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Item Open Access Minutes.(1877)Item Open Access A history of the Elkhorn Association of Missionary Baptists in Kentucky(The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1905)Item Open Access Enseñando a Los Maestros Laicos a Predicar Expositivamente En First Missionary Baptist Church Bellflower, California(The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2026-04)Esta tesis tiene como propósito enseñar el fundamento teológico y práctico de la predicación expositiva como el método que deben usar los maestros laicos al predicar y enseñar. En el capítulo 1 se presenta el contexto ministerial, la justificación y los objetivos del proyecto. El capítulo 2 se desarrolla la base bíblica y teológica de la predicación expositiva, se abordan cinco textos bíblicos del Nuevo Testamento como convicción bíblica. En el capítulo 3 se desarrolla la naturaleza de la parte teórica y práctica de la predicación expositiva. El capítulo 4 describe la ejecución del proyecto curso de ocho semanas para los maestros laicos. Por último, el capítulo 5 presenta la evaluación del proyecto y la proyección ministerial a largo plazo. El propósito final es que los maestros laicos de FMBC sean enseñados en la predicación expositiva.Item Open Access Incorporating Christian Spirituality Into the Master of Divinity Program at Mid-America Reformed Seminary in Dyer, Indiana(The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2026-05)This project sought to incorporate Christian spirituality into the educational program at Mid-America Reformed Seminary in Dyer, Indiana. Chapter 1 presents the history and ministry context of Mid-America Reformed Seminary and the goals of this project. Chapter 2 provides exegesis of four passages of Scripture (Matt 22:34-40; 1 Tim 4:1–5; Titus 2:11–14; 1 Pet 2:11–12) to define the nature of Christian spirituality and its role in the development of godliness in Christian ministry. Chapter 3 examines the historical and theoretical basis for the incorporation of Christian spirituality in seminary education. Chapter 4 describes the implemented project, carefully recounting the goals, methodology employed, and results of the research. Chapter 5 evaluates the efficacy of the project based on completion of the specified goals.Item Open Access The Pastor as a Trinitarian Apologist in the Orations of Gregory the Theologian(The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2026-05)This study argues that for Gregory the Theologian, the pastor has a primary duty to preach in defense of the Trinity. In chapter 1, I give a brief introduction to this project by outlining the relevant works and the way that this project will interact with them. I deal with the works in a largely chronological order, progressing through the Church’s reflection on Gregory. In chapter 2, I examine Gregory’s view of the pastor primarily through the lens of Oration 2. I show that the lived theology of the pastor must be Trinitarian at heart. Thus, if one is to be a pastor, he must be able to articulate and defend the doctrine of the Trinity. I conclude this chapter by drawing together the threads of theosis, preaching, and doctrine, to show that Gregory saw the pastor as one who deified believers through regulating their opinions on doctrine, which required defense of the Trinity. In chapter 3, I focus on Gregory’s funeral Orations for his father and Athanasius. The goal of this chapter is to examine Gregory’s understanding of pastors prior to him and show that he saw them as Trinitarian defenders of the church. This chapter concludes with observations about Gregory’s understanding of continuity and discontinuity between himself and the pastors of the past. In chapter 4, I will focus on his approach to philosophy, Scripture, and theology as shown in Oration 20 and the Theological Orations. The goal of this chapter will be to show that for Gregory the Trinity is the heart of his life and thought. This will be shown in respective chapters through his commitment to theosis as the true end of the philosophical life, his hermeneutical maneuvers when approaching theology, and his articulation of doctrine. In chapter 5, I will use Gregory’s time in Constantinople as an example of Gregory practicing what he preached. Through placing Gregory’s preaching back in its apologetic background, I will restore a proper balance to our reception of Gregory’s thought, which does not favor articulation or defense of the Trinity, choosing instead to hold the two in consort by observing the golden mean laid down by Gregory himself. I will then give an examination of Gregory’s appropriation of Basil as the example par excellence of Gregory’s insistence that proper pastoral ministry includes defense of the Trinity. This chapter concludes with Gregory’s retirement from ministry and his continued defense of the Trinity in retirement. In chapter 6, this study draws to a close by summarizing the main arguments of the work, offering applications for my findings, and areas for further research. In so doing, I seek to offer support for modern preaching that defends the Trinity by drawing out some similarities between our modern context and Gregory’s. I end by offering Gregory as a model for pastoral ministry in a pluralistic age.
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