Academic Essays
I’ve compiled a selection of essays written for my graduate classes. Here are some long form writings that are heavily researched and more academically focused.
Harm Reduction as an Exercise
of Amipotence
This essay explores how harm reduction public health philosophy aligns with amipotence.
The Curse of
Being Alive
This historical narrative essay focuses around the Pelagian controversy and the solidification of Original Sin in the Western Church.
Christ in Capital
The rise and fall of the Social Gospel Movement
in 19th and 20th century America.
For God and the People
A brief look at Walter Rauschenbusch and the work of the Social Gospel.
The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark
Looking at the scholarship of Dennis MacDonald around the similarities of Jesus and Homer.
Shifting Jesus:
How Time and Audience Changed Jesus
Jesus changes through the Gospels and early Christian writing based on the audience for which it was wirtten.
The Abraham Narrative: Faithful or Fearful?
Revisiting the faithful interpretation of the Abraham Narrative skeptically through narrative criticism.
The God Who Is:
Knowing God
How do we know God is real? How has modernity changed the way we know God?