Browsing Open Access Dissertations and Theses by Title
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The Evolution of Homiletic Instruction at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary From John Broadus to Charles Gardner
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2024-05)This thesis describes the evolution of homiletic instruction at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary across the tenures of its first three preaching professors, John Broadus, Edwin Dargan, and Charles Gardner, and ... -
An Examination of Richard Owen Roberts’s Theology of Revival
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2018-01-02)This dissertation examines Richard Owen Roberts’s (1931-) life and ministry to present his theology of revival. Chapter 1 examines the need for clarity in the topic of revival for the church today. It discusses my background ... -
Examining the Ecclesiological Soundness of the Southern Baptist Multisite Church Movement
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2019-10-16)ABSTRACT EXAMINING THE ECCLESIOLOGICAL SOUNDNESS OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST MULTISITE CHURCH MOVEMENT Dennis Kyle Sullivan, PhD The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2019 Chair: Dr. Timothy K. Beougher This ... -
Executive pastors' perception of leadership and management competencies needed for local church administration
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2004-05-14)This dissertation examines leadership and management competencies of Southern Baptist mega-church executive pastors. The study discusses the issue of limited research on the position of the executive pastor. Resources ... -
Expectation and Fulfillment of the Gift of the Holy Spirit in the Gospel of John
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2010-12-13)This study seeks to delineate the pneumatological themes that the author of John develops to create expectation and demonstrate fulfillment of the gift of the Holy Spirit. The primary question asked in this investigation ... -
An exploration of the relationship between a process-driven design for church ministry and church growth
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2005-05-04)This study formally explores the nature of the relationship between church growth and a process-driven design for church ministry. From extensive literature on church growth, church leadership, and process, four elements ... -
Exploring the Impact of Secondary Educational Contexts on College Student Formation and Development
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2018-01-02)The intent of this study was to explore the impact of secondary educational contexts on college student formation and development. Semi-structured interviews were employed in order to elicit information from participants ... -
Exploring the Role and Efficacy of Seminary Language Curricula
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2019-12-04)The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the role(s) and efficacy of biblical language studies in evangelical MDiv curricula. Six language professors, and twenty-four students who were in their last year of ... -
Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus: The Relationship between Ecclesiology and Soteriology for Cyprian of Carthage
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2021-04-30)Cyprian wrote his treatise De ecclesiae catholicae unitate to discuss the relationship between the church and salvation. To counter the Novatian schism in Rome, Cyprian virtually equated the spiritual and visible church. ... -
Factors in expository preaching that influence attention, comprehension and retention levels
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2006-05-18)The gathered data in this research provides pastors, Christian educators, and other educators with a better understanding of multi-sensory teaching and advanced multi-sensory teaching and their influence on the cognitive ... -
Factors Relating to Diminished Confidence in Core Christian Doctrines among Students in Private Colleges and Universities: a Mixed Methods Study
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Church Ministries, 2021-03-26)The purpose of this mixed methods study was to determine areas where students attending private colleges or universities found themselves least equipped to defend core Christian doctrines of the faith to define areas that ... -
Factors Relating to Diminished Confidence in Core Christian Doctrines Among Students in Public Colleges and Universities: A Mixed Methods Study
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2021-03-30)The purpose of this research study was to explore factors relating to diminished confidence in core Christian doctrines among public college students. Research reports thirty to sixty percent of young adults spiritually ... -
The faith of Jesus Christ: an analysis of Paul's use of pistis Christou
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2003-12-01)[Greek words romanized in title and description] This dissertation defends the thesis that the Pauline phrase, pistis Christou ("faith of Christ" [Rom 3:22,26; Gal 2:16, 20; 3:22; Phil 3:9; Eph 3:12]), in its various contexts, ... -
Faith, obedience, and justification: Current evangelical departures from sola fide
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2005-05-12)The thesis of this study is that influential evangelicals have adopted views regarding the relation of faith, obedience, and justification (or, in other words, justification sola fide ) that are in conflict with the historic, ... -
The False Self and True Self: A Christian Perspective
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2016-01-12)The aim of this study, as explained in the first chapter, is to synthesize insights from Christianity and secular psychology in order to answer four questions: (1) Why do people reflect upon themselves? (2) Why do they ... -
Family Ministry and Evangelism: An Empirical Study of Family Ministry Engagement and Baptism Ratios in the Southern Baptist Convention
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2018-01-02)Proponents of a family ministry strategy believe that Christian parents are called to be the primary disciple-makers in their children’s lives and that the church is called to equip parents for that important task. This ... -
Family ministry perceptions and practices in Hmong Christian and Missionary Alliance Churches: a multiple case study
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2016-10-27)In this holistic, multiple-case, replication study, key informant interviews, focus group interviews, documents, and field notes were gathered, coded, and analyzed from three stratified, randomly selected Hmong C&MA churches ... -
Far and Near: Christian Worship of the Transcendent and Immanent God of Wonders
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2015-06-18)ABSTRACT FAR AND NEAR: CHRISTIAN WORSHIP OF THE TRANSCENDENT AND IMMANENT GOD OF WONDERS Charles Thomas Lewis, Jr., Ph.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2015 Chair: Dr. Bruce A. Ware "Far and Near: ... -
The Fear of the Lord in the New Testament : A Motivating Factor in Religious Behavior
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The feminist use of inclusive language for the Trinity: A case study in hermeneutical method
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2005-11-29)This thesis explores the relationship between feminists' use of inclusive language for the Trinity and their hermeneutical method in order to determine the viability of their method for theological construction. Chapter 1 ...