Open Access Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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Then They Understood: A Narrative-Critical Analysis of Matthew 16:12 and 17:13
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-04-13)This thesis is a narrative-critical analysis of the formula τότε συνῆκαν (οἱ μαθηταὶ) ὅτι as it appears in Matthew 16:12 and 17:13. This formula is rarely discussed in scholarly works, and yet it occurs at a pivotal part ... -
Glory and Glorification in the Gospel of John: The Granting of Δόξα to Believers in John 17:22
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-04-29)The glory given by Jesus to the disciples in John 17:22 has received little attention in Johannine scholarship. Often interpreters gloss over glory in 17:22 and direct their attention to Jesus’s prayer for unity. Others ... -
Information Structure and Constituent Order in EIMI + Participle (Periphrasis) Constructions: A Test Case in the Pseudepigrapha and Apostolic Fathers
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-04-28)In this study, I carry out a conceptual replication study of Stephen Levinsohn’s recent approach to copula + participle constructions (“periphrasis”) on a corpus of texts from the Apostolic Fathers and Pseudepigrapha. ... -
A Comprehensive Ordinance: A Biblical, Theological, and Formational Case for Threefold Communion
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-04-15)The night before Jesus died, the Lord presided over three important aspects in the upper room with his disciples. The Gospel accounts tell that Jesus ate a meal with the disciples, washed their feet, and shared the bread ... -
Revelational Foundationalism: A Constructive Synthesis of the Epistemologies of Cornelius Van Til and Alvin Plantinga
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-04-25)Cornelius Van Til and Alvin Plantinga are titans in the arena of Christian philosophy. They both come from Dutch Reformed Calvinist traditions and studied under William Jellema at Calvin College. Yet, their approaches to ... -
"Remember the Predictions of the Holy Prophets": 2 Peter's Prophetic Use of the Old Testament
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-04-07)This dissertation argues that the author of 2 Peter reads the OT as a prophetically forward-pointing narrative which colors the present time. It does so both by direct promise-fulfillment and by constituting the narrative ... -
“Seeing the Invisible God”: John Ryland Jr.'s Spirituality of Triumphal Living in Christ
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-04-20)This dissertation argues that John Ryland, Jr.’s doctrines of the Trinity and the incarnation, as they relate to the deity of Christ and his presence among believers, have a direct bearing on his spiritual formation. Chapter ... -
Contest of Civility: Conformity, Dissent, and the Struggle for Religious Liberty
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-05-03)By the early 1660s, two bordering jurisdictions in colonial America enacted fundamentally divergent political communities. Massachusetts perpetuated civility of conformity, a political formulation that fastened society ... -
The Holy Spirit's Hope for the Traumatized
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2021-12-20)This thesis argues that the Holy Spirit fuels hope for the traumatized through regenerating, regenerating, sealing, indwelling, sanctifying, resurrecting, and glorifying believers, and producing shalom. I argue that the ... -
The Refutation of Bird Evolution by a Study of Feathered Dromaeosaurs as a Created Kind
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2022-03-01)Secular science seeks to use a group of feathered dinosaurs known as dromaeosaurs as proof of the evolution of birds. Species evolution is not true and feathered dromaeosaurs are misclassified as dinosaurs when they are ... -
Echoes of War: Religious Militancy in Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2022-02-26)People, pundits, the press, pulpiteers, and politicians opine that religion has been the major cause of war since the beginning of history. Many claim that religions are the same in their militancy; that one religion is ... -
The Text of Habakkuk Examined in the Light of Modern Research and Discovery
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"The Fountain of Life": John Gill’s Doctrine of Christ's Eternal Sonship
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2021-12-02)John Gill believed that without the doctrine of eternal generation the doctrine of the Trinity could not be upheld. For Gill, this doctrine provided the foundation for the distinctions between the persons within the Godhead ... -
Word and Spirit in Francis Turretin and Jean Claude
(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 ... -
Persons According to Essence
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2021-11-27)In the classical Christian tradition, personhood is a concept employed to distinguish the members in the Trinity while simultaneously affirming their oneness of being. Yet, this is a term applied to both human beings and ... -
Reconsidering the Aspect of Fear/Power in Evangelism and Missions
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2021-11-29)The cultural aspects of guilt/innocence, shame/honor, and fear/power have received much attention since the twentieth century. While theologians in Western contexts have considered the guilt/innocence aspect and missiologists ... -
The Formative Wisdom of the "Bread of Life" Discourse
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2021-12-02)The Bible is a wisdom text. This provocative thesis statement defines the purpose of Jeffrey de Waal Dryden’s book, "A Hermeneutic of Wisdom" and drives its content forward in terms of telos, ethical trajectory, and moral ... -
The Mind of Christ: The Intellectual Virtue of φρόνησις in Paul's Letters
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2021-12-01)In Paul's letters, there is an epistemic difference between those who are in Christ and those who are not, characterized by the uniquely Christian practice of the intellectual virtue of φρόνησις, or practical wisdom. Over ... -
The Laying On of Hands As a Paradigm for Ecclesiastical Ordination: A Biblical, Historical, and Theological Study
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2021-12-04)The tradition of the laying on of hands (LOH) can be ambiguous in both essence and practice. Further, the contemporary evangelical church and the academy lack a robust understanding its significance in both orthodoxy and ... -
Benjamin Wallin: A Respectable Minister's Proclamation of the Gospel in Eighteenth-Century London
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2021-12-06)This dissertation introduces the work of the eighteenth-century Particular Baptist London minister Benjamin Wallin. After providing an overview of Wallin's life and ministry, the dissertation turns to an examination of his ...