Browsing Open Access Dissertations and Theses by Subject "Holy Spirit"
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"The Blessed Spirit": An Analysis of the Pneumatology of Benjamin Beddome as an Early Evangelical
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2017-05-31)ABSTRACT “THE BLESSED SPIRIT”: AN ANALYSIS OF THE PNEUMATOLOGY OF BENJAMIN BEDDOME AS AN EARLY EVANGELICAL Daniel Scott Ramsey, Ph.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2017 Chair: Dr. Michael A. G. ... -
By the Same Spirit: Edwardsean Pneumatology in the Younger Edwards
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2020-11-20)Jonathan Edwards Jr. (1745–1801) is often portrayed as a spiritless preacher who drove away his congregation with metaphysical abstractions. Accordingly, this received caricature describes Edwards Jr. as distorting the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
"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 ... -
“The Grand Encouragement”: Andrew Fuller’s Pneumatology as a Reception of and Advancement on Orthodox, Puritan, and Evangelical Perspectives on the Holy Spirit
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2018-05-09)This dissertation argues that Andrew Fuller’s doctrine of the Holy Spirit combined traditional Puritan teaching on the sovereign work of the Spirit in the conversion of sinners with an evangelical emphasis on mission. ... -
The Holy Spirit and the Practice of Evangelism Among Nigerian Neo-Pentecostals
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2020-11-30)Jesus Christ, in part of his send-forth message to his disciples just before his ascension, emphatically stressed, “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses . . .” (Acts ... -
The Holy Spirit's Hope for the Traumatized
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2021-12-20)This thesis argues that the Holy Spirit fuels hope for the traumatized through regenerating, regenerating, sealing, indwelling, sanctifying, resurrecting, and glorifying believers, and producing shalom. I argue that the ... -
The (in)significance of the filioque in contemporary inclusive soteriologies
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2009)This dissertation examines the impact of the filioque on the relationship between the Spirit and the Son, particularly as it pertains to the economy of salvation and the availability of salvation to the unevangelized. More ... -
Luke-Acts and Exemplar Prophets: Luke's Use of the Elijah-Elisha Narrative and the Role of the Spirit
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2020-11-16)This thesis examines Luke’s use of exemplars with a focus on his utilization of the Elijah-Elisha Narrative (EEN) in his Elijah-Elisha Cycles. My first chapter introduces the topic of the thesis and sets the scope of my ... -
The Promise of the Father, the Spirit of the Son: A Framework for a Trinitarian Christological Pneumatology
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-11-28)In this dissertation, I argue that a biblically faithful, theologically robust, and historically grounded pneumatology should be founded upon a classical trinitarian framework as well as maintain a distinct Christological ... -
The promised helper: a commentary on the pneumatology of Novatian's De Trinitate
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2016-10-27)This thesis is a detailed commentary on Novatian’s chapter 29, where he discusses the Holy Spirit in his work on the Trinity. Chapter 1 of this thesis briefly introduces the reader to the early fathers’ understanding on ... -
Promissam Vim Spiritus Sancti: The Holy Spirit's Activity in Early Carthaginian Pneumatology
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2021-04-26)In 2008, Lewis Ayres and Michel Barnes published several articles in the journal Augustinian Studies proposing a theory of early Christian pneumatology in three stages. They argue that each successive stage marked a downturn ... -
The Role of the Holy Spirit in Leading Ecclesial Change in Luke-Acts
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2016-01-12)This study examined the biblical/theological foundations found in the Holy Spirit for leading ecclesial change within the text of Luke-Acts. Chapter 1 describes the purpose, goals, rationale, and research methodology for ... -
The Role of the Holy Spirit in Recent Apologetic Thought
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2014-05-16)This dissertation examines the influence and role of the Holy Spirit in the task of apologetics. The first chapter recognizes the historical dearth of apologetic engagement dealing with the Spirit, and it lays out the ... -
The Role of the Holy Spirit in the Interpretation of the Word of God
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2012-12-14)THE ROLE OF THE SPIRIT IN THE INTERPRETATION OF THE WORD OF GOD This dissertation examines the role of the Spirit in the interpretation of the Word of God. Chapter 1 introduces the topic and its significance. The topic ... -
Sanctified by the Spirit: Applying John Owen's Concept of Spirit-Infused Habitual Grace to Divergent Models of Sanctification within the Biblical Counseling Movement
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-04-25)In this dissertation I argue that John Owen’s (1616–1883) conception of Spirit–infused habitual grace appropriately corrects and develops two divergent frameworks for understanding sanctification within the biblical ... -
Severing the Spirit from the Son: Theological revisionism in contemporary theologies of salvation
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2006-04-27)This dissertation evaluates the historiography, methodology, exegesis, and theological conclusions of pneumatological inclusivists and their doctrine of salvation, and then offers a biblical and theological defense of ... -
The Spirit of Sonship in the Johannine Corpus
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2018-01-02)The high Christology and unique pneumatology of John’s gospel has often eclipsed the apostle’s teaching on the relationship of the believer to Christ and the Father through the Spirit in Johannine studies. This dissertation ... -
The Spirit-Led Preaching of Charles H. Spurgeon
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2020-05)This dissertation centers on the role the Holy Spirit played in the pulpit ministry of Charles Haddon Spurgeon. It argues that Spurgeon was a Spirit-led preacher by examining six criteria of the Holy Spirit’s ministry for ...