SACRAMENTS OF THE INCARNATE WORD - ETD - University of ...

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I am grateful to the Theology Department of the University of Notre Dame for its
unflagging support of graduate students, and for the ethos of mutual labor in service of
Christian understanding that pervades its mission. Thanks especially to my adviser,
Joseph Wawrykow, for a plenitude of patience, advocacy, and wise intelligence; to Cyril
O’Regan and John Cavadini, for steadfast kindness, generosity, and courage; and to the
Director of Graduate Studies, Matt Ashley, for gracious propriety.
Thanks also are due to the Episcopal Church Foundation for their support of my
work from 2005-2008, and to Dean Joseph Britton (Berkeley Divinity School at Yale)
and the Rt Rev Edward S. Little (Episcopal Diocese of Northern Indiana) for supporting
my application. The dissertation was brought to completion with the generous support of
the dioceses of Northern Indiana and Dallas.
To all the loved ones who have formed me through sustained conversation and
correction in common study and prayer over a period of more than ten years in
Northfield, London, New Haven, South Bend, Grand Rapids, and Dallas—especially Fr
Jeffrey Njus, Shawn Colberg, Caleb Congrove, and Damon McGraw: the gift of your
faithfulness has taught me to cherish the present embodiment of our common hope and to
long for its promised end.
To Mom, Dad, and Johno, my longeststanding companions on the way, and to
Carrie: you have, by your sacrificial constancy, shown me the passion of God’s love.
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