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From This Day Forward: New Covenant Inauguration in Hebrews
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2023-12)It is often assumed that Hebrews presents Jesus as having inaugurated the new covenant at the cross. Building on the work of David Moffitt and R. B. Jamieson, I explore this topic, asking when and where the new covenant ... -
A Powerful Word: On Defining and Responding Justly to Abuse
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Church Ministries, 2023-12)The topic of abuse has received increased societal scrutiny of late, and with good reason. Yet the very subjectivity of the term can be problematic, as most resources on abuse do not give adequate attention to the question ... -
Application for the Sake of Transformation: A Study of Thomas Manton’s Categorical Approach to Sermon Application
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Augustine’s Understanding of the Human Soul: Origin, Life, and End
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2023-12)This dissertation argues that Augustine’s conceptualization of the human soul is intricately linked to the guidance provided by Scripture and tradition. Augustine believed that the Scriptures teach the creation of the human ... -
The Role of Female Biblical Counselors in Complementarian Churches
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2023-12)In this dissertation, I argue that the role of female biblical counselors in complementarian churches is to minister to men and couples in addition to women and children, under the shepherding oversight of the elders. To ... -
Four Practices Correlated to a Sense of Belonging in a Church
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2023-12)This dissertation examines the communal practices of mutual support, vulnerability, forgiveness, and accountability as well as their correlation with the sense of belonging that members feel in regard to a church community. ... -
A Mixed Methods Multiple Case Study of Church-Based Multiethnic Leadership Development Programs
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Church Ministries, 2023-12)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 ... -
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out: The Shining Face of Moses in Exodus 34:29−35
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2023-12)The shining face of Moses in Exodus 34:29–35 is a peculiar instance that is never explicitly repeated or explained in the Pentateuch, let alone the Hebrew Bible. To add to the confusion, Moses’s face, if translated literally, ... -
Utilizing a Reformed Sanctification Framework to Assess and Evaluate C. Peter Wagner’s Doctrine of Sanctification
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2023-12)Through the utilization of John David Trentham’s Inverse Consistency Protocol (ICP) as a methodological paradigm to define, reflect on, evaluate, and assess C. Peter Wagner’s philosophy of discipleship, this thesis ... -
Paul’s Gospel Approach to the Athenians: A Missional Implication for Contemporary Nepalese Hindu Contexts
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2023-12)Eastern philosophies, especially Hinduism, are appealing to the Western mind. Hindu adherents can be found in many neighborhoods with Hindu temples in nearby towns and cities. Instead of proclaiming the uncompromised gospel ... -
The Black Church as Context for the Formation of Black Institutions of Higher Education: A Case Study of Simmons College
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2023-12)African Americans have long been serious about education. Even when education was denied to black Americans through law, custom, and physical violence, blacks exerted relentless self-determination in the pursuit of literacy. ... -
Put on the New Man: Embodied Sanctification in Ephesians 4:22-24
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2023-12)Academically and popularly, many in the history of the church have tended toward views of human constitution that locate spiritual growth in the realm of the immaterial. In contrast, I argue that progressive sanctification ... -
“The Steady Obedience of His Church”: The Ecclesial Spirituality of Joseph Kinghorn and the Communion Controversy, 1814–1827
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2023-12)Despite being recognised as one of the most learned English Particular Baptists, Joseph Kinghorn’s (1766–1832) legacy was damaged due to his defence of the close communion position during the more than a decade-long debate ... -
"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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ...