Browsing Open Access Dissertations and Theses by Title
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A narrative-critical reading of God as a character in the Gospel of Matthew
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2005-10-10)This dissertation examines the function of God as a character, and how the characterization of God works within the narrative of the Gospel of Matthew. Chapter 1 presented a rationale for the study of God as a character. ... -
The Necessity of a Christocentric, Kingdom-Focused Model of Expository Preaching
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2011-12-14)ABSTRACT THE NECESSITY OF A CHRISTOCENTRIC KINGDOM-FOCUSED MODEL OF EXPOSITORY PREACHING David E. Prince, PH.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2011 Chairperson: Dr. Russell D. Moore The ... -
The Negative Motif of the Sea in the Old Testament
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2019-05-09)This dissertation demonstrates that the sea is consistently a negative motif in the OT. Chapter 2 introduces Hermann Gunkel because he wrote the foundational work on the topic of the chaotic sea in the OT. He argued that ... -
A Neo-Tolstoyan Response to Kitsch
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2018-11-16)Leo Tolstoy’s aesthetic theory in What is Art? defines art as the transmission of emotion through the creation of an object. Awareness of Tolstoy’s history and beliefs extends a more generous understanding to some of his ... -
The New Covenant in Ephesians
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2014-05-16)This dissertation maintains that the new covenant was a significant soteriological, ecclesiological, and ethical category in Paul's theology. Using Ephesians as a test case, it analyzes the relevant texts where Paul seems ... -
A New Freshman Composition Pedagogy for Christian Colleges and Universities
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2018-01-02)Freshman composition instructors at Christian institutions face a disturbing predicament: competing pedagogies, administrative pressure to prove freshman composition’s merit, public clamoring for greater return on the ... -
The New Interpretation of Democracy
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New Testament Persecution and the Inception of Diokology through the Application of the Regnal Righteousness Dynamic
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2010-05)This dissertation seeks to derive a biblical definition of Christian persecution which both identifies the essential character of Christian persecution and offers a pragmatic application of the definition in Christian ... -
The Non-Ending Search for a Pre-DNA Replicator: Richard Dawkins and the Problem of Abiogenesis
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2014-05-16)This dissertation provides a rebuttal to the claims of Richard Dawkins in explaining the origin of life. The bulk of the ensuing analysis challenges his philosophical assumptions as it notes his vacillation between several ... -
Northern Thai Theravada Folk Buddhism through the Eyes of Buddhist Background Believers
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2018-11-16)NORTHERN THAI THERAVADA FOLK BUDDHISM THROUGH THE EYES OF BUDDHIST BACKGROUND BELIEVERS Nicholas Blaine Walburn, PhD The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2018 Chair: Dr. George H. Martin The research ... -
Old Testament characters as Christological witnesses in the Fourth Gospel
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2006-11-01)This dissertation examines the Christological witness function of the Old Testament characters in the Gospel of John. Chapter 1 discusses the problem concomitant to the bi-partite nature of the Christian Bible and the ... -
On the Origin of Beauty and the Human Ability to Perceive It
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2017-05-31)On the Origin of Beauty and the Human Ability to Perceive it William Earl Elkins, Jr., Ph.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2017 Chair: Dr. Mark T. Coppenger This dissertation examines the ... -
One Church in One Location: Questioning the Biblical, Theological, and Historical Claims of the Multi-Site Church Movement
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2012-12-14)This dissertation argues that a multi-site church that is not characterized by campus-wide gatherings does not have a sound biblical or theological basis for considering itself one church and is inconsistent with historic ... -
“One of Life and One of Death”: A Critical Assessment of Apocalypticism in the Didache’s Two Ways
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2018-02-19)This dissertation seeks to answer the following question: If ancient Jewish and Christian Two Ways texts have a common literary structure and reoccurring apocalyptic dualisms, how and why does the Didache neglect to frame ... -
Only the Messenger: Donald Grey Barnhouse's Illustrative Preaching as a Commitment to Biblical Authority
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2019-11-11)This dissertation answers the question of how Donald Grey Barnhouse’s sermon illustrations served his homiletical commitment to the authority of the Bible. Illustrations communicate truth “by the shortest route and in the ... -
Order and Ardor: The Revival Spirituality of Regular Baptist Oliver Hart, 1723–1795
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2016-01-12)ABSTRACT ORDER AND ARDOR: THE REVIVAL SPIRITUALITY OF REGULAR BAPTIST OLIVER HART, 1723–1795 Eric Coleman Smith, Ph.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2015 Chair: Dr. Michael A. G. Haykin This ... -
The Organic Unity of Revelation: Towards a Biblical, Historical, and Theological Understanding of the External and Internal Nature of Revelation
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2015-06-18)Because of the neglect and dichotomization in evangelical theology, this dissertation provides an evangelical ressourcement for the external and internal reality of revelation. By using resources from Scripture, the history ... -
The Origin and Development in Virginia of the Concept of Separation of Church and State
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Our father in heaven: The dimensions of divine paternity in Deuteronomy
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2005-11-12)This dissertation proposes that Deuteronomy portrays the role of divine paternity in three dimensions; progenitor, caregiver, and covenant partner. After presenting the history of the research in chapter 1, this study ... -
Our Savior and King: Theology proper in 1 Timothy
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2008-11-17)In this dissertation the author seeks to present a holistic theology proper (hereafter, simply "theology") for the first epistle to Timothy, with special regard to the letter's doxologies (King) and divine title, Savior. ...