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A Historical Study of Alien Baptism among Baptists since 1640
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Edgar Young Mullins : A Baptist Exponent of Theological Restatement
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The Tyndale House Greek New Testament and Nestle-Aland Tradition as Complementary, Not Competitive Critical Editions
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-05-04)This dissertation is a detailed comparison of the texts and textual apparatuses of the Tyndale House Greek New Testament (THGNT) and Nestle-Aland tradition (especially the NA27 and NA28). Its thesis is that these two ... -
An Historical Study of the Tithe in the Christian Church to 1648
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Divine and Human Agency by Means of the Covenant: The Anti-Pelagian Theology of John Owen
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-04-30)Chapter 1 presented the thesis and purpose of this research. Throughout his life, John Owen vindicated an anti-Pelagian soteriology through divine and human agencies in the covenant. Owen was anti-Pelagian despite his ... -
The Significance of the Account of the Nazareth Episode in the Gospel of Luke
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James Madison Pendleton : A Critical Biography
(The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1962) -
Consilia: Catholic Inroads at the Puritan Anti-Catholic Westminster Assembly
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2021-04-15)While historians disagree about many different aspects of the Westminster Assembly (1643–1653), the current historiography is united in seeing the gathering and its members as staunchly anti-Catholic. However, a largely ... -
The Christological Case for Compatibilism
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2021-12-03)Classical Christology entails compatibilism. In other words, that freedom and moral responsibility are compatible with determinism is a necessary consequence of the teaching about Jesus Christ found in Scripture and affirmed ... -
Wisdom As Divine Discourse: An Exegetical-Theological Study of the Book of Proverbs
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2021-11-27)While scholars typically conceive of wisdom in Proverbs as lacking in appeal to divine revelation, this dissertation argues that the book of Proverbs intends for readers to take wisdom’s instructions as a divine discourse ... -
None So Tender-Hearted: The Christological Pattern of Compassion in the Pastoral Care of John Flavel
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-04-25)This dissertation examines compassion as an integral component of John Flavel’s pastoral theology. The research explores the connection between Flavel’s Christology and pastoral care through a prism of three interconnected ... -
Epistemological Development in Pre-Ministry Undergraduates Attending Secular Universities
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Church Ministries, 2022-04-29)This qualitative study sought to replicate the previous study conducted by John David Trentham in 2012. Trentham’s study was cross-institutional in nature with a population from bible colleges, confessional Christian liberal ... -
New Exodus, New Covenant, New Creation: The Reuse of the Old Testament in Joel
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-04-28)The book of Joel has numerous parallels with other Old Testament texts, so much so that Joel has often been described as an interpreter of Scripture rather than a traditional prophet. Often, some of these parallels have ... -
Hope in Exile: A Diagnostic Tool for Assessing Redemptive Developmental Outcomes of Chapel Programming at Lee University
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2022-04-26)For over a century, Lee University has shaped the lives of students through the practice of confessional corporate worship experiences and chapel programming. This thesis has both social scientific and spiritual significance. ... -
Evaluating High School Church Curricula via the Danielson Framework for Teaching: A Quantitative Approach
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2022-04-18)The purpose of this qualitative study was to evaluate current evangelical small group or Sunday school curricula for high school students using the Danielson Framework for Teaching (FFT). The literature review revealed ... -
Eternal Covenant: The Trinitarian Shape of an Historic Baptist Doctrine
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-04-29)This dissertation argues that the eternal covenant is the prism through which God manifests his triune glory in the missions of the Son and the Spirit. Negatively, this argument is made against the background of historical ... -
Establishing a Framework for Female-Gendered Embodiment in a Redemptive Context
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-04-23)This study establishes an ontological framework for defining female-gendered embodiment, proposing a definition which is scripturally grounded and ontologically based. If a woman does not comprehend her essential purpose ... -
The New Authority of the Resurrected Jesus in the Gospels
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-04-29)Following the evangelists’ emphases in characterizing Jesus, a study of all four resurrection accounts reveals two major themes, namely, that Jesus is (1) the same person as before and (2) one with great and expanded ... -
A Theological Evaluation of Edwards’s Freedom of the Will: A Case for Continuity with the Reformed Tradition
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2022-04-29)Recent scholarship claims that the Reformed tradition was neither libertarian nor compatibilist with regard to free will and, as a consequence, Jonathan Edwards’s work, Freedom of the Will, represents a departure from the ...