Browsing Open Access Dissertations and Theses by Subject "Theology"
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Augustus Hopkins Strong and Ethical Monism as a Means of Reconciling Christian Theology and Modern Thought
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2012-12-14)This dissertation examines the role of ethical monism in the theology of Augustus Hopkins Strong. Chapter 1 discusses some of the reasons for examining Strong's theology and some of the difficulties entailed in such a ... -
Buying Local: An Inquiry Into the Ethical Dimensions of Place in Consumer Decisions
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2024-12)This thesis assesses the Buy Local Movement from a Christian perspective and argues that supporting a global market through personal buying choices has a greater potential to promote human flourishing for image bearers ... -
Church and Empire in the Theology of Hippolytus of Rome
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2025)In this study, I explore Hippolytus of Rome’s views on church and empire within the context of his theology. My central thesis is that Hippolytus’s apocalyptic vision of Christ as the image of God profoundly shaped his ... -
The Church as Instrumental to the Restoration of Personal Identity
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Church Ministries, 2025)This dissertation describes how relational shalom—the proper interrelatedness of all creation under the triune God, fully present in the created order—was corrupted at the fall by sin, resulting in each image bearer orienting ... -
Equipping Parents at First Baptist Church in Soddy Daisy, Tennessee, for Family Discipleship
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2024-12)This project aims to equip parents to disciple their children. Chapter 1 presents the context, rationale, and methodology for the project. Chapter 2 shows the biblical basis for the project, exploring Deuteronomy 6:4–9, ... -
An Exemplary and Reproducible Sermon Preparation Method Utilizing Logos Bible Software
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2025)From individuals to institutions, many are embracing the use of Bible software technology for studying, interpreting, and preaching the Bible, but not fully understanding the impact and implications for the exegetical ... -
From Him and Through Him and to Him: A Dogmatic Account of Participation in God
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2025)In this dissertation, I offer a constructive account of participation in God, drawing specifically from Thomas Aquinas and the Reformed orthodox. Such a conception of participation, I argue, is ontologically grounded grammar ... -
From Sodom to Gehenna: The Old Testament Typology of Sodom and Gomorrah as God’s Eschatological Judgment
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2025)This thesis attempts to enter the larger scholarly conversation about biblical typology and OT typology specifically. Significant studies have been done on the NT author’s use of typology in explaining the OT and its ... -
“From the Beginning”: Christology and Ethics in 1 John
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2025)This project examines the passages where John uses ἀρχή exclusively with ἀπό (and hence ἀπ᾽ ἀρχῆς, “from the beginning,” FTB) in 1 John in light of understanding its Christology and ethics. I argue that John uses the phrase ... -
Fulfilling the Image of God: A Biblical Framework for a Christocentric Natural Law Theory and Human Flourishing
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2025)What is a proper biblical description of the relationship between the natural law and humanity’s status as image bearers of God? In this dissertation, I contend that the imago Dei and the natural law hold a complementary ... -
God and Nature: Retrieving Herman Bavinck's Approach to Natural Theology
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2025)This dissertation offers a constructive and Christian theological account of the project of natural theology, especially by putting Herman Bavinck in dialogue with contemporary alternatives today. In its methodology, the ... -
Ministry, Mission, and Mercy: A Practical Philosophy for Groups to Live Out God’s Holistic Vision for the Church
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Ministries, 2024-12)This thesis argues for the importance of employing a practical philosophy of ministry, mission, and mercy in the local church, specifically in the context of small groups. The first chapter introduces the idea of the ... -
Natural Law and Virtue Ethics in Justin Martyr
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2025)This study contends that due to the natural law’s universal knowability, Justin used it to construct an apologetic within an eudaimonistic account of Christian virtue that served his political, theological, and evangelistic ... -
The Priesthood of All Believers in the Work of John Livingston Nevius
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2025)The landscape of missions has shifted dramatically in recent years. Due to greater restrictions on access to unreached countries and peoples, the majority of missionaries have had to change both their location and ministry ... -
"Put on the Lord Jesus Christ": A Study of Clothing Metaphors in Paul's Ethics
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2025)This dissertation explores the meaning and cognitive function of Paul’s clothing metaphors in his ethical teachings, employing select concepts from modern metaphor theory. I argue that Paul’s clothing metaphors in three ... -
Retrieving Eternal Procession: A Dogmatic Western Account of the Holy Spirit’s Relation to the Father and the Son in the Triune God’s Divine Life
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2025)In this dissertation, I argue for the necessity of orthodox Christianity (1) to clarify the meaning of the doctrine of the Holy Spirit’s eternal procession from the Father and the Son, and subsequently, because of contemporary ... -
Whatever Is Done in Secret: A Christian Moral Analysis of a Right to Privacy for a Digital Age
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2025)In this project, the right to privacy is argued to be an inherent aspect of being human, flowing from humanity’s being created in the imago Dei and the corresponding nature of human rights and duties. Chapter 1 situates ...