Open Access Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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Church Revitalization and Evangelistic Emphasis: A Mixed Methods Study
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2019-04-30)The numbers are alarming. Seventy-four percent of churches within the SBC are in a state of decline or plateau. The church at large has a responsibility to reverse these trends and refuse to watch the evangelical church ... -
An Analysis of Women’s Perception of Biblical Community Within the Environment of Facebook: A Mixed Method Study
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Church Ministries, 2018-03-20)This purpose of this study was to explore the biblical community behaviors of women when engaging with Facebook as well as perceived best practices for connecting women in the church. An explanatory sequential mixed methods ... -
Michael Tippett's Philosophy of Musical and Eschatological Time and Its Implications for Christian Theology
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2017-12-04)The tension between prevalent conflicting notions of theological time and God’s temporality calls for a new, unified approach to time rooted in biblical theology. This project proposes that a study of Tippett’s musical ... -
The Development of Biblical Forgiveness in Redemptive History
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2018-02-10)The purpose of this dissertation is to propose such a comprehensive model of biblical forgiveness by interpreting biblical passages on forgiveness, integrating the various valid interpretations, and diachronically inspecting ... -
Paul’s Culturally Contextualized Apologetic
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2020-05)In this dissertation, I argue that Paul carried out culturally contextualized apologetics, presenting a model for culturally effective apologetics. I argue that Paul’s cultural contextualization in his apologetics takes ... -
Christianity at the Crossroads: William Louis Poteat and Liberal Religion in the Baptist South
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2020-05)William Louis Poteat played a leading role in spreading liberalism among Baptists in North Carolina and the South. He promoted a liberal vision for Christianity in an attempt to appeal to the cultured elites of the New ... -
Honor and Shame in Ecuador
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2020-05)Chapter 1 introduces the question of using honor and shame by showing how honor and shame have helped to shape missiology. The problem of the role and use of honor and shame Ecuadorian culture frames the remainder ... -
The Impact of Servant Leadership and Christ-Centered Followership on the Problem of Police Brutality Against Minorities
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2020-12)This thesis proposes that a law enforcement leadership model predicated on Christ-centered followership with a biblical metaphorical shepherding framework enhanced by servant leadership can shape individual officers and ... -
An Embryonic Ecclesiology Enabling Church Planting Movements to Flourish
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2019-12)This dissertation proposes an ecclesiological rubric for evaluating church planting strategies and methods. The result of these evaluations will be establishing churches that flourish where they are planted. A flourishing ... -
The Singing Lion of London: Hymnody as a Pedagogical And Doxological Tool in The Pastoral Ministry of Charles Spurgeon
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Church Ministries, 2020-05)Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) placed a high priority on hymnody as a pedagogical and doxological tool within the life and public worship of the local church. As pastor of London’s Metropolitan Tabernacle, he quoted hymns ... -
Reaching the Secular City: A Practical Model for Brazilian Urban Missionaries Through the Lens of Lesslie Newbigin
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2020-05)ABSTRACT REACHING THE SECULAR CITY: A PRACTICAL MODEL FOR BRAZILIAN URBAN MISSIONARIES THROUGH THE LENS OF LESSLIE NEWBIGIN Wendal Mark Johnson, PhD The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2020 Chair: ... -
An Argument for Close Communion in Baptist Life
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2020-05)This dissertation argues that believer’s baptism by immersion should precede communion as prerequisite to it, due to the explicit example of the New Testament, the assumed pattern that all believers are baptized, and a ... -
The Spirit-Led Preaching of Charles H. Spurgeon
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2020-05)This dissertation centers on the role the Holy Spirit played in the pulpit ministry of Charles Haddon Spurgeon. It argues that Spurgeon was a Spirit-led preacher by examining six criteria of the Holy Spirit’s ministry for ... -
The Influence of Harold Best's Music through the Eyes of Faith and Unceasing Worship on Select Worship Authors and Educators
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2020-05)This dissertation examines the impact of Harold Best’s Music through the Eyes of Faith (1993) and Unceasing Worship: Biblical Perspectives on Worship and the Arts (2003) on seven representative worship authors and educators. ... -
The Doctrine of Indulgences to the Reformation
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The Triennial Convention, 1814-1845 : A Study in Baptist Co-operation and Conflict
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A Historical, Biblical, and Theological Interpretation of Covenants: Unconditionality and Conditionality in Relation to Justification and Sanctification
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2019-12-12)This dissertation involves four interrelated subjects: justification, sanctification, union with Christ, and covenant theology. It is comprised of four main parts, set forth with the thesis that the nature of the biblical ... -
The Year of the Lord's Favor: An Old Testament Theology of the Jubilee
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2019-12-05)This dissertation argues that the Jubilee is (1) a law of ancient Israel that aimed to preserve Israel’s egalitarian system of land tenure, recalled the Sabbath rest of creation, and reenacted Yahweh’s liberation of Israel ... -
Church Transition to Plurality of Elders: A Case Study
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Church Ministries, 2019-12-06)A desire among evangelical churches in denominations such as the Southern Baptist Convention to return to biblical forms of leadership have led a number of churches to examine what seems to many to be the biblical model ... -
A Biblical and Historical Appraisal of Concupiscence with Special Attention to Same-Sex Attraction
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2019-12-13)This dissertation contends that same-sex attraction, since it is a form of concupiscence, is always sinful, morally culpable. Chapter 1 defines concupiscence and summarizes the historical and contemporary debate between ...