Browsing Dissertations, Theses, and Projects by Title

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    • A narrative-critical reading of God as a character in the Gospel of Matthew 

      Kim, Dong H. (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2005-10-10)
      This dissertation examines the function of God as a character, and how the characterization of God works within the narrative of the Gospel of Matthew. Chapter 1 presented a rationale for the study of God as a character. ...

    • The nature of the believer's assurance of eternal life in 1 John 

      Bass, Christopher David (2006-12-08)
      This dissertation argues that John fundamentally grounds the believer's assurance in the work of Christ and promise of divine preservation, while supporting this assurance in a vital yet subsidiary way by the manner in ...

    • The Necessity of a Christocentric, Kingdom-Focused Model of Expository Preaching 

      Prince, David Edward (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2011-12-14)
      ABSTRACT THE NECESSITY OF A CHRISTOCENTRIC KINGDOM-FOCUSED MODEL OF EXPOSITORY PREACHING David E. Prince, PH.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2011 Chairperson: Dr. Russell D. Moore The ...

    • The Negative Motif of the Sea in the Old Testament 

      Lovett, Kenneth W. (Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2019-05-09)
      This dissertation demonstrates that the sea is consistently a negative motif in the OT. Chapter 2 introduces Hermann Gunkel because he wrote the foundational work on the topic of the chaotic sea in the OT. He argued that ...

    • A Neo-Tolstoyan Response to Kitsch 

      Cabal, Daniel Joseph (Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2018-11-16)
      Leo Tolstoy’s aesthetic theory in What is Art? defines art as the transmission of emotion through the creation of an object. Awareness of Tolstoy’s history and beliefs extends a more generous understanding to some of his ...

    • The New Authority of the Resurrected Jesus in the Gospels 

      Gregory, Scott Wesson (Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-04-29)
      Following the evangelists’ emphases in characterizing Jesus, a study of all four resurrection accounts reveals two major themes, namely, that Jesus is (1) the same person as before and (2) one with great and expanded ...

    • The New Covenant in Ephesians 

      Greever, Joshua (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2014-05-16)
      This dissertation maintains that the new covenant was a significant soteriological, ecclesiological, and ethical category in Paul's theology. Using Ephesians as a test case, it analyzes the relevant texts where Paul seems ...

    • A New Era of Global Mission: Cities, the Least Reached, and Marketplace Work 

      Zeller, Scott (2016-01-05)
      This thesis argues for the mobilization of marketplace professionals into global missions, particularly in the cities of the world where the least reached peoples are gathering. Chapter 1 sets the stage by describing ...

    • The New Exodus in Hebrews 

      Ndzi, Jones Ngeh (Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2018-11-13)
      This dissertation argues that four prominent exodus categories serve the author of Hebrews in his explication of Christ’s redemptive accomplishment. Attending to the author’s use of exodus language it analyzes relevant ...

    • New Exodus, New Covenant, New Creation: The Reuse of the Old Testament in Joel 

      Atkinson, Jonathan (Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-04-28)
      The book of Joel has numerous parallels with other Old Testament texts, so much so that Joel has often been described as an interpreter of Scripture rather than a traditional prophet. Often, some of these parallels have ...

    • A New Freshman Composition Pedagogy for Christian Colleges and Universities 

      Crider, Amy Leigh (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2018-01-02)
      Freshman composition instructors at Christian institutions face a disturbing predicament: competing pedagogies, administrative pressure to prove freshman composition’s merit, public clamoring for greater return on the ...

    • The New Interpretation of Democracy 

      Stivender, James Calvin (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1919)

    • New Life, Better Life: Developing a Model for Church Revitalization from the Book of Hebrews 

      Wootton, Joshua Michael
      The aim of this project is to explore the author of Hebrews’ approach to revitalization. The book of Hebrews demonstrates that church revitalization is not merely a matter of replacing an antiquated model for something ...

    • New Testament Persecution and the Inception of Diokology through the Application of the Regnal Righteousness Dynamic 

      Cochran, Gregory (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2010-05)
      This dissertation seeks to derive a biblical definition of Christian persecution which both identifies the essential character of Christian persecution and offers a pragmatic application of the definition in Christian ...

    • The Non-Ending Search for a Pre-DNA Replicator: Richard Dawkins and the Problem of Abiogenesis 

      Fryar, Randall Scott (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2014-05-16)
      This dissertation provides a rebuttal to the claims of Richard Dawkins in explaining the origin of life. The bulk of the ensuing analysis challenges his philosophical assumptions as it notes his vacillation between several ...

    • None So Tender-Hearted: The Christological Pattern of Compassion in the Pastoral Care of John Flavel 

      Elliott, Matthew (Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-04-25)
      This dissertation examines compassion as an integral component of John Flavel’s pastoral theology. The research explores the connection between Flavel’s Christology and pastoral care through a prism of three interconnected ...

    • Northern Thai Theravada Folk Buddhism through the Eyes of Buddhist Background Believers 

      Walburn, Nicholas Blaine (Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2018-11-16)
      NORTHERN THAI THERAVADA FOLK BUDDHISM THROUGH THE EYES OF BUDDHIST BACKGROUND BELIEVERS Nicholas Blaine Walburn, PhD The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2018 Chair: Dr. George H. Martin The research ...

    • Not Slaves but Sons: A Biblical Theology of Galatians for Minden Baptist Church in Minden, TX 

      Pitts, Matthew (2018-09-28)
      This project provides a series of seven sermons expounding the bulk of the book of Galatians from a biblical-theological perspective. The first chapter gives an explanation of what biblical theology is and how it aides our ...

    • Old Testament characters as Christological witnesses in the Fourth Gospel 

      Ahn, Sanghee Michael (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2006-11-01)
      This dissertation examines the Christological witness function of the Old Testament characters in the Gospel of John. Chapter 1 discusses the problem concomitant to the bi-partite nature of the Christian Bible and the ...

    • The omnipresence of Jesus Christ: A neglected aspect of evangelical christology 

      Zachariades, Theodore (2004-04-22)
      This dissertation addresses the incarnation of Jesus Christ, and particularly the attribute of omnipresence in relation to the God-Man. Chapter 1 introduces the subject matter by defining incarnation, sets forth my ...