Browsing Open Access Dissertations and Theses by Title
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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 ... -
The figurative use of "son(s) of" in the New Testament
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2016-10-27)Daniel Ferris Born, Ph.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2016 Chair: Dr. William F. Cook The figurative use of "son(s) of" phrases in the NT represents the author employing the father-son relationship, and ... -
Filius Gratiae: The Venerable Bede's Theology of Grace
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2020-11-25)This dissertation argues that the Venerable Bede held to and promoted an Augustinian theology of grace: humanity is hopelessly corrupted by the fall, and only through God’s gracious election and the bestowal of good gifts ... -
"Filled with the Gifts of God": The Holy Spirit as Agent of Virtue Formation in the Participatory Pneumatology of Didymus the Blind
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2018-01-02)This thesis analyzes the pneumatology of Didymus the Blind as expressed in three of his writings: the Commentary on Genesis, the Commentary on Zechariah, and On the Holy Spirit. It attends specifically to the ... -
Finding Christ in the Old Testament Through the Aramaic Memra, Shekinah, and Yeqara of the Targums
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2015-06-18)This dissertation seeks to find Christ in the Old Testament by examining the targumic passages in which Memra, Shekinah, or Yeqara occur as God's agent or manifestation. Chapter 1 demonstrates that scholars view the Memra, ... -
The First Translation of the Bible Among Indigenous Islamic Peoples Using a Mediating Approach
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2023-05-01)Bible translators among indigenous, Islamic people groups face difficult decisions when translating key biblical terms. Translators may use a word-for-word approach which can leave the reader with little meaning or the ... -
Foreign Language Acquisition among Children with Down Syndrome: A Precedent Study for Christian Schools
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2022-11-28)Children with Down syndrome are largely excluded from the foreign language classroom, and no research exists documenting their abilities to learn a foreign language. Research is needed to demonstrate the abilities of ...