Gathercole
Degrees: MDiv, ThM (Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary)
Publications:
Reviews: Pattemore, Stephen. The People of God in the Apocalypse: Discourse, structure and exegesis (SNTS 128; Cambridge, 2004). Themelios 31.2 (2006) 93-94.
Dines, Jennifer. The Septuagint (T&T Clark, 2004). Themelios 31.2 (2006) 78-79.
Conference papers:
'The Apocalyptic Son of Man in John 1.51'. Johannine Literature Seminar , British New Testament Conference. Sheffield, September 2, 2006.
'The "One Like a Son of Man" in the Old Greek of Daniel 7:13-14'. Scottish Conference for Postgraduate Students in Theology and Religious Studies. Edinburgh, June 8, 2006.
'Is Dan 7.13 in the Background of John 5.27?' Annual Seminar on the Use of the Old Testament in the New Testament. St. Deiniol's Library, Hawarden, North Wales, April 8, 2006.

Christopher A. Richardson
c.a.richardson@abdn.ac.uk
Topic: Epistle to the Hebrews
Supervisor: Prof. Francis Watson
Degrees: BA (University of Texas at Austin); MDiv, ThM (Covenant Theological Seminary)

Robert L. Smith, Jr.
r.l.smith@abdn.ac.uk
Topic: Contemporary African American Church praxis and Post-modern America
Supervisor: Prof. John Swinton
Degrees: BS in Religion (Wayland Baptist University); MTh (Aberdeen)

Jeff Spivak
div308@abdn.ac.uk
Topic: The Didache: literary investigations and historical reconstructions
Supervisor: Prof. Francis Watson

Preston M. Sprinkle
p.m.sprinkle@abdn.ac.uk
Topic: The Use of Leviticus 18.5 in Early Jewish and Christian Interpretation
Supervisor: Dr Simon J. Gathercole
Degrees: BA (The Master's College); MDiv (The Master's Seminary)
Publications: 'The Old Perspective on the New Perspective: A Review of Some Pre-Sanders Thinkers', Themelios 30.2 (2005) 21-31; multiple book reviews for Themelios, European Journal of Theology, EQ, RBL, The Master’s Seminary Journal, JETS.
Conference Papers: 'Two's Company Three's a Crowd? Another Option for the Pistis Christou Debate', ETS Far West Regional Meeting, April 2003.
'Another Option for the Pistis Christou Debate: A Fresh Look at Galatians 3:22', The Tyndale Fellowship Conference, Nantwich, June 2004.
'The Use of Genesis 42:16 (Not Leviticus 18:5) in Luke 10:28: Joseph and the Good Samaritan', The Tyndale Fellowship Conference, Cambridge, July 2005.
'Law and Life: The Use of Leviticus 18.5 in Ezekiel 20 and Nehemiah 9', The Tyndale Fellowship Conference, Cambridge, July 2005.
'The Conception of Afterlife in the Epistle to the Romans', European Association of Biblical Studies Conference, Dresden, Germany, June 2005.

'The Afterlife in Romans: Pauline "Glory" in Light of the Apocalypse of Moses and 2 Baruch', in Lebendige Hoffnung ­ ewiger Tod?! Jenseitsvorstellungen im Hellenismus, Judentum und Christentum (Arbeiten zur Bibel und ihrer Geschichte 24; Evangelische Verlagsanstalt: forthcoming 2006).
' The Use of Genesis 42:18 (Not Leviticus 18:5) in Luke 10:28: Joseph and the Good Samaritan', Bulletin of Biblical Research (forthcoming 2007).
' Law and Life: Leviticus 18.5 in the Literary Framework of Ezekiel', Journal for the Study of the Old Testament (forthcoming 2007)

Nathaniel Suda
n.suda@abdn.ac.uk
Topic: A Critical Interpretation of the Theology of Colin Gunton
Supervisor: John Webster
Degrees: MTheo (St Andrews)
Conference Papers: 'Aspects of Colin Gunton's Reading of Genesis 1 and 2',  2004 Annual Conference of the Society of the Study of Theology, Exeter University, March 2004.
'Gunton's Vision of the Incarnation: A Reply to Bruce McCormack', 2004 Annual Conference of the Society of the Study of Theology, Exeter University, March 2004.
'Space, Time and Creation: Alan Torrance and Colin Gunton on Creation and Providence', 2004 Scottish Universities Postgraduate Conference, Glasgow University, May 2004.
'Foundationalism, Non-Foundationalism and Colin Gunton's Proposal of Open
Transcendentals', Society for the Study of Theology/Irish Theological Association Joint
Conference 2005, St. Patrick's College and Trinity College, Dublin, March 2005.

Gunton Research Discussion Group

Ethan Worthington
div362@abdn.ac.uk
Topic: Karl Barth's Doctrine of Sanctification
Supervisor: Prof. John Webster
Degrees: BA Church Ministry (Southeastern College), MA Church History and
Systematic Theology (Wheaton)

Jeremy Wynne
j.j.wynne@abdn.ac.uk
Topic: Wrath and the Attributes of God
Supervisor: Prof. John Webster
Degrees: BA, Religion (Whitworth College); MDiv, ThM, Doctrinal Theology (Princeton Seminary)
Publications: 'Serving the Coming God: The Insights of Jürgen Moltmann’s Eschatology for Contemporary Theology of Mission', Missiology (forthcoming).

Alfred Yuen
a.h.yuen@abdn.ac.uk
Topic: Karl Barth
Supervisor: Prof. John Webster
Degrees: BA (Honours) in Philosophy, MDiv (McMaster University)

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