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Hebrew Verbal System and the Use of Weqatal and Wayyiqtol in Discourse-Thematic Analysis
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2025)This dissertation employs Conceptual Projection Theory to uncover the prototypical features of the Hebrew verb forms qatal, yiqtol, weqatal, and wayyiqtol. The theory encourages viewing the prefixed waw of weqatal and ... -
Whatever Is Done in Secret: A Christian Moral Analysis of a Right to Privacy for a Digital Age
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2025)In this project, the right to privacy is argued to be an inherent aspect of being human, flowing from humanity’s being created in the imago Dei and the corresponding nature of human rights and duties. Chapter 1 situates ... -
Fulfilling the Image of God: A Biblical Framework for a Christocentric Natural Law Theory and Human Flourishing
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2025)What is a proper biblical description of the relationship between the natural law and humanity’s status as image bearers of God? In this dissertation, I contend that the imago Dei and the natural law hold a complementary ... -
From Him and Through Him and to Him: A Dogmatic Account of Participation in God
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2025)In this dissertation, I offer a constructive account of participation in God, drawing specifically from Thomas Aquinas and the Reformed orthodox. Such a conception of participation, I argue, is ontologically grounded grammar ... -
God and Nature: Retrieving Herman Bavinck's Approach to Natural Theology
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2025)This dissertation offers a constructive and Christian theological account of the project of natural theology, especially by putting Herman Bavinck in dialogue with contemporary alternatives today. In its methodology, the ... -
Native Knowing, Western Knowing, and Biblical Knowing: Developing an Integrated Epistemology for Missions
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2025)Since the last half of the twentieth century, missiologists have recognized the need to shift away from Enlightenment epistemologies in order to develop contextualized missionary practices. Prominent missiologists Lesslie ... -
The Treasury of Solomon: A Retrieval of Charles H. Spurgeon’s (1834–1892) Spirituality of the Song of Songs
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2025)In this dissertation, I argue that Charles H. Spurgeon, in light of his Christ-centered hermeneutical and homiletical convictions, practiced the spiritual, christological interpretation of the Song of Songs, and that his ... -
"Put on the Lord Jesus Christ": A Study of Clothing Metaphors in Paul's Ethics
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2025)This dissertation explores the meaning and cognitive function of Paul’s clothing metaphors in his ethical teachings, employing select concepts from modern metaphor theory. I argue that Paul’s clothing metaphors in three ... -
Church and Empire in the Theology of Hippolytus of Rome
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2025)In this study, I explore Hippolytus of Rome’s views on church and empire within the context of his theology. My central thesis is that Hippolytus’s apocalyptic vision of Christ as the image of God profoundly shaped his ... -
“From the Beginning”: Christology and Ethics in 1 John
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2025)This project examines the passages where John uses ἀρχή exclusively with ἀπό (and hence ἀπ᾽ ἀρχῆς, “from the beginning,” FTB) in 1 John in light of understanding its Christology and ethics. I argue that John uses the phrase ... -
Natural Law and Virtue Ethics in Justin Martyr
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2025)This study contends that due to the natural law’s universal knowability, Justin used it to construct an apologetic within an eudaimonistic account of Christian virtue that served his political, theological, and evangelistic ... -
From Sodom to Gehenna: The Old Testament Typology of Sodom and Gomorrah as God’s Eschatological Judgment
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2025)This thesis attempts to enter the larger scholarly conversation about biblical typology and OT typology specifically. Significant studies have been done on the NT author’s use of typology in explaining the OT and its ... -
The Priesthood of All Believers in the Work of John Livingston Nevius
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2025)The landscape of missions has shifted dramatically in recent years. Due to greater restrictions on access to unreached countries and peoples, the majority of missionaries have had to change both their location and ministry ... -
An Exemplary and Reproducible Sermon Preparation Method Utilizing Logos Bible Software
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2025)From individuals to institutions, many are embracing the use of Bible software technology for studying, interpreting, and preaching the Bible, but not fully understanding the impact and implications for the exegetical ... -
The Church as Instrumental to the Restoration of Personal Identity
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Church Ministries, 2025)This dissertation describes how relational shalom—the proper interrelatedness of all creation under the triune God, fully present in the created order—was corrupted at the fall by sin, resulting in each image bearer orienting ... -
Retrieving Eternal Procession: A Dogmatic Western Account of the Holy Spirit’s Relation to the Father and the Son in the Triune God’s Divine Life
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2025)In this dissertation, I argue for the necessity of orthodox Christianity (1) to clarify the meaning of the doctrine of the Holy Spirit’s eternal procession from the Father and the Son, and subsequently, because of contemporary ... -
All Creatures Great and Small: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Function of Animals in Biblical Texts
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2025)This dissertation identifies and analyzes all 3,805 references to animals in the Bible and categorizes them according to their function. Proof texts can be used to justify either an anthropocentric or ecocentric perspective ... -
Evaluating Holistic Formation Strategies and Objectives in Christian Gap Year Programs: A Mixed Methods Multiple Case Study
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Church Ministries, 2025)The Christian gap year experience presents young adults with an immersive, diverse, and experiential educational and growth opportunity in a season of life brimming with change and potentialities. While the gap year concept ... -
A psychology of the mourners' bench as found in the Jasper Baptist Association (North Georgia)
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The King-Father: A Biblical Theology of God as Both King and Father Over His Kingdom Children
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2025-05)In this project, I argue that the dual-themed royal-family image of God as the King and Father over his kingdom-children is the consistent witness of Scripture and a necessary foundation for teaching and applying biblical ...