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Showing 1 to 20 of 1228 for “"Southern Baptist"”.
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Southern Baptist Journalism
Th. D., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1914
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Dependent Independence: Toward a Theology of Southern Baptist Associationalism
… survey of connectionalism within American Baptist thought, using the Philadelphia Baptist Association as a case study. It will argue that twenty-first century Baptists ought to recapture their heritage and confess congregational independence while they embrace a meaningful dependence upon …
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The Southern Baptist Convention and civil rights, 1954-1995
… 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 the advancement of racial justice within the Southern Baptist Convention. Yet rank-and-file Southern …
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Volatile congregations : crisis sensemaking in a Southern Baptist Church
… demonstrating how communication within the Unity Baptist Church (UBC) congregation spoke the crisis into existence (Weick, 1995). Rich description of conversations in which UBC members made sense of the crisis exemplified how communication is the essence of sense because sensemaking is an “issue …
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Thoroughly furnished, Southern Baptist alternatives in the education of ministers
The purpose of this study was to ascertain what Southern Baptists are doing in alternative programs of ministerial education for ministers who will not attend a theological seminary. Fifty-three percent of all Southern Baptist ministers will not attend a seminary.This study consisted of two phases. …
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Women's Perceptions of Leadership Roles within a Southern Baptist Congregation
… biblical scriptures