Browsing Restricted Access Dissertations and Theses by Issue Date
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Practicing Biblical Stewardship As a Means to Disciple Adolescents in the Youth Sports Culture
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The Historiography of Chronicles as Reflected in Its Account of Solomon's Reign
(2010-12)This dissertation is a study of "intertextuality" between the books of Chronicles and Kings, focusing on the Solomon narrative. Contrary to the current scholarly conviction that Chronicles is unreliable historiography, ... -
Institutional Commitment of Faculty in Evangelical Colleges and Universities
(2010-12)Organizational commitment has been understood to be a significant antecedent of employee turnover. The fact that work occupies the better part of one's day and the considerable costs associated with turnover has heightened ... -
An Analysis of the Relationship between Adolescent Spiritual Development and Father Involvement
(2010-12)The research study was an examination of the correlation between father involvement and the spiritual development of adolescents. Father involvement was assessed based on the adolescent's perception in twenty domains of ... -
Faith Maturity: A Comparison between Young Adults in Emerging Churches and in Conservative Evangelical Churches
(2010-12)This dissertation examined the faith maturity scores of young adults in emerging churches and in conservative Evangelical churches. An analysis of faith maturity as well as an overview of emerging churches and conservative ... -
"The Lord Your God Is in Your Midst": The Presence of God and the Means and End of Redemptive History
(2010-05)This dissertation proposes that, very simply, the presence of God is a central theme of biblical revelation. More specifically, it argues that God's presence is significant to the theological message of Scripture because ... -
The Arsenal of the Hebrew Kings and their Neighbors: A Description of Biblical Weapons in the Iron Age
(2010-05)This dissertation is a detailed study of biblical weapons of the monarchy period. It gathers in one place relevant data from the biblical text, the ancient artistic illustrations, and the archaeological artifacts. By ... -
A Case for the Traditional Translation of the Shema, Hear, O Israel: The Lord Our God, the Lord Is One
(2010-05)This dissertation investigates the evidence to determine the best English translation for the Shema (Deut 6:4), by analyzing the historical interpretation of the verse through the last 2500 years, and the pertinent ... -
God and Moral Facts: A Trinitarian Realist Model of Christian Metaethics
(2010-05)This dissertation is a model of Christian metaethics based on God's Triune nature. Chapter 1 discusses overall issues and problems in metaethics and how they relate to Christian theology, with emphasis on problems for ... -
A Cross-Cultural Study of Factors Motivating Church of Christ Ministry Students to Enter Ministry
(2010-05)This dissertation is a cross-cultural study of ministry students at select Church of Christ schools in the United States, Panama, India, and Nigeria who are preparing for ministries related to the teaching of the Word ... -
The Influence of Common Sense Realism on Alexander Campbell's View of the Nature of Scripture and Hermeneutics
(2010-05)This dissertation examines the influence of Common Sense Realism on Alexander Campbell's view of the nature of Scripture and hermeneutics. The first chapter discusses Campbell's relationship with the philosophy of Common ... -
An Analysis of Selected Variables that Influence Postsuccession Performance in Southern Baptist Churches
(2010-05)The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between presuccession contextual and performance variables, successor origin, and postsuccession performance. Old and New Testament Scriptures give certain ... -
The Parables and Miracles of Jesus Christ: A Musical Drama
(2010-05)This dissertation presents a musical drama for narration, choir, and orchestra. First, it examines the definition and the history of musical drama and its influence on Christian life from the perspective of theology and ... -
A critical edition of the hexaplaric fragments of Numbers 1-18
(2010-03-16)This dissertation consists of the first complete critical edition of the hexaplaric fragments of Numbers 1-18 from all known Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, Syriac, and Latin sources since the publication of Frederick Field's ... -
Inductive preaching with clarity: Qualifying a preacher's employment of Jesus' parable method
(2009-12-11)This dissertation examines Jesus' parable methodology as recorded in Matthew and asks if modern preaching that emulates his method requires any qualifications. Chapter 1 surveys the interest Jesus' preaching methods receive ... -
An assessment of the missional model of graduate theological education: A case study
(2009-12-11)Background. Leadership development from a missional perspective is a model being utilized by academic institutions within graduate theological education. Many of the academic institutions utilizing the missional model are ... -
Single young adult attitudes toward Protestant churches and church attendance: A descriptive-correlation study
(2009-12-11)This dissertation is a descriptive and correlational study whose purpose is to understand single young adults by investigating their attitudes toward Protestant churches, and examining relationships between those attitudes ... -
The relationship between leadership styles and learning styles of youth pastors
(2009-12-11)The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between leadership styles and learning styles of youth pastors. The research design for this study was quantitative in nature while utilizing descriptive and ... -
The relationship between perceived social support and egocentrism among older adolescents
(2009-12-11)This dissertation examines the relationship between perceived social support and egocentrism among older adolescents. Chapter I defines the research concern. If social support plays a significant role in the life of the ... -
Empirical exploration of wisdom from a Christian psychology perspective
(2009-12-01)Understanding and obtaining wisdom has been one of the most significant enterprises of mankind since the early efforts of thinkers in ancient times. While wisdom is involved in every aspect and function of human nature ...