Open Access Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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The First Translation of the Bible Among Indigenous Islamic Peoples Using a Mediating Approach
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2023-05-01)Bible translators among indigenous, Islamic people groups face difficult decisions when translating key biblical terms. Translators may use a word-for-word approach which can leave the reader with little meaning or the ... -
The Church's Role in a Pandemic: Reflection, Response, and Revival
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A New Identity of Obligation: Paul's Metaphorical Response to the Indicative-Imperative Tension in Romans 6:1–14
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2023-03-31)This dissertation recognizes that in Romans 6:1–14, Paul responds to the “indicative-imperative” tension, which arises from his gospel in Romans 3–5. It then argues that Paul’s response to this tension comes in the form ... -
A Baptist doctrine of ordination studied in confessional tradition, the works of J.R. Graves and R.B.C. Howell and actual practice in Kentucky
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The Literary Structure of the Fifth Book of the Hebrew Psalter: A Structural Analysis and Canonical Reading of Psalms 107–150
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-12-31)This thesis maintains that the fifth book of the Hebrew Psalter subdivides into three sections, each of which portray the coming Davidic King from a different angle in order to present a three-dimensional messianic portrait. ... -
The Theology of Intercessory Prayer: with Special Reference to Contemporary Protestant Theology
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Sheol and Pre-exilic Palestinian Burial Practices
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1965) -
Curriculum Changes in Worship Leader Training at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary from 1980 to 2019
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Church Ministries, 2022-11-11)The School of Church Music and Department of Biblical Worship at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary has been training ministers of music, worship pastors, and worship leaders since 1944. During this span, the School ... -
E.K. Bailey's Hermeneutic for Preaching
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-11-01)E. K. Bailey’s (1945-2003) pulpit ministry at Concord Baptist Church, Dallas, Texas, demonstrated the non-monolithic nature of Black Sacred Rhetoric. Bailey’s preaching employed an author-centered hermeneutic while attending ... -
Paul and Allegory: Galatians 4:21–31 Revisited
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-11-11)Those engaged in modern hermeneutical debates have begun to look afresh at the apostles for guidance concerning how one should read the Bible. How did the apostles read, and do their methods match those used in modern ... -
Irenaeus's Defense of the Old Testament as Part of the Canon of Scripture
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-10-17)During the second century, emerging Christianity had to wrestle with its understanding of the Jewishness of both Jesus of Nazareth and the Old Testament Scriptures. Two voices emerged within the Church as it wrestled with ... -
The Tripartite Impact of Pornography Consumption in the Local Church: Brain, Body, and Balance of Life
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-12-01)The tripartite impact of pornography on the brain, body, and balance of life, as well as the impact on the local church, is in need of further analysis and study. This need grows daily due to the ever increasing availability ... -
Paul's Endangered Benefactor: Galatians in Its Benefaction Context
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-09-29)Paul’s use of the word χάρις (“generosity,” “benefaction,” “gratitude”) in Galatians (Gal 1:3, 6, 15; 2:9, 21; 5:4; 6:18; cf. χαρίζεσθαι in 3:18) opens the possibility for understanding his interaction with the wider ... -
Utilizing a Reformed Sanctification Framework to Assess and Evaluate C. Peter Wagner’s Doctrine of Sanctification
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2022-09-26)Through the utilization of John David Trentham’s Inverse Consistency Protocol (ICP) as a methodological paradigm to define, reflect on, evaluate, and assess Wagner’s philosophy of discipleship, this thesis demonstrates ... -
The Mercati Fragments: A New Edition of Rahlfs 1098
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-12-05)This project uses multispectral images of Rahlfs 1098 in order to reexamine thetext of the scriptura inferior (lower layer) containing the Hexapla of Psalms 1788. In chapter 1, I present the aim of the project which is ... -
The Cohesive Rhetoric of Jesus: The Role of Matthew 6:19–7:11 in the Sermon on the Mount
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-12-02)For centuries, the Sermon on the Mount has received particular attention as a discrete unit of Christ’s teaching, yet disagreement reigns among its interpreters. A central concern among the Sermon’s interpreters is the ... -
These are the Words of Eusebius: A Translation and Analysis of the Colophon at the End of Fourth Kingdoms in BnF syr. 27
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-12-02)Over three chapters, this thesis studies the colophon at the end of FourthKingdoms in BnF Syr. 27, which is divided into several main sections. Chapter 1 provides a transcription of the colophon, analysis of the main ... -
Breath of Life: A Biblical Understanding of the Human–Animal Distinction and a Critique of Contemporary Theological Anthropology
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-12-05)“If you have no doctrine of creation, you have no doctrine of salvation.” With one pithy sentence, Peter Gentry exposes the foundational support for my dissertation. It has become popular recently in the interaction between ... -
"The Bond of Union": Yankee Protestantism, National Ambition, and the Erie Canal, 1817–1851
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-12-02)New York Protestants modified their faith to address the social conditions wrought by the Erie Canal. The Erie Canal was a triumph of early republic engineering, and New Yorkers interpreted the process of organizing, ... -
Charles Hodge: Evangelical Mystic
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-12-02)Princeton theologian Charles Hodge is the emblematic American Presbyterian. Hodge’s spirituality, however, is not only misunderstood, it is largely ignored as the best example of Presbyterian piety and spirituality. Some ...