Browsing Dissertations, Theses, and Projects by Title
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The Relationship of the Perception of Divine Calling with Identity Development and Purpose in Christian Adolescents
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2010-12)This dissertation explored the possibility of quantifying and measuring the experience of divine calling to develop and utilize a biblically based instrument, the Vectors of Calling Survey (VCS), with older Christian ... -
Relay Succession in the Senior Pastorate: A Multiple Case Study Method
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2011-12-14)The purpose of this research was to articulate the process and principles of relay succession in the senior pastorate within the Church of God (COG). The research was accomplished through three phases and four case ... -
Religions of Israel's Transjordanian neighbors during the Iron Age II period: A comparative study of the religions of Edom, Moab, and Ammon
(2007-08-17)This dissertation studies the religions of the Iron Age II Edomites, Moabites, and Ammonites by means of biblical evidence, extrabiblical evidence, and archaeological evidence. Based on the evidence, the study makes ... -
Religious exemptions from employment discrimination laws: A moral and theological analysis
(2003-12-15)The text of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, as amended, includes an exemption for religious organizations from its prohibitions against employment discrimination on the basis of religion, and the federal courts ... -
Religious feminist revisions of the God-world relationship and implications for evangelical feminism
(2005-05-06)The thesis of this dissertation is that implicit in the use of feminine God-language is a revision of the God-world relationship and this has been worked out explicitly within religious feminism and its doctrinal formulations. ... -
Religious Liberty in Contemporary Evangelical Social Ethics: An Assessment and Framework for Socio-political Challenges
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2018-06-07)Based on a review of the academic literature, evangelical public theology often lacks a systematic, theologically grounded social ethic concerning religious liberty. The resulting impasse is one where religious liberty ... -
"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 ... -
Remnant and restoration as a paradigm of Matthew's theology of Israel
(2004-05)This dissertation shows that Matthew's theology of Israel is based upon the conviction that God will restore the nation of Israel through the preservation of a faithful remnant. Chapter 1 states the purpose for this study, ... -
Resilience Theory and Christian Formation: A Mixed Methods Study
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2019-11-28)This study explored the unexamined relationship between resilience and Christian formation in first-year college students. The study took place at Boyce College in Louisville, Kentucky. A convergent design was used to ... -
Resourcing Members of Highlands Community Church, Renton, Washington, to Minister to Bereaved Parents
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2019-11-20)Jesse Austin Campbell, D.Min. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2019 Faculty Supervisor: Dr. Michael E. Pohlman The gospel of Jesus Christ is the only meaningful hope to be offered parents bereaved by ... -
Responses to the Messianic Claim: Characterization as Rhetorical Device in the Gospel of Matthew
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2023-05-10)While the Gospel of Matthew has long been recognized as having a distinctly “Jewish” orientation, the decades following World War II witnessed a growing interest among scholars asking whether Matthew could be regarded as ... -
Rest in Christ: A Biblical Theology for Mount Vernon Baptist Church in Sandy Springs, GA
God’s rest is an eschatological state established archetypically at creation and fulfilled in Jesus Christ. The rest theme introduced in Genesis 2:2–3 lays the foundation for the fourth commandment—but not in the sense ... -
The restoration theme in the Book of Revelation: From creation to new creation
(2003-05-06)This dissertation demonstrates that the restoration theme is the large theological framework for interpreting Revelation with intertextual connections with Genesis as well as other OT books and intertestamental literature. ... -
Restoring Active Spiritual Oversight to the Elders of Anchorage Grace Church, Anchorage, Alaska
(2013-05-30)This project was designed to help the elders of Anchorage Grace Church regain active spiritual oversight of Grace Christian School through doctrinal accountability and direct spiritual leadership. Chapter 1 gives the ... -
Restoring Confidence in the Sufficiency of the Scriptures for the Soul Care of God’s People in Selected Southern Baptist Churches in Shawnee, Oklahoma
(2018-09-28)ABSTRACT RESTORING CONFIDENCE IN THE SUFFICIENCY OF THE SCRIPTURES FOR THE SOUL CARE OF GOD’S PEOPLE IN SELECTED SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHURCHES IN SHAWNEE, OKLAHOMA John Michael Massey, Sr., D.Min. The ... -
Resurrection Hope in Daniel 12:2: An Exercise in Biblical Theology
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2013-12-31)This dissertation argues that Daniel relied on earlier Old Testament texts and theological convictions when he expressed the hope of bodily resurrection, and his expression informed and shaped subsequent nonbiblical and ... -
Resurrection vs. hallucination: An argument for the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus in terms of probabilistic analysis
(2009-10-09)The purpose of the dissertation is to defend the historicity of Jesus' resurrection in probabilistic way, competing with Gerd Lüdemann's hallucination hypothesis concerning Jesus' postmortem appearances Chapter 1 points ... -
The Retributive Justice of God
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2012-12-14)The primary task of this dissertation is to demonstrate from the Old and New Testaments that given the creation and fall of man, the moral character of God will necessarily express itself in retributive justice so that God ... -
Retrieving a Theology and Methodology for Community in the Local Church from Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Life Together
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2018-03-27)In his book Life Together, Dietrich Bonhoeffer showed that Christian community is created and maintained in Christ through the ordinary means of grace and spiritual disciplines. Chapter 1 surveys the prominent literature ... -
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 ...