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What to Do About the Dreamer? A Theological Evaluation of Dreams and Visions That Aid Muslim Conversions to Christianity
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2024-12)There are increasing reports of dream or vision experiences that significantly influence or aid Muslim conversions to Christianity. These experiences elicit many questions about how one should evaluate, receive, affirm, ... -
The Martyr as Model in John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2024-12)John Foxe’s Actes and Monuments of These Latter Perilous Days Touching on the Matters of the Church is without doubt one of the most influential books of the English Reformation. Under its more colloquial name, “Foxe’s ... -
Digital Media Use and the Christian Formation of College Students: A Case Study
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2024-12)Digital and social media have become incorporated into daily life as access to the internet has increased. Every invention has the possibility of positive and negative effects and influences. As educators seek to disciple ... -
Children’s Catechisms as Resources for Discipleship and Apologetics in England, 1549–1642
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2024-12)The text-based thesis examines how catechisms, specifically adapted for use with children, functioned as a tool for the discipleship of children’s faith and were used apologetically to defend Christian doctrine within the ... -
De Impassibilitate Et Satisfactione: An Examination of the Methodological Implications of Trinitarian Classical Theism for the Doctrine of the Atonement
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2024-12)Two trends are taking place in evangelical theology. First, the last decade has borne witness to a renaissance of Trinitarian theology. Books have proliferated regarding social and classical Trinitarianism with a marked ... -
Finding God Within: A Systemization and Evaluation of the Writings of Warren Felt Evans
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2024-12)This dissertation systematizes and evaluates the published and unpublished writings of nineteenth-century religious philosopher Warren Felt Evans. Evans was the first published writer for the metaphysical religious movement ... -
The Redemptive Function of Theological Anthropology for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Biblical Counseling
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Church Ministries, 2024-12)Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a psychological category that aims to describe the condition of a person who regularly experiences unwanted, intense, and distressing ruminations or obsessions that are temporarily ... -
A Widow’s Hope in Late-Life Spousal Loss: A Biblical Response to Meaning-Making and Continuing Spiritual Bonds
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2024-12)Widowhood is considered one of the most stressful and life-altering experiences that can cause a loss of meaning and purpose in life. Bereavement brings mortality to the forefront, raising questions related to life’s ... -
Counseling in the Spirit of Christ: Union With Christ and the Pneumatology of Biblical Counseling
(School of Missions and Evangelism, 2024-12)Biblical counseling happens in union with Christ by the Spirit as believers speak the truth of God in the love of God to the people of God so that they may become more and more mature in Christ. A pneumatology of biblical ... -
A Theological Framework for Assessing Verbal Oppression in Marriage
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2024-12)In this dissertation, I argue that because language originates in the triune God, married image bearers are commanded to use language in ways that reflect God’s character, function according to his purposes, and conform ... -
Edmund Burke’s Moral Imagination: Interpretation and Cultivation
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2024-12)This dissertation argues that the faculty of imagination is crucial to Burke’s view of man, the sublime and beautiful, the arts, morality, society, and politics and that, therefore, the cultivation of a moral imagination ... -
The Catholicity of the Church: Pneumatological Exclusivism for the Universal Presence of Christ in the People of God
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2024-12)Over against pneumatological inclusivism arguing for the possibility of salvation of religious others in particular and the unevangelized in general, this dissertation champions pneumatological exclusivism for the constitution ... -
Explaining Ezekiel’s Enigmatic Muteness
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2024-12)This dissertation explains the nature and significance of the prophet Ezekiel’s muteness as mentioned in Ezekiel 3:22–27, 24:25–27, and 33:21–22. It addresses the paradox of Ezekiel prophesying in verbal address and apparent ... -
Confessionalism and Cooperation in the Baptist Movement, 1609–1925
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2024-12)Baptists came confessing and Baptists came cooperating. But historically, what is the relationship between the two? For more than four hundred years of the Baptist movement across two continents, confession and cooperation ... -
A Comparative Study of Yoga’s Most Foundational Scriptures and Relevant Biblical Passages
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2024-12)This dissertation is an analysis of yoga’s most foundational scriptures: the Patanjali Yoga Sūtras (PYS) and the Bhagavad Gītā (BG) in their original Sanskrit. My thesis is that these yogic scriptures contradict sound, ... -
Ezekiel 26 as a Case Study for Interpreting Problematic Prophecy
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2024-12)This dissertation argues that rather than describing Tyre’s literal destruction, Ezekiel employs formulaic language to stylize Tyre’s judgment after the pattern of YHWH’s judgment against Israel and those who opposed it. ... -
A Distinguished Blessing of Grace: Abraham Booth’s Doctrine of Sanctification in Confessional Context
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2024-12)This dissertation focuses on the life and thought of the eighteenth-century Particular Baptist pastor-theologian Abraham Booth (1734–1806) and offers the first dedicated study of Booth’s doctrine of sanctification and its ... -
“Very Tender and Earnest in Prayer”: Andrew Fuller, a Man of Prayer
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2024-12)This dissertation argues that Andrew Fuller (1754–1815) serves as a model for spirituality, and particularly in the practice of prayer. His life as a husband, father, pastor, missionary society leader, and theologian brings ... -
The Competent Church Planting Pastor in Southern Baptist Convention Churches: A Mixed Method Study
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2024-12)There is a strong and growing emphasis on church planting in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). Simultaneously, church membership, attendance, and baptism are on the decline. The increase in church planting and the ... -
Determining the Differences and Similarities Between Christian and Secular Universities in Preparing Students for Ethical Leadership in Corporate America: A Qualitative Content Analysis Study
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Ministries and Evangelism, 2024-12)This descriptive study explored the differences and similarities between Christian and secular universities’ approaches to educating and developing ethical business leaders for work in the marketplace. This study used a ...