Dissertations, Theses, and Projects: Recent submissions
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Microstructure and Macrostructure in Isaiah 28–35
(The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2025-12)This dissertation begins by briefly reviewing the history of research regarding poetic microstructure and macrostructure. The key takeaways are that although Robert Lowth articulated Hebrew poetry as consisting of meter ... -
Evangelism Approaches to Latter-Day Saints Evaluated in Light of Acts 17:16-34
(The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2025-12)Soon after Joseph Smith Jr. founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church/LDS), evangelicals sought to defend evangelicalism from Latter-day Saint teachings. Likewise, evangelicals have provided many ... -
Applying a Cognitive Development Curriculum to Improve Academic Performance at Boyce College
(The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2025-12)The purpose of this quantitative replication of Carol Brown’s 2016 doctoral thesis is to use the Equipping Minds Cognitive Development Curriculum to address underlying deficits in cognitive abilities to increase academic ... -
A Mixed Methods Multiple Case Study of Church-Based Multiethnic Leadership Development Programs
(The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2024-05)The purpose of this study was to better understand how multiethnic churches develop leaders from within their congregations. The urgency for this study arises from two observations. First, the biblical-theological narrative ... -
Word and Image: A Theology of Media As Extensions of the Person
(The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2025-12)I argue that considering media as extensions—the extension language such as used in Marshall McLuhan’s discussion of the relationship of media to persons goes beyond comparing a medium to a tool and ties a medium to its ... -
Laborers in God's Vineyard: William Kiffen and the Formation of Seventeenth-Century Particular Baptist Associations
(The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2025-12)William Kiffen quickly became a leader among Particular Baptists in mid-seventeenth-century England. His role among them brings clarification for why Baptists decided to start associations. This dissertation seeks to ... -
Sin and Emotion in the Preaching of Martyn Lloyd-Jones
(The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2025-12)In this dissertation, I argue that a major aim of Martyn Lloyd-Jones’s preaching was to make sin felt. This is done by showing that his theology demands, his specific goals confirm, and his methods fulfil the aim of preaching ... -
Pneumatological Ecclesiology: The Holy Spirit and the Church in Trinitarian Perspective
(The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2025-12)This study constructs a Reformed pneumatological ecclesiology by examining the person and work of the Holy Spirit within the biblical and classical Trinitarian framework. Without according priority to the Spirit over the ... -
Corporate Social Irresponsibility: A Critique of American Businesses’ Vacillating Stakeholder Strategies in Reaction to Public Opinion
(The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2025-12)Most Western corporations today subscribe to some form of stakeholder theory, which assumes that businesses have communal obligations extending beyond the maximization of shareholder profits. Companies adopt Corporate ... -
Hypocrisy in Rival Traditions: A Dialogue Between Matthew and Epictetus
(The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2025-12)The main question this dissertation answers is this: What does a dialogical comparison on hypocrisy between the rival traditions of Matthew and Epictetus reveal about Matthew’s concept of hypocrisy? I argue that a dialogical ... -
Begetting, Not Making, in the Brave New World: IVF Abstinence and Considerations for a Christian Ethic
(The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2025-12)This dissertation seeks to answer the question: How should evangelicals think about and position themselves toward in vitro fertilization (IVF) and similar artificial reproductive technologies (ARTs)? I argue that evangelical ... -
Discourse for Preaching: The Homiletical Significance of Selected Greek Conjunctions in the Epistle to the Hebrews
(The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2025-12)This dissertation is aimed at understanding how Greek conjunctions serve as authorial instruction to discern the discourse structure of the Epistle to the Hebrews to guide expositors to establish a homiletical structure ... -
Strengthening Alvin Plantinga’s Felix Culpa Theodicy Through the Addition of Eschatological Hope
(The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2025-12)Alvin Plantinga’s O Felix Culpa theodicy posits that worlds with incarnation and atonement are of maximal value, inherently containing evil as a necessary condition. While Plantinga’s Free Will Defense has garnered extensive ... -
The Biblical Design Purpose of Sex Applied to Issues of Personal Sexuality
(The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2025-12)This dissertation argues that the Bible provides a clear, inherent design purpose for human sexuality and that this design serves as the measure for determining ethical sexual activity. Historically, both Western civilization ... -
“My Heart is Steadfast”: A Theological Framework From Selected Psalms of David for Considering Trauma
(The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2025-12)Burgeoning research about trauma tends to preclude biblical consideration on the one hand or to improperly eisegete trauma into the biblical text on the other hand. How does Scripture—and the book of Psalms in particular—guide ... -
In Terms of an Open Sky: Hans Rookmaaker's Reformed Approach to Art and Culture
(The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2025-12)In his work as an art historian, Hans Rookmaaker approaches art and culture from a reformed perspective. The research question asks what theological, philosophical, and aesthetic commitments contributed to Rookmaaker’s ... -
"An Eighteenth-Century Man": David Martyn Lloyd-Jones as a Pastor-Historian
(The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2025-12)David Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899–1981) stands as one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century evangelicalism. Now, forty years after his death, there is a need for further study to understand Lloyd-Jones in light ... -
A Theological Analysis of C. S. Lewis's Argument from Desire
(The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2025-12)This dissertation presents a theological analysis of C. S. Lewis’s Argument from Desire (AFD), examining how the experience he describes as desire, longing, Joy, or Sehnsucht reveals humanity’s natural inclination toward ... -
The Twofold Reign of Christ: A Baptist Approach to Two Kingdoms Theology
(The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2025-12)The thesis argued in this dissertation is a Baptist political theology can and should maintain Christ’s twofold kingship and entails: (1) a maximalist form of church governance as regenerate membership and congregationalism ... -
The Shiraz Controversy: Henry Martyn, Crucicentric Conversionism, and Islam 1811–12
(The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2025-12)While translating the New Testament in Shiraz, Persia, in 1811–12, East India Company chaplain Henry Martyn (1781–1812) also composed three Persian tracts—the Shiraz Controversy—which presented Evangelical Christianity to ...