Browsing Open Access Dissertations and Theses by Title
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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 ... -
Counterfeit Money or Genuine Gift? Gift, Giving, and Salvation in the Gospel of John
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2013-12-31)This dissertation studies the concept of gift in the Gospel of John, especially as it relates to God's gift of salvation to humanity. Chapter 1 defines the problem of the gift both for New Testament studies as well as ... -
The Courtroom and the Created Order: How Penal Substitution Brings about New Creation
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2010-12)This dissertation argues that penal substitutionary atonement is necessary for transformation of the created order. This assertion answers the charge that an atonement model that deals with forensic judgments, the moment ... -
Covenant and Identity Formation in the Second Century
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2023-12)This study examines the use of the covenant concept in second-century texts that address three primary social and rhetorical contexts for early Christian identity formation: Judaism, Greco-Roman culture, and heterodoxy. ... -
Covenant as a framework for understanding the primary divorce and remarriage texts in the New Testament
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2004-09-16)This dissertation identifies covenant as a primary framework for understanding marriage in the Bible and the divorce and remarriage texts of the New Testament. Chapter 1 defines the need for such a work and provides a basic ... -
Covenant, Typology, and the Story of Joseph: A Literary-Canonical Examination of Genesis 37-50
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2016-12-23)This dissertation defends the notion that Joseph, understood according to a literary-canonical analysis, functions as the resolution to the plot of Genesis and that this story typologically influences how later biblical ... -
Covenantal Culmination: Why the New Covenant Documents Signify the Cessation of Normative Post-Apostolic Revelation
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2025-05)This thesis argues that post-apostolic revelation should not be a normative expectation for New Covenant believers on the basis of the intersection between covenant, canon, and the function of prophecy. Chapter 1 addresses ... -
Creating a Lay Ministry Team to Care for Those Who Are Grieving at Southside Church of Christ, Dresden, Tennessee
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1998)The purpose of this project was to create a non-professional "lay-member-team" of Christian caregivers at Southside Church of Christ, Dresden, Tennessee, to help individuals and families process grief after the ... -
Creating and Nurturing a Culture of Adoption and Orphan Care in the Local Church: A Multiple Case Study
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2016-01-12)ABSTRACT CREATING AND NURTURING A CULTURE OF ADOPTION AND ORPHAN CARE IN THE LOCAL CHURCH: A MULTIPLE CASE STUDY Randall Damon Burns, Ed.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2015 Chair: ... -
A Critical Analysis of Mary Warnock's Argument for the Exclusion of Religious Arguments from Public Moral Discourse
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2017-05-31)ABSTRACT A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF MARY WARNOCK’S ARGUMENT FOR THE EXCLUSION OF RELIGIOUS ARGUMENTS FROM PUBLIC MORAL DISCOURSE Mark Wayne Warnock, Ph.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2017 Chair: ... -
A Critical Analysis of Preaching in the Emerging Church
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2011-05-16)This dissertation critiques the preaching of the revisionists within the emerging church arguing that they redefine truth and displace the authority of Scripture. This argument is presented by defining biblical preaching, ... -
A Critical Analysis of Southern Baptist Hispanic Church-Planting Strategies in North America, 1970-1994
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2013-12-31)This dissertation analyzes and critically evaluates Southern Baptist Hispanic church-planting strategies in North America during the period of 1970-1994. This twenty-five-year study demonstrates that these years were both ... -
A critical analysis of the purpose-driven hermeneutic of Rick Warren
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2005-04-22)This dissertation analyzes Rick Warren's hermeneutic based on his writings, conferences, sermons, and Bible studies. Chapter 1 introduces the topic giving special attention to Warren's popularity and the need for an ... -
A Critical Analysis of the Theological Method of F. Leron Shults
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2012-05-23)ABSTRACT A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE THEOLOGICAL METHOD OF F. LERON SHULTS Joshua Philip Boswell, Ph.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2012 Chair: Dr. Stephen J. Wellum This dissertation ... -
A Critical Assessment of Modern Qazaqs’ Historical Claim That Islam Is the Ancestral Faith
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2023-04-19)After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Qazaq people embarked on the journey of reinstating their authentic ethnic and cultural identity. After a thirty-year quest for true Qazaqness, many came to believe that ... -
A Critical Edition of the Hexaplaric Fragments of Genesis
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2021-04-28)The aim of this project is to present an updated critical edition of the hexaplaric fragments for the book of Genesis. The reconstruction, nevertheless, will not be presented in its columnar order, which Origen originally ... -
A Critical Edition of the Hexaplaric Fragments of Job 22-42
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2012-05-23)Primarily, this dissertation provides a critical text of the hexaplaric fragments of Job 22-42, which updates the previous editions of Field (1875) and Ziegler (1982), and which may serve as the fascicle for the second ... -
A critical edition of the hexaplaric fragments of Job: Chapters 1-21
(2009-12-15)The dissertation provides a critical edition of the hexaplaric fragments for the first twenty-one chapters of the book of Job, recording the diacritical marks and the attributions Aquila (α'), Symmachus (σ'), and Theodotion ... -
A Critical Edition of the Hexaplaric Fragments of Numbers 19-36
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2011-05-16)This dissertation provides a critical edition of the hexaplaric fragments of Number 19-36, including (1) Aristarchan signs, (2) attributions to Aquila, Symmachus, and Theodotion, and (3) other materials traditionally ... -
A Critical Examination of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association's Ministry of Equipping Evangelists Via the Amsterdam Conferences
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2017-09-22)ABSTRACT A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF THE BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION’S MINISTRY OF EQUIPPING EVANGELISTS VIA THE AMSTERDAM CONFERENCES Brian David Bohannon, Ph.D. The Southern Baptist Theological ...