Dissertations, Theses, and Projects: Recent submissions
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Training the Laypeople at Jersey Baptist Church of New Albany, Ohio, to Engage Mormons with the Gospel
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2023-03-09)This project develops an evangelistic strategy training laypeople to engage Mormons with the gospel. The first chapter provides basic introductory information concerning the need for evangelizing Mormons in Columbus, Ohio. ... -
Equipping the Eighth Grade Boys at Immanuel Christian School in Springfield, Virginia, to Understand and Practice Spiritual Disciplines
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Ministries, 2022-12-21)This project seeks to equip the eighth-grade boys at Immanuel Christian School in Springfield, Virginia, to understand and practice spiritual disciplines. Chapter 1 shares the ministry context of ICS and the goals of this ... -
The Theology of Intercessory Prayer: with Special Reference to Contemporary Protestant Theology
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1969)Few affirmations of the Christian faith generate as many questions and doubts as the belief in the efficacy of petitionary and intercessory prayer. Does God respond to men's prayers? If so, how? The primary purpose of ... -
Sheol and Pre-exilic Palestinian Burial Practices
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 Fourth Kingdoms in BnF Syr. 27, which is divided into several main sections. Chapter 1 provides a transcription of the colophon, analysis of the main ... -
"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 ... -
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, ...