Open Access Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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Addressing the Weight of Caring for Souls and the Troubled Heart of the Pastor Through Biblical Counseling
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2024-05)This thesis addresses how a pastor who is under a holy calling from God to guard his flock as well as his life and doctrine will sometimes find himself weary and isolated in the process. In times like these, he must gauge ... -
A Biblical Analysis of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy and Its Use in Biblical Counseling
(The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2024-05)This thesis argues that Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is incompatible with Scripture and the precepts of biblical counseling.” The first chapter is an introduction to the topic of EMDR therapy ... -
Male and Female He Created Them: The Implications of a Paradigmatic Reading of Genesis 1–3 for the Complementarian-Egalitarian Debate
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2024-05)This DMin thesis argues that Genesis 1–3 contains, in seed form, the essence of maleness and femaleness as seen in patterned relationships that are upheld, expounded, and applied by biblical authors across the canon. Chapter ... -
Death Will Die: Finding Eternal Life from a Johannine Ars Moriendi
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2024-05)This thesis argues that Christians should develop an Ars Moriendi from the Johannine literature, which recenters death and dying with an eternal perspective, drawing on the beliefs and practices of the Christian tradition ... -
The Evolution of Homiletic Instruction at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary From John Broadus to Charles Gardner
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2024-05)This thesis describes the evolution of homiletic instruction at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary across the tenures of its first three preaching professors, John Broadus, Edwin Dargan, and Charles Gardner, and ... -
How Penal Substitution Addresses Our Shame: The Bible’s Shame Dynamics and Their Relationships to Evangelical Doctrine
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2024-05)Growing awareness of shame’s presence and problems in the West has drawn increasing levels of attention to the topic in Western scholarship. In the face of this attention on shame, theologians, missiologists, and counsellors ... -
“A Golden Mine Opened”: The Role of Christ-Centered Preaching in the Sermons of Benjamin Keach
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2024-05)This dissertation argues for the centrality of Christ-centered preaching in the sermons of Benjamin Keach through his Tropologia and Sin-Salvation methods. Chapter 1 introduces the thesis and Keach’s method. His Tropologia ... -
The Pastor as a Biblical Counselor and Equipper of Biblical Counselors within the Local Church
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Church Ministries, 2024-05)This dissertation examines the theological foundations of the Biblical Counseling Movement (BCM), focusing on the claim that “pastors should biblically counsel their congregants and equip them to do likewise.” Through a ... -
Missionary Sending and the Moravian Brethren
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2024-05)There is an increasing number of larger churches today taking back their New Testament responsibility of missionary sending from the agencies to which many had outsourced this task in the previous century. While this task ... -
The imago Dei, Transhumanism, and the Future Glory of Humanity: A Critical Interaction With Ray Kurzweil's Technological Singularity
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2024-05)In this dissertation, I argue that Ray Kurzweil’s transhumanist vision toward a merger between human biology and technology, generated out of a technological “Singularity,” will have revolutionary implications for humanity. ... -
A Critique of the Early Islamic Charge That Paul Corrupted Christ’s Original Religion
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2024-05)This dissertation is a critique of the early Islamic charge that Paul corrupted Christ’s original religion with doctrines and practices that Jesus did not promote. Muslim writers in the first six centuries of Islam claimed ... -
The Virtues of Discipleship: Faith and Mercy as Righteousness in Matthew's Gospel
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2024-05)In this dissertation I argue that Matthew portrays the fundamental mark of thedisciple of Jesus as righteousness, which serves as his overall category of virtue and is comprised of two primary virtues—faith and mercy. ... -
Biblical Meditation and the Visual Arts: A Method of Biblical Meditation for a Post- Christian, Visually-Saturated Age
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2024-05)In this post-Christian, visually-saturated age, Scripture-guided meditation on the visual arts can serve as a helpful method of biblical meditation. This dissertation argues that a method of biblical meditation—as outlined ... -
Developing an Awareness of the Demonic in Biblical Counseling, in Conversation With William Perkins
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2024-05)William Perkins, the father of Puritanism and the great popularizer of Reformed and Puritan theology from the sixteenth century onward, articulated a robust situational demonology further developed by Puritan writers ... -
Foreign Language Acquisition Among Children With Down Syndrome: A Precedent Study for Christian Schools
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2024-05)Children with Down syndrome (DS) are largely excluded from the foreign language (FL) classroom, and no research exists documenting their abilities to learn a FL. Research is needed to demonstrate the abilities of children ... -
The Pastoral Theology of the Apostolic Fathers
(School of Theology, 2024-05)This dissertation argues that early Christianity possessed a stable and unified theology of pastoral identity and work. Historic studies of early Christian leadership sought to justify present ecclesiological structures ... -
The Contribution of Ambrose Jessup Tomlinson to Classical Pentecostalism
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2024-05)The historiography of Pentecostalism customarily identifies Charles Parham and William Seymour as first-generation founders. Parham and Seymour are unquestionably central to the debut of Pentecostalism in North America in ... -
Rediscovering and Applying God's Holiness in Isaiah 6 and Revelation 4 Through the Lens of Abraham Kuruvilla's Hermeneutical and Homiletical Approach
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2024-05)This dissertation investigates the rich theological concept of God’s holiness in Isaiah 6 and Revelation 4, utilizing Abraham Kuruvilla’s hermeneutical and homiletical method for preaching. This study focuses on elucidating ... -
He Makes Her Desert Like the Garden of YHWH: A Typological Understanding of the Birth of Isaac as Resurrection from Death
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2024-05)This dissertation argues that the birth of Isaac from Sarah’s barren womb typifies resurrection from death. This typology is author-intended, prospective, and culminates in salvation history in the resurrection of Jesus ... -
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 ...