Open Access Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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Edmund Burke’s Moral Imagination: Interpretation and Cultivation
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2024-12)This dissertation argues that the faculty of imagination is crucial to Burke’s view of man, the sublime and beautiful, the arts, morality, society, and politics and that, therefore, the cultivation of a moral imagination ... -
The Catholicity of the Church: Pneumatological Exclusivism for the Universal Presence of Christ in the People of God
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2024-12)Over against pneumatological inclusivism arguing for the possibility of salvation of religious others in particular and the unevangelized in general, this dissertation champions pneumatological exclusivism for the constitution ... -
Explaining Ezekiel’s Enigmatic Muteness
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2024-12)This dissertation explains the nature and significance of the prophet Ezekiel’s muteness as mentioned in Ezekiel 3:22–27, 24:25–27, and 33:21–22. It addresses the paradox of Ezekiel prophesying in verbal address and apparent ... -
Confessionalism and Cooperation in the Baptist Movement, 1609–1925
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2024-12)Baptists came confessing and Baptists came cooperating. But historically, what is the relationship between the two? For more than four hundred years of the Baptist movement across two continents, confession and cooperation ... -
A Comparative Study of Yoga’s Most Foundational Scriptures and Relevant Biblical Passages
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2024-12)This dissertation is an analysis of yoga’s most foundational scriptures: the Patanjali Yoga Sūtras (PYS) and the Bhagavad Gītā (BG) in their original Sanskrit. My thesis is that these yogic scriptures contradict sound, ... -
Ezekiel 26 as a Case Study for Interpreting Problematic Prophecy
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2024-12)This dissertation argues that rather than describing Tyre’s literal destruction, Ezekiel employs formulaic language to stylize Tyre’s judgment after the pattern of YHWH’s judgment against Israel and those who opposed it. ... -
A Distinguished Blessing of Grace: Abraham Booth’s Doctrine of Sanctification in Confessional Context
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2024-12)This dissertation focuses on the life and thought of the eighteenth-century Particular Baptist pastor-theologian Abraham Booth (1734–1806) and offers the first dedicated study of Booth’s doctrine of sanctification and its ... -
“Very Tender and Earnest in Prayer”: Andrew Fuller, a Man of Prayer
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2024-12)This dissertation argues that Andrew Fuller (1754–1815) serves as a model for spirituality, and particularly in the practice of prayer. His life as a husband, father, pastor, missionary society leader, and theologian brings ... -
The Competent Church Planting Pastor in Southern Baptist Convention Churches: A Mixed Method Study
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2024-12)There is a strong and growing emphasis on church planting in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). Simultaneously, church membership, attendance, and baptism are on the decline. The increase in church planting and the ... -
Determining the Differences and Similarities Between Christian and Secular Universities in Preparing Students for Ethical Leadership in Corporate America: A Qualitative Content Analysis Study
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Ministries and Evangelism, 2024-12)This descriptive study explored the differences and similarities between Christian and secular universities’ approaches to educating and developing ethical business leaders for work in the marketplace. This study used a ... -
The Grief of a Child: Counseling the Dynamic Heart of an Elementary-Aged Child Grieving Death
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2024-12)This thesis examines how caregivers can best counsel an elementary-aged child grieving death that considers the nature of a child’s developing heart. Chapter two argues that effective communication to grieving children ... -
Diaspora Missiology: Understanding Biblical Hospitality as a Means to Develop Church Planting Strategies Among Unreached Peoples in the United States
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2024-12)This thesis develops an understanding of biblical hospitality as it evaluates diaspora missiology in order to help create an effective strategy to reach unreached peoples within the borders of the United States. Chapter 1 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Montessori Goes to Seminary: Establishing a Framework for Redemptive Formation in Theological Higher Education
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2024-12)This study addresses current trends in theological higher education by proposing a potentially viable mechanism for institutional reform, namely the Montessori method. Although Maria Montessori is widely known as an early ... -
“All Israel Shall Be Saved”: The Jews’ Conversion and Restoration in English Particular Baptist Thought, 1649–1815
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2024-12)This dissertation examines how the English Particular Baptists of the mid- seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries viewed the Jews, with a special emphasis on their future eschatological role. A central research ... -
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, ... -
FUELING A DEVOTION FOR THE GLORY OF GOD: THE RHYTHM OF CONTEMPLATIVE SOLITUDE IN THE LIFE OF JONATHAN EDWARDS
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2024-12)This thesis argues that a regular rhythm of contemplative solitude should be acknowledged as a primary influence on Jonathan Edwards's personal piety and devotion to the glory of God. To make this case, this thesis ... -
Equipping Members of Citizens Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, to Develop and Practice a Rule of Life
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2024-12)This project seeks to equip members of Citizens Church Charlotte to develop a rule of life consisting of five spiritual practices for their spiritual formation. Chapter 1 presents the ministry context of Citizens Church ... -
Plurality of Elder Leadership Versus One-Man Authority in a New Testament Church
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2024-12)The thesis of this paper is that churches should be led, taught, and governed by a plurality of elders, leading the church as a group without a defined single-man authority over them. Chapter 1 contains the thesis statement, ...