Browsing Dissertations, Theses, and Projects by Issue Date
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Jefferson's Baptists: Evangelical Partisanship in the Early American Republic, 1800-1830
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2023-12)After the Revolution, opportunistic settlers from Virginia began streaming over the Allegheny Mountains to settle frontier lands to the south and west. Numbered among them, Baptists came in droves, spreading not only the ... -
"Their Peculiar Redeemer": Robert Sandeman and the Doctrine of the Atonement
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2023-12)Robert Sandeman (1718–1771) was a Scottish minister who begat the Sandemanian movement that carried into the early nineteenth century. Though Sandeman is widely known for his controversial view on the nature of saving ... -
Application for the Sake of Transformation: A Study of Thomas Manton’s Categorical Approach to Sermon Application
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2023-12)In this dissertation, I argue that Thomas Manton’s categorical approach to sermon application, being thoroughly influenced by William Perkins and the Westminster Directory for Public Worship, maintained a teleological aim ... -
The Impact of Open Theism on C. Peter Wagner's Philosophy of Discipleship
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2023-12)This dissertation demonstrates that Wagner’s philosophy of discipleship emerged from a theological basis established in open theism, affirming God’s limited foreknowledge and omnipotence while denying his immutability. ... -
Equipping Pastors of the Russell Creek Baptist Association in Greensburg, Kentucky, to Counsel Biblically
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2023-12)This project seeks to equip the pastors of the Russell Creek Baptist Association in Greensburg, Kentucky, to counsel biblically. Chapter 1 briefly introduces the ministry context of the Russell Creek Baptist Association ... -
Christian Curriculum Emphases and Academic Rigor: A Mixed Methods Study
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2023-06-19)Chapter 1 of this study explores the relationship between Christian curricular emphases and academic rigor among Christian secondary schools. It uses convergent data transformation methods to analyze published curriculum ... -
Responses to the Messianic Claim: Characterization as Rhetorical Device in the Gospel of Matthew
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2023-05-10)While the Gospel of Matthew has long been recognized as having a distinctly “Jewish” orientation, the decades following World War II witnessed a growing interest among scholars asking whether Matthew could be regarded as ... -
The Kingdom Agents or, the Twin Operations of Kingdom and Empire in the Trials of Jesus and Paul
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2023-05-05)Both Luke and Acts end with a strikingly similar series of events: the protagonists of those books (Jesus and Paul, respectively) are called before Roman judicial tribunals who repeatedly find them innocent of any charges ... -
The Command from His Father: Begotten not Made, Submissive not Subservient, Assigned not Subjected
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2023-05-05)While a majority of contemporary theologians conceptualize the Trinity as ordered relations with unstructured authority (ORUA), other theologians view the Trinity as possessing eternal relations of authority and submission ... -
Reading the Pausal Forms Together with the Accents in the Masoretic Text
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2023-05-04)Contrary to E. J. Revell’s diachronic view that the pausal forms and accents in the Masoretic Text reflect two different reading traditions, this dissertation contends that reading the pausal forms and accents together is ... -
The Church's Role in a Pandemic: Reflection, Response, and Revival
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The First Translation of the Bible Among Indigenous Islamic Peoples Using a Mediating Approach
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2023-05-01)Bible translators among indigenous, Islamic people groups face difficult decisions when translating key biblical terms. Translators may use a word-for-word approach which can leave the reader with little meaning or the ... -
“Eminent Spirituality and Eminent Usefulness”: Andrew Fuller’s Contribution to the Revitalization of the Particular Baptists in the Long Eighteenth Century
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2023-05-01)Andrew Fuller was convinced that eminent spirituality in a minister would usually be attended with eminent usefulness in the ministry. Chapter 1 introduces the thesis and argues that this foundational conviction drove ... -
Training Preachers in Sacred Rhetoric Commonly Associated with African-American Preaching at Cornerstone Baptist Church in Wilmington, North, Carolina
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2023-05-01)The purpose of this project was to train preachers in sacred rhetoric commonly associated with African American preaching for the improvement of biblical exposition in the context of Wilmington, North Carolina. Chapter 1 ... -
A Theological Analysis of the Educational Method of Maria Montessori Using an Inverse Consistency Protocol
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminaryBilly Graham School of Missions and Evangelism, 2023-05)The Montessori approach to education has been embraced by a wide variety of educators around the world. Ironically, though, as secular educators have accepted Maria Montessori’s pedagogical methods, little research has ... -
Singing the Self: Exploring the Role of Congregational Song in Identity Formation
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Church Ministries, 2023-04-30)This dissertation evaluates aspects of identity formation research, drawn fromthe social sciences, and interprets the findings from a Christian theological perspective. I argue that liturgical practices provide believers, ... -
Best Practices in Leading Organizational Change in the Local Church: A Multi-Case Study
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2023-04-30)This dissertation was designed to identify best practices for leading organizational change in the local church ministering in an urban context. The dissertation also sought to determine whether the leadership in the local ... -
Measuring the Usefulness of the Discipleship Pathway Assessment in the Local Church
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2023-04-30)This ministry project was designed to measure the usefulness of Lifeway’s Discipleship Pathway Assessment in local churches. The chapters show why there is a need for an assessment tool that measures spiritual growth while ... -
Missionary Preparation and Care at Mercy Church, in Charlotte, North Carolina
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2023-04-30)The purpose of this project is to establish a program for missionary preparation and care a Mercy Church. Chapter 1 describes the context, rationale, purpose, goals, research methodology definitions, and limitations/delimitations ... -
The Middle Voice in the Septuagint and the Greek New Testament
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2023-04-29)The Hellenistic Greek verbal system was capable of communicating three voices: active, middle, and passive. Of these, the middle voice has long proven the most difficult for English speakers to understand. Questions exist ...