Ph.D. Dissertations:
Presented to the Faculty of Southeastern Baptist Theological
Seminaryat Wake Forest, North Carolina (1998-2008)
1998
Objectivity in hermeneutics : a study of the nature and of the role of presuppositions in evangelical hermeneutical methodology and their impact on the possibility of objectivity in biblical interpretation by Thomas A. Howe
1999______________________________________________________________
Towards an epistemology of faith: a critical analysis of the subjective relation to the Object of Faith in the thought of Søren Kierkegaard and Rudolf Bultmann by William C. Suttles
Pastoral evangelism : a model for effective evangelism as demonstrated by the ministries of John Albert Broadus, Alfred Elijah Dickinson, and John William Jones in the revival of the Army of Northern Virginia in 1863 by William Earl Brown
Hermeneutical bridges and homiletical methods: a comparative analysis of the new homiletic and expository preaching theory 1970-1995 by Mark A. Howell
2000
Evangelistic motifs in the Book of Revelation : a critical analysis of the Book of Revelation with regard to its various evangelistic motifs by Thomas Michael
A critical analysis of contemporary 'greater-good' theodicies with special attention given to gratuitous evil by Bruce A. Little
The challenge posed by autonomy in medical ethics by James Alan Branch
An examination of the influence of Vatican II on Clark Pinnock's "wider hope" for the unevangelized by Kenneth Donald Keathley
An assessment and critique of the distinctive christology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) by Cky J. Carrigan
2001
In Spirit and Truth: The Holy Spirit and the Interrelation of Doxology and Doctrine with Implications for Evangelical Congregational Worship by David P. Nelson
North American Evangelical Feminism and the Triune God: A Denial of Trinitarian Relational Order in the Works of Selected Theologians and an Alternative Proposal by Peter R. Schemm, Jr.
An inquiry into the possible impact of current scientific research in human genetics on the Augustinian doctrine of original sin by Charles E. Warren
An analysis of disjunctive waw verbal clauses in the biblical Hebrew narrative of the Pentateuch by Raymond Bouchoc
The centrality of the doctrine of human free will in the theology of Balthasar Hubmaier by Michael W. McDill
A study of the interface of prayer and evangelism as they relate to the theme of mission in the Acts of the Apostles by James C. Schofield
A rhetorical analysis of the preaching of Rodney "Gipsy" Smith, with reference to indications of primary orality in the sermons of the 1907 Brooklyn, New York, campaign by William J. Curtis
2002
The covenantal nature of marriage in the order of creation in Genesis 1 and 2 by John K. Tarwater
A critical evaluation of the developments in the doctrine of original sin as taught at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary by David Aaron Depp
Reforming the Morality of Usury: A Study of Differences that Separated the Protestant Reformers by David W. Jones
Theological Indicators Supporting and Evangelical Conception of Eternity: A study of God’s Relation to Time in light of the Doctrine of Creation Ex Nihilo by Steven W. Ladd
African American Preaching and the Shaping of Ethnic Identity in the Separate but Equal Era, 1890-1940: An Investigation Based on the Preaching of Elias Camp Morris, William Jacob Walls, and Reverdy Cassius Ransom by Derry Adelso Hodge
The Unity of the Farewell Discourse: The Literary Integrity of John 13:31-16:33 by L. Scott Kellum
The Christology of Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher (1796-1868): A Theological Analysis of His Contribution to English Evangelical Literature by Mark David Walton
2003
The Relationship Between Theology and Spirituality in the Writings of Alister E. McGrath by Larry S. McDonald
A Critical Analysis of the Criswell College’s Effect on The Southern Baptist Convention, 1980-2000 by Michael M. Soud
Calendar and Theology: An Investigation into a Mutable Calendric System in the Fourth Gospel by Charles John Busada
God the Father in the Fourth Gospel: A Biblical Patrology by Matthew C. Fisher
Theosis and Muslim Evangelism: How the Recovery of a Patristic Understanding of Salvation Can Aid Evangelical Missionaries in the Evangelization of Islamic Peoples by James D. Greear
Wittgenstein’s Impact on Anglo-American Theology: Representative Models of Response to Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Later Writings by Bruce Riley Ashford
Gerhard Westerburg: His Life and Doctrine of Purgatory and the Lord’s Supper by Russell S. Woodbridge
2004
No More Walls! The Nonobligatory Ordinances Contained in the Law and the Creation of One New Man in Christ: Ephesians 2:11-22 by James B. Joseph
An Analysis of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s Missiological Paradigm by Lester David Mills
A Comparative Analysis of Factors Affecting Southern Baptist Church Planting Grids in the East Asia, Middle America, and Eastern Africa Regions by Jon E. Smith
