Open Access Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Multi-Racial Team Leadership in the Church: A Mixed Methods Study
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-12-01)If the church in the United States is ever going to make progress in becoming more racially diverse, it must be led by racially diverse leadership. But racially diverse leadership teams are rare, and many of the few that ... -
Toward Creaturely Value: God's Inner Processive Life and the Intrinsic Value of Creatures in Thomas Aquinas
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-12-01)The intrinsic value of creatures is defensible on many accounts, though more rarely from a speculative, metaphysical, and theological perspective. In this thesis, I seek to establish and elaborate the connection between ... -
The Impact of Open Theism on C. Peter Wagner's Philosophy of Discipleship
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2022-09-26)This thesis demonstrates that Wagner’s philosophy of discipleship emerged from a theological basis established in open theism, affirming God limited his foreknowledge and omnipotence while denying his immutability. Moreover, ... -
Conflict Management Among Church Elders: A Delphi Study
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-11-30)This Delphi study was conducted in an effort to enhance church elders’ ability to manage conflict amongst themselves in ways that honor God and benefit the church. With a firm commitment to building upon the biblical ... -
Reforming Virtue: Bavinck's Method of Engaging with Virtue Ethics from a Reformed Perspective
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-11-30)There is a distinct reluctance in the Reformed tradition to engage with natural theology and scholarship in the study of, among other things, virtue ethics. This thesis attempts to demonstrate that Herman Bavinck’s four ... -
Equipping Leaders for Discipling Public-School Adolescents in Chinese House Churches: A Mixed Methods Study
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2022-11-28)Chinese adolescents who attend house churches play a vital role in growing the body of Christ and leading the church to flourish. Hence, the church must assist them to establish identities in Christ and achieve spiritual ... -
Foreign Language Acquisition among Children with Down Syndrome: A Precedent Study for Christian Schools
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2022-11-28)Children with Down syndrome are largely excluded from the foreign language classroom, and no research exists documenting their abilities to learn a foreign language. Research is needed to demonstrate the abilities of ... -
Eternal Anthropology in Evangelical Eschatology: An Assessment of Three Models and an Argument for Kingdom Theology
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-11-26)By examining three models of the anthropology of the everlasting kingdom and the biblical and theological arguments that underlie them, I argue that the Kingdom Theology (referred to as Progressive Dispensationalism for ... -
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)