Dissertations, Theses, and Projects: Recent submissions
Now showing items 41-60 of 1901
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The Beginning of the End: Interpreting the Seals of Revelation 6 Using Biblical Theology for Hillcrest Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky
(The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2025-12)During the COVID-19 pandemic, some social media sources that claimed to be Christian taught that the vaccine was the mark of the beast. This led some church members who had heard these ideas on social media to become fearful ... -
Equipping Lay Leaders in Expository Preaching at Four Points Baptist Church in Centreville, Alabama
(The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2025-12)This project was designed to equip elder-qualified men in expository preaching at Four Points Baptist Church in Centreville, Alabama. Chapter 1 provides the context, rationale, purpose, goals, and research methodology of ... -
Entrenando maestros de escuela Sabática de congregaciones adventistas hispanas del Bronx, New York, en los principios de la enseñanza
(The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2025-12)The purpose of this project is to train Sabbath School teachers in teaching principles so that they can develop and implement a comprehensive pedagogical methodology that encourages active student participation in classes, ... -
Developing a Discipleship Process for Young Adults at Brentwood Baptist Church in Brentwood, Tennessee
(The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2025-12)The purpose of this project was to develop a discipleship process for young adults at Brentwood Baptist Church in Brentwood, Tennessee, by developing and teaching a four-session class on multilevel discipleship that addresses ... -
Training The Deacons Of One Vision In Christ Community Baptist Church of Indianapolis, Indiana, In Basic Bible Doctrines
(The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2025-12)This project sought to train the deacons of One Vision in Christ Community Baptist Church in basic Bible doctrines and to help them grow in their understanding of God, the Bible, and the gospel. Chapter 1 presents the ... -
Teaching the Significance of the Lord’s Day to the Members of the Gospel of Christ Church of Pasadena, California
(The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2025-12)This project aimed to equip members of the Gospel of Christ Church in Pasadena, California, with biblical knowledge about the significance of the Lord’s Day in the life of the local church. Chapter 1 presents the history ... -
Indigenous preaching in China with a focal critique on John Sung
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The reflex effect of the Foreign Mission movement among American Baptists
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Training Small Group Teachers in Didactics in the German-Speaking Churches of Action Biblique, Switzerland
(The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2025-06)This project sought to train small group teachers in Switzerland’s German speaking churches of Action Biblique. Chapter 1 presents the ministry context of Action Biblique and the goals of this project. Chapter 2 provides ... -
Hebrew Verbal System and the Use of Weqatal and Wayyiqtol in Discourse-Thematic Analysis
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2025)This dissertation employs Conceptual Projection Theory to uncover the prototypical features of the Hebrew verb forms qatal, yiqtol, weqatal, and wayyiqtol. The theory encourages viewing the prefixed waw of weqatal and ... -
Whatever Is Done in Secret: A Christian Moral Analysis of a Right to Privacy for a Digital Age
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2025)In this project, the right to privacy is argued to be an inherent aspect of being human, flowing from humanity’s being created in the imago Dei and the corresponding nature of human rights and duties. Chapter 1 situates ... -
Fulfilling the Image of God: A Biblical Framework for a Christocentric Natural Law Theory and Human Flourishing
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2025)What is a proper biblical description of the relationship between the natural law and humanity’s status as image bearers of God? In this dissertation, I contend that the imago Dei and the natural law hold a complementary ... -
From Him and Through Him and to Him: A Dogmatic Account of Participation in God
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2025)In this dissertation, I offer a constructive account of participation in God, drawing specifically from Thomas Aquinas and the Reformed orthodox. Such a conception of participation, I argue, is ontologically grounded grammar ... -
God and Nature: Retrieving Herman Bavinck's Approach to Natural Theology
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2025)This dissertation offers a constructive and Christian theological account of the project of natural theology, especially by putting Herman Bavinck in dialogue with contemporary alternatives today. In its methodology, the ... -
Native Knowing, Western Knowing, and Biblical Knowing: Developing an Integrated Epistemology for Missions
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2025)Since the last half of the twentieth century, missiologists have recognized the need to shift away from Enlightenment epistemologies in order to develop contextualized missionary practices. Prominent missiologists Lesslie ... -
The Treasury of Solomon: A Retrieval of Charles H. Spurgeon’s (1834–1892) Spirituality of the Song of Songs
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2025)In this dissertation, I argue that Charles H. Spurgeon, in light of his Christ-centered hermeneutical and homiletical convictions, practiced the spiritual, christological interpretation of the Song of Songs, and that his ... -
"Put on the Lord Jesus Christ": A Study of Clothing Metaphors in Paul's Ethics
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2025)This dissertation explores the meaning and cognitive function of Paul’s clothing metaphors in his ethical teachings, employing select concepts from modern metaphor theory. I argue that Paul’s clothing metaphors in three ... -
Church and Empire in the Theology of Hippolytus of Rome
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2025)In this study, I explore Hippolytus of Rome’s views on church and empire within the context of his theology. My central thesis is that Hippolytus’s apocalyptic vision of Christ as the image of God profoundly shaped his ... -
“From the Beginning”: Christology and Ethics in 1 John
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2025)This project examines the passages where John uses ἀρχή exclusively with ἀπό (and hence ἀπ᾽ ἀρχῆς, “from the beginning,” FTB) in 1 John in light of understanding its Christology and ethics. I argue that John uses the phrase ... -
Natural Law and Virtue Ethics in Justin Martyr
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2025)This study contends that due to the natural law’s universal knowability, Justin used it to construct an apologetic within an eudaimonistic account of Christian virtue that served his political, theological, and evangelistic ...