The Church as a Replacement of Israel: An Analysis of Supersessionism by Michael J. Vlach
Muslim Conversion to Christ: An Investigation of Palestinian Converts living in the Holy Land by Anthony B. Greeham
2005
James Madison Pendleton and His Contributions to Baptist Theology by Thomas White
A Comparison of Irenaeus' and Athanasius' Respective Descriptions of Deification in Relation to Adolf Harnack's History of Dogma by Daniel Wilson
Imagination as Handmaiden to Theology: An Evangelical Appraisal of the Role of Imagination in Theological Methodology by Mark Leeds
The Unity of God as Understood by Four Twentieth-Century Trinitarian Theologians: Karl Rahner, Millard Erickson, John Zizioulas, and Wolfhart Pannenberg by Michael Chiavone
Robert Boyte Crawford Howell's Contribution to Baptist Ecclesiology: Nineteenth-Century Baptist Ecclesiology in Controversy by James Hilton
A Biblical and Theological Analysis of Tithing: Toward a Theology of Giving in the New Covenant Era by David Croteau
An Analysis of a Compositional Approach to Biblical Narrative (Genesis 37) by Randy Mckinion
An Analysis of the Intertextuality between Exod 32:7–20 and Deut 9:12–21 by Tracy Joel McKenzie
The Paul-Apollos Relationship and Paul’s Stance Toward Greco-roman Rhetoric: An Exegetical and Socio-Historical Study of 1 Corinthians 1–4 by Corin Mihaila
Athanasius' Trinitarian Theology & His Reading of Scripture: Matthew 28:19 as the Hypothesis of the Christian Faith in His Letters to Serapion Concerning the Holy Spirit by John Nixon
Eutyches: Follower of Cyril or Heretic? by Robert Olsen
An Evangelical Appraisal of Archaeological Models used in Palestine from 1970: Retrospects and Prospects of the Field Since the Contributions of W. F. Albright by Chet Roden
The Verbal System of Biblical Aramaic: A Distributional Approach by Michael Shepherd
An Analysis of Word Equivalencies Between the Books of Kings and the Books of Chronicles by Joshua Williams
2007
The Church and Culture: An Examination of the Theological Responses to Culture as Seen in the Writings of James P. Boyce, John A. Broadus, Edgar Young Mullins, and R. Albert Mohler, Jr. by Shane Arnold
The Prophetic Lawsuit in the Book of Revelation: An Analysis of the Lawsuit Motif in Revelation with Reference to the Use of the Old Testament by Alan Bandy
Andrew Fuller (1754-1815): Model Baptist Pastor-Theologian by Paul Brewster
Self-Examination as Preparation for the Lord's Supper in Light of the New Covenant by Keith Church
The Development of Baptist-Fundamentalism in the South, 1940-1980 by Nathan Finn
Looking for the Least: An Analysis and Evaluation of Interpretive Issues which have Influenced the Interpretation of Matthew's Judgment of the Sheep and Goats (Matthew 25:31-46) by Gaylen Leverett
The Book of Ecclesiastes as a Derash of Genesis 1-4: A Study in Old Testament Literary Dependency by Bernard Maurer
An Evangelical Analysis of the Critical Realism and Corollary Hermeneutics of Bernard Lonergan with Application for Evangelical Hermeneutics by Raymond Meyer
The Doctrine of Sanctification with Respect to its Role in Eternal Salvation by Wil Owens
Hermeneutics and Homiletics: A Case for the Necessity and Nature of Contextual-Theological Application in the Expository Sermon by Robert Pace
Abraham in the Canonical Hebrew Bible: A study of the Abrahamic Narrative of Genesis with a View Toward the Reading of that Text by the Later Canonical Authors by Gennady Pshenichny
Jonathan Edwards on Worship: Public and Private Devotion to God by Ted Rivera
2008
A Rhetorical Criticism of G. Campbell Morgan's Use of Metaphor in his Sermons During his First Tenure at Westminster Chapel (1904-1917) with Applications for Contemporary Preaching by Benjamin Brammer
An Examination of Prayer in the Johannine Literature by Michael Bryant
Church Architecture and Baptist Missions in Transylvania 1871-1918 by Ovidiu Bulzan
Science as the Ancilla Theologiae: A Critical Assessment of Alister E. McGrath's Scientific Theology from an Evangelical Philosophical/Theological Perspective by James Dew
Images in the Service of God's Word: A Theology for the Christian Use of Visual Images by Jason Hiles
Perichoretic Ethics: A Biblical-Theological and Historical-Theological Analysis of the Necessity of Perichoretic Relationship for Christian Ethics by R. Matthew Lytle
The Rule of the Community as a Valid Linguistic Resource for Understanding Truth Terminology in the Gospel of John: A Semantic Analysis by Elizabeth Mburu
An Assessment of the Distinctive Soteriology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) from the Perspective of Selected Evangelical Theologians by Henry Middleton
Joseph's Righteousness and the Matthean Exception Clauses: An Analysis of the Relationship between Matt 1:19, 5:32, and 19:9 by Robert Olender
An Inquiry into the Determinative Growth Factors at the First Baptist Chruch, Dallas, Texas under the Leadership of W. A. Criswell, 1944-1991 by Kenneth Todd Stewart
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