Open Access Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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Theophilus and the Centurions: Roman Officials as the “Most Excellent” Proponents of the Gospel in Luke-Acts
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-11-27)This thesis explores the intersection and implications of two key findings in Luke-Acts. The first is that Luke wrote his two-volume work to Theophilus, a high-ranking Roman official who was sympathetic towards Christianity. ... -
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 ... -
Law and Love in Second Temple Judaism and in Galatians 5:14
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-11-20)This dissertation argues that Paul interprets the love command of Leviticus 19:18 in Galatians 5:14 primarily in the light of Jesus Christ. This does not mean that Paul considers Christ only when he states the relationship ... -
Ichak Adizes's Organizational Theory Applied to the Classical Christian Education Movement: A Multiple Case Study
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2022-11-25)Using a multiple case study methodology, this research investigates the leadership contributions to school growth using the organizational theory of Ichak Adizes. By utilizing representative schools for each stage of school ... -
Separation of the People, Separation of the Land: The Parallel Literary Structures of Ezra 9–10 and Nehemiah 1–3
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-09-09)This dissertation argues that the parallel narrative structures of Ezra 9–10 and Nehemiah 1:1–3:32 are intended to connect the two books and highlights the overlapping theological connection of building the community through ... -
Crowned with Immortal Glory: Eschatalogical Hope in the Spirituality of William Perkins
(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 ... -
"May I Again Taste the Sweets of Social Religion": The Ecclesiological Devotion of William Carey
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-11-15)William Carey has served as an example for over two hundred years of how to effectively fulfill the Great Commission. One of the primary sources of Carey’s success as a missionary was his devotion to the local church. ... -
The Humiliation-Exaltation Motif in I Peter
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Christian Curricular Emphases and Academic Rigor in Fine Arts: A Mixed Methods Study
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2022-04-26)This study explored the relationship between Christian curricular emphases and academic rigor in Christian secondary school’s fine arts programs and course offerings. It used convergent data transformation methods to analyze ... -
The Fear of the Lord in the New Testament : A Motivating Factor in Religious Behavior
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1958) -
A Historical Study of Alien Baptism among Baptists since 1640
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1952) -
Edgar Young Mullins : A Baptist Exponent of Theological Restatement
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1963) -
The Tyndale House Greek New Testament and Nestle-Aland Tradition as Complementary, Not Competitive Critical Editions
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-05-04)This dissertation is a detailed comparison of the texts and textual apparatuses of the Tyndale House Greek New Testament (THGNT) and Nestle-Aland tradition (especially the NA27 and NA28). Its thesis is that these two ... -
An Historical Study of the Tithe in the Christian Church to 1648
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1948) -
Divine and Human Agency by Means of the Covenant: The Anti-Pelagian Theology of John Owen
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-04-30)Chapter 1 presented the thesis and purpose of this research. Throughout his life, John Owen vindicated an anti-Pelagian soteriology through divine and human agencies in the covenant. Owen was anti-Pelagian despite his ... -
The Significance of the Account of the Nazareth Episode in the Gospel of Luke
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1957) -
James Madison Pendleton : A Critical Biography
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1962) -
The Christological Case for Compatibilism
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2021-12-03)Classical Christology entails compatibilism. In other words, that freedom and moral responsibility are compatible with determinism is a necessary consequence of the teaching about Jesus Christ found in Scripture and affirmed ... -
Consilia: Catholic Inroads at the Puritan Anti-Catholic Westminster Assembly
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2021-04-15)While historians disagree about many different aspects of the Westminster Assembly (1643–1653), the current historiography is united in seeing the gathering and its members as staunchly anti-Catholic. However, a largely ...