Browsing Open Access Dissertations and Theses by Subject "Reformed Church--Doctrines"

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    • Charles Hodge: Evangelical Mystic 

      Curles, Patrick (Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-12-02)
      Princeton theologian Charles Hodge is the emblematic American Presbyterian. Hodge’s spirituality, however, is not only misunderstood, it is largely ignored as the best example of Presbyterian piety and spirituality. Some ...

    • Crowned with Immortal Glory: Eschatalogical Hope in the Spirituality of William Perkins 

      Hartline, Matthew Hutton (Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-11-17)
      The doctrine of glorification is a biblical teaching that has been neglected within the Protestant church and, therefore, underdeveloped in our day. For whatever reason that may be, glorification is a doctrine that will ...

    • Reforming Virtue: Bavinck's Method of Engaging with Virtue Ethics from a Reformed Perspective 

      Moon, David (Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-11-30)
      There is a distinct reluctance in the Reformed tradition to engage with natural theology and scholarship in the study of, among other things, virtue ethics. This thesis attempts to demonstrate that Herman Bavinck’s four ...

    • Sanctification as Gospel-Based Holiness 

      Rickmond, Heath S. (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2013-05-30)
      ABSTRACT SANCTIFICATION AS GOSPEL-BASED HOLINESS Heath Shannon Rickmond, Ph.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2013 Chair: Dr. Chad O. Brand This dissertation examines the progressive nature of ...

    • A Theological Evaluation of Edwards’s Freedom of the Will: A Case for Continuity with the Reformed Tradition 

      Sparks, Andrew (Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-04-29)
      Recent scholarship claims that the Reformed tradition was neither libertarian nor compatibilist with regard to free will and, as a consequence, Jonathan Edwards’s work, Freedom of the Will, represents a departure from the ...

    • The Thomistic Ground of Analogy and Reformed Ectypal Theology 

      Peck, Amos (Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2021-04-21)
      Reformed ectypal theology can refine Thomistic analogy by supplementing Aquinas’ creational account of analogy’s ground with a covenantal account. Aquinas presents the ultimate ground of analogy as inexplicable but ...

    • Word and Spirit in Francis Turretin and Jean Claude 

      Marquis, Alexandre (Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2021-12-01)
      This dissertation examines the doctrine of the Word and the Spirit in the theology of two important Reformed pastors and theologians of the seventeenth century Francis Turretin (1623–1687) and Jean Claude (1619–1687), who ...