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The Open Access Dissertations and Theses Collection consists of electronic versions of dissertations and theses produced by students of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
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The Hermeneutics of Eschatological Fulfillment in Christ: Biblical-Theological Exegesis in the Epistle to the Hebrews
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2017-01-06)This dissertation addresses the use of the OT in Hebrews using an author-oriented and biblical-theological approach. The thesis advanced is that the author of Hebrews cites and alludes to the OT in a manner that is warranted ... -
"Scripture Is Both the Glosse and the Text": Biblical Interpretation and Its Implementation in the Works of William Perkins
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2017-04-28)William Perkins expounded Scripture throughout his works according to the method presented in The Arte of Prophecying. This intense scriptural focus emanated from Perkins’s belief that Scripture was God’s Word and the only ... -
"Promoting Pure and Undefiled Religion": John Ryland, Jr. (1753–1825) and Edwardsean Evangelical Biography
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2017-12-12)In the preface to the 1749 publication of The Life of David Brainerd, Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) explains the benefit of recounting exemplary lives: “There are two ways of representing and recommending true religion and ... -
Studies in Septuagint Leviticus: Linguistics, Tradition, and Lexical Choice
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2018-07-11)This thesis investigates three features of Septuagint Leviticus’ Greek text as a means to better understand the translator, his world, and his text. After an introductory chapter, chapter 2 shows that the valency of Hebrew ... -
The Presuppositional Hermeneutic: An Argument for Interpreting and Preaching the Bible with Authority
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2019-05-02)ABSTRACT THE PRESUPPOSITIONAL HERMENEUTIC: AN ARGUMENT FOR INTERPRETING AND PREACHING THE BIBLE WITH AUTHORITY Jonathan Daniel Anderson, Ph.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2019 Chair: Dr. Robert A. ... -
A Cultural Study of the City of Antsiranana and the Response of the Church to Traditional Religion
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2019-04-15)This thesis examines ATR in the city of Antsiranana in Northern Madagascar. I wanted to discover how the church responds to ATR and makes disciples of men and women from an ATR. The purpose was to discover a biblical ... -
Mysterion and the Salvation of "All Israel" in Romans 9-11
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2019-04-23)The aim of this study is to build upon the emerging consensus that the Pauline mystery is rooted in a Jewish apocalyptic context, reflecting a “once hidden, now revealed” schema. For Paul, this mystery schema divides history ... -
From Orr to Zacharias and Beyond: An Approach Toward Christian Apologetics from the Purview of Worldview Truth-Testing
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2019-05-06)This dissertation considers an approach toward Christian apologetics that tests the veracity of truth-claims from within the scope of entire worldviews, demonstrating how it is an effective approach for validating ... -
John R. Rice and Evangelism: An Essential Mark of Independent Baptist Fundamentalism
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2019-05-07)ABSTRACT JOHN R. RICE AND EVANGELISM: AN ESSENTIAL MARK OF INDEPENDENT BAPTIST FUNDAMENTALISM Matthew Lee Lyon, Ph.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2019 Chair: Dr. Thomas J. Nettles This ... -
“A Bond Between Souls”: Understanding Spiritual Friendship in Augustine of Hippo with Special Reference to His Letters
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2019-05-07)This dissertation argues that especially in his letters, Augustine conceived of spiritual friendship as an outflow of Christian love, integral to the Christian life for the purpose of building Christ-like virtue and ... -
Looking at Illegal Immigration in the United States through the Lenses of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2019-05-10)The United States is a sovereign nation formed by immigrants from its very beginnings. Today, the U.S. is a nation proud of its diversity, formed of people of various backgrounds—race, nationality, education, religious ... -
Pastoral Preaching: A Reformation and Redefinition of a Pastor’s Call to Preach for the Purpose of Sanctification
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2019-04-16)Chapter 1 introduces the dissertation’s thesis, highlights its methodology and establishes its goals. The dissertation argues that pastoral preaching is any preaching in the setting of a local congregation where the pastor ... -
“You Only Have I Known”: Social Identity and the Book of Amos
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2019-03-19)This dissertation assesses how the book of Amos shapes the social identity of its audience. Chapter 1 contextualizes this project in Amos scholarship and shows the relevance of this study. Chapter 2 introduces the Social ... -
"That Which Is Not Assumed Is Not Healed": A Dogmatic Response to Recent Formulations of the Son's Assumption of a Fallen Human Nature
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2019-03-26)This dissertation contends that those who argue for the Son’s assumption of a fallen human nature are mistaken, because they work with a faulty notion of the nature of the hypostatic union, or revert Trinitarian order, or ... -
A Functional Description of the Discourse Marker Δε in 1 Corinthians
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2019-05-01)The first chapter focuses on the background for and the thesis of the present study. It lists researches on the discourse analysis and the traditional historical-comparative approach; the discourse markers in the Greek NT; ... -
The Place of Union with Christ in the Theology and Practice of Marriage
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2019-05-03)This dissertation argues that the union between Christ and the church is given as a model of the participation between a husband and wife within a marriage because the nature of the marriage relationship and the relationship ... -
Affective Social Neurobiology and Student Formation in Christian Higher Education Institutions: A Transdisciplinary Multimethod Study
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2019-05-09)This multimethod study utilizes methods of grounded qualitative meta-analysis and transdisciplinary textual analysis to examine the extent to which the phenomenon of student spiritual formation at Christian higher education ... -
Mr. Valiant for Truth: The Polemic of Charles Haddon Spurgeon as Pastor-Theologian During the Downgrade Controversy (1887-1892)
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2019-05-03)The primary purpose of this dissertation is to answer the question: what was the polemic of Charles Haddon Spurgeon during the Downgrade Controversy? This question is best answered using the Vanhoozer/Strachan paradigm of ... -
A Comparative Content Analysis of Worship Leader Job Descriptions and Undergraduate Worship Leader Curricula in the Southern Baptist Convention
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Church Ministries, 2019-05-01)The purpose of this research was to determine the characteristics described in worship leader job descriptions in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) and examine the correspondence of these characteristics with worship ... -
The Use of Nakedness Imagery as Theological Language in the Old Testament
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2019-04-25)This dissertation argues that nakedness language in the OT powerfully communicates theological information to the reader because of its inherent association with shame at the level of basic human experience. This dissertation ...