Browsing Open Access Dissertations and Theses by Subject "Religious history"

Now showing items 1-6 of 6

    • Application for the Sake of Transformation: A Study of Thomas Manton’s Categorical Approach to Sermon Application 

      Funchess, James Davis (Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2023-12)
      In this dissertation, I argue that Thomas Manton’s categorical approach to sermon application, being thoroughly influenced by William Perkins and the Westminster Directory for Public Worship, maintained a teleological aim ...

    • Covenant and Identity Formation in the Second Century 

      Hedges, Zachary Thomas (Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2023-12)
      This study examines the use of the covenant concept in second-century texts that address three primary social and rhetorical contexts for early Christian identity formation: Judaism, Greco-Roman culture, and heterodoxy. ...

    • Four Practices Correlated to a Sense of Belonging in a Church 

      Stockum, Daniel Edward (Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2023-12)
      This dissertation examines the communal practices of mutual support, vulnerability, forgiveness, and accountability as well as their correlation with the sense of belonging that members feel in regard to a church community. ...

    • The Integration of Spirituality and Evangelism in the Ministry of Reuben Archer Torrey 

      Sanders, Russell David (Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2023-12)
      Reuben A. Torrey (1856–1928) was a missions-minded pastor and evangelist whose legacy includes a robust spirituality coupled with the practice of evangelism. In this research, I address the integration of spirituality and ...

    • Jefferson's Baptists: Evangelical Partisanship in the Early American Republic, 1800-1830 

      McCall, Casey Garrett (Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2023-12)
      After the Revolution, opportunistic settlers from Virginia began streaming over the Allegheny Mountains to settle frontier lands to the south and west. Numbered among them, Baptists came in droves, spreading not only the ...

    • "Their Peculiar Redeemer": Robert Sandeman and the Doctrine of the Atonement 

      Ackerman, Daniel Isaac (Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2023-12)
      Robert Sandeman (1718–1771) was a Scottish minister who begat the Sandemanian movement that carried into the early nineteenth century. Though Sandeman is widely known for his controversial view on the nature of saving ...