Browsing Dissertations, Theses, and Projects by Title
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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 Sinner's Prayer: An Historic and Theological Analysis
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2001)This dissertation is an historical and theological analysis of the Sinner's Prayer. Chapter 1 introduces the topic, provides an example of the Sinner's Prayer, and proposes the importance of this study. The methodology and ... -
Slavery, women, and the gender debate
(2009-10-20)This dissertation examines the exegetical and hermeneutical questions related to the issues of slavery and women in the New Testament. In response to a redemptive movement hermeneutic (or trajectory hermeneutic), I seek ... -
Social ecological factors in shaping the attitudes and responses of ministers' children toward full-time Christian ministry
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2004-05-01)This dissertation examines the social ecological factors in shaping the attitudes and responses of ministers' children (PKs) toward full-time Christian ministry. Data emerging from the descriptive qualitative research ... -
A sociological study of the relationship between religious violence and economic globalization
(2004-12-02)This dissertation sociologically examines the relationship between religious violence and economic globalization. Chapter 2 begins with an analysis of the theories of religious violence in general. This chapter presents ... -
The Son and the Spirit: The Promise of Spirit Christology in Traditional Trinitarian and Christological Perspective
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2017-05-31)This dissertation evaluates various contemporary Spirit-Christology proposals. Herein, Spirit Christology is defined as an approach to Christology that affords paradigmatic prominence to the Holy Spirit for understanding ... -
A soteriological analysis of evangelism training programs of the Home Mission Board and the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention
(2009-05-15)Chapter 1 introduces the project, research problem, purpose, and methodologies. It includes an introduction to selected evangelism training programs produced by the Home and North American Mission Boards of the Southern ... -
The Southern Baptist Convention and civil rights, 1954-1995
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2009-03-24)Conservative theology was consistent with the advance of racial justice in the Southern Baptist Convention during the second half of the twentieth century. Historians have downplayed the role of conservative theology in ... -
Southern Baptist Convention Missions in Canada: An Indigenous Missiology for a Convention in a Near-Culture Country
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2019-12-02)This dissertation demonstrates that a more thoroughly indigenized Canadian National Baptist Convention (CNBC) will have a greater impact on lostness throughout Canada by providing an effective denominational structure ready ... -
Southern Baptist Journalism
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Speaking on the brink of sheol: Form and theology of Old Testament death stories
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2007-10-12)This dissertation argues that a definable and distinct genre of death story does exist in the Old Testament and that form critical analyses of these stories can yield significant theological insights. Chapter 1 establishes ... -
Speech Ethics in the Hebrew Psalter
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2012-12-14)SPEECH ETHICS IN THE HEBREW PSALTER Samuel Onchonga Asuma, Ph.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2012 Chairperson: Duane A. Garrett This dissertation examines the use of speech terminology in the Hebrew ... -
The Spirit of Sonship in the Johannine Corpus
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2018-01-02)The high Christology and unique pneumatology of John’s gospel has often eclipsed the apostle’s teaching on the relationship of the believer to Christ and the Father through the Spirit in Johannine studies. This dissertation ... -
De Spiritu Sancto: Novatian of Rome’s Pneumatology in De Trinitate
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2017-02-24)ABSTRACT DE SPIRITU SANCTO: NOVATIAN OF ROME’S PNEUMATOLOGY IN DE TRINITATE JohnMark Bennett Beazley, Ph.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2016 Chair: Dr. Michael A. G. Haykin This dissertation evaluates ... -
The Spirituality of William Ward
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2019-05-15)This dissertation answers the following primary research question: to what degree and to what extent did Ward’s spirituality promote peace within the Serampore Trio and preserve the Mission as a whole? In answering this ... -
The Spoken Word: God, Scripture, and Orality in Missions
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2014-05-16)This dissertation contends that the "Orality Movement" in missionary circles has a dearth of theological development and is therefore susceptible to doctrinal error leading to ministry practices that are potentially harmful ... -
A strategy for church-based leadership training in Romania
(2007-05-17)Chapter I introduces the situation of leadership training in the communist and post-communist Romanian contexts. Important highlights of the evolution of Baptist leadership training are presented. A concise discussion of ... -
A Strategy for Sending Missionaries from the Village Church in Dallas-Ft.Worth
(2016-10-27)The Village Church (TVC) in Dallas-Ft.Worth is a multi-site megachurch that exists to glorify God by making disciples, and while the church has multiplied missionaries in this way over the years, there has been no comprehensive ... -
A Strategy to Improve the Use of Illustrations in Expository Preaching at First Baptist Church, Broomfield, Colorado.
(2012-05-23)This Doctor of Ministry project examines the biblical and practical rationale for the use of illustrations in expository preaching. Chapter 1 gives an introduction to the topic and gives the ministry context for which the ... -
A Strategy to Strengthen African American Families at the Faith Tabernacle Baptist Church, Chicago, Illinois
(2012-02-03)The purpose of this research project was that of developing a strategy to serve as a model for strengthening families of the Faith Tabernacle Baptist Church, an African American church on the city of Chicago's Southeast ...