Friday, May 19, 2006

Congratulations to the New DSPT Graduates!

Read Andre Delbecq's Commencement Address here or Br. Christopher Fadok's Commencement Address here.

Certificate of Theological Studies
Claire Norris and Chun Soeb Lee, S.D.B.

Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy
Karl Lupe Gonzalez, O.P., Mark Francis Manzano, O.P., Tammylee Aw Ngo, O.F.M. Conv., James Phan, O.F.M. Conv., Maria Erica Robles, V.D.M.F., Douglas Speigel, O.F.M. Conv., and Lois Vander Wende-Williams

Master of Divinity
Bernhard Blankenhorn, O.P., Patrick L. Havel, Claire Thérèse Heyne, and Chinh D. Nguyen, S.D.B.

Master of Arts (Philosophy)
Newell (Duke) I. Cutter III - “Nietzsche’s Moral Paradigms”
Christopher Paul Fadok, O.P. (With Honors) - “Looking Forward to the Past: A Plea for Thomistic Intervention in the Philosophy of Mind”

Master of Arts (Theology)
Research Emphasis
Patrick M. Finn - “Liberation from a Paradigm of Conditional Love in the Transformative Dark Night According to St. John of the Cross”
Charlotte Ann Greer, F.M.A. - “Mystical Life: The Heart of Feminine Salesian Spirituality as Experienced by Mother Rosetta Marchese, F.M.A.”
Project Emphasis
Carrie L. Skinner
Bonnie L. Soong - “Recovering Affability as a Contemporary Virtue”Integral EmphasisAnthony Richard Garcias, O.P.

Master of Arts (Philosophy ) & Master of Arts (Theology) - Concurrent Degree
Zachary J. Foreman - “Confronting Terrorism Justly: A Retrieval of the Just War Tradition and an Application to International Terrorism”

Degrees Conferred by the Graduate Theological Union in cooperation with the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology

GTU Master of Arts
Bernhard Blankenhorn, O.P. (With Honors) - “The Sacraments as Instrumental Causes of Grace:Thomas Aquinas and the Post-Modern Theology of Louis-Marie Chauvet”
Christine Louise Gutleben - “Intentional Eucharistic Food Choices”
Phillip Jeffrey Guilbeau - “Our Lady the Fleming: Late Medieval Northern European Devotional Trends and Iconographical Motives in Sixteenth-Century New Spain”