Browsing Open Access Dissertations and Theses by Subject "Jesus Christ--Person and offices"
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Chalcedonian Anthropology: A Proposal for the Extension of Christ’s Person-Nature Constitution
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2020-12-01)This dissertation argues for the extension of Christ’s ontological constitution as the man to define the constitution of all mankind. In contrast to the predominant body-soul/mind models, this dissertation presents a ... -
Christ is God Over All: Romans 9:5 in the Context of Romans 9-11
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2012-05-23)This dissertation examines Paul's statement in Romans 9:5 within the context of Romans 9-11. The thesis of the dissertation is that in the Christological passages in Romans 9-11, Paul spoke of Jesus in a manner that suggests ... -
The Eternal Spirit as the Superior Hyssop in Hebrews 9:14
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2021-05-03)What precisely does the author of Hebrews refer to when he states that [Χριστὸς]... διὰ πνεύματος αἰωνίου ἑαυτὸν προσήνεγκεν ἄμωμον τῷ θεῷ? It is the contention of this paper that the New Testament hapax διὰ πνεύματος ... -
An evangelical analysis and critique of feminist Christology
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2008-12-12)This dissertation analyzes the person and work of Christ in feminist theology, with particular attention to feminist critiques of traditional Christology. Chapter 1 is a brief introduction of the dissertation's thesis and ... -
"The Fountain of Life": John Gill’s Doctrine of Christ's Eternal Sonship
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2021-12-02)John Gill believed that without the doctrine of eternal generation the doctrine of the Trinity could not be upheld. For Gill, this doctrine provided the foundation for the distinctions between the persons within the Godhead ... -
Glory and Glorification in the Gospel of John: The Granting of Δόξα to Believers in John 17:22
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-04-29)The glory given by Jesus to the disciples in John 17:22 has received little attention in Johannine scholarship. Often interpreters gloss over glory in 17:22 and direct their attention to Jesus’s prayer for unity. Others ... -
Jesus as God's Delight in the Gospel of Matthew: An Overlooked Aspect of Matthew's Christology
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2024-05)Throughout the Old Testament, there are many things that God delights in: righteousness, mercy/steadfast love, Israel, Israel’s properly offered sacrifices, and Israel’s king, to name a few. This repeated theme in the Old ... -
The New Authority of the Resurrected Jesus in the Gospels
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-04-29)Following the evangelists’ emphases in characterizing Jesus, a study of all four resurrection accounts reveals two major themes, namely, that Jesus is (1) the same person as before and (2) one with great and expanded ... -
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 ... -
"That Which Is Not Assumed Is Not Healed": A Dogmatic Response to Recent Formulations of the Son's Assumption of a Fallen Human Nature
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2019-03-26)This dissertation contends that those who argue for the Son’s assumption of a fallen human nature are mistaken, because they work with a faulty notion of the nature of the hypostatic union, or revert Trinitarian order, or ...