The surprising story of how George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson came to despair for the future of the nation they had createdAmericans seldom deify their Founding Fathers any longer, but they do still tend to venerate the Constitution and the …
This dissertation examines and evaluates the preaching and pastoral ministry of Charles Jerry Vines as a model of evangelistic focus. Chapter 1 introduces the preaching and pastoral ministry of Jerry Vines as a model of evangelistic focus. The author addresses the broad concern …
This thesis analyses the legal status and the importance of short titles in the legislative processes of the Westminster Parliament, the Scottish Parliament, and the US Congress. Through a large quantitative survey of US short titles that spanned over 30 years and 18 Congresses,…
This project attempts to train and prepare members of The Salvation Army of Lancaster, Pennsylvania to be Christian apologists. Chapter 1 outlines the history and ministry context of The Salvation Army along with the goals of the project. Chapter 2 presents the biblical and theo…
The purpose of this dissertation was to develop a strategy of evangelism to address a culture of the twenty-first century that is influenced by worldviews such as intersectionality. The worldview of intersectionality was used as a case study to understand the challenges the chur…
This project seeks to equip the members of Victory Baptist Church in Shelbyville, Kentucky to faithfully share the gospel and follow the biblical pattern set forth in Acts 1:8. Chapter 1 presents the ministry context of Victory and the goals of this project. Chapter 2 exegetes A…
This dissertation seeks to answer the question of whether the Byzantine (Byz) text type has a significant role to play for improving the text of the Acts of the Apostles as found in standard editions of the Greek New Testament (GNT) by means of textual criticism (TC). If evidenc…
The purpose of this dissertation is to develop a model that can explain and thereby generally predict the most likely government responses to civil unrest in the Roman Empire and to apply that model to the study of selected NT texts. The guiding question of the research is, What…
Through academic research and with input from ministry experts, the project director established biblical and practical foundations for an intentional assessment for church revitalization. First, he demonstrated from Prov 27:1, 12, and 23–24 that church leaders and their churche…
Preachers encounter numerous hermeneutical challenges when attempting to preach from the book of Acts. In an attempt to assist preachers, the project produces a book manuscript with a series of interpretive guidelines and homiletic suggestions when preaching from Acts. A biblica…
This dissertation investigates the relationship between the Holy Spirit, ethnic identity and the ‘other’ in Luke-Acts. I argue that the Spirit is the central figure in the formation of a new social identity that affirms, yet chastens and transcends ethnic identity. The investiga…
The history of the exegesis of the pericope, Acts of the Apostles 4:23-31, reveals that the complete structure of the pericope has eluded scholars. Nevertheless, this structure is significant. It is a chiasm, whose center is a quotation of Ps 2:1-2 and its application to Jesus a…
This dissertation examines the roles of Stephen, Philip, and Barnabas in the book of Acts from a narrative-critical perspective. Two goals are accomplished. First, the study adds to a recent and growing field of inquiry that examines narratives according to a method sensitive to…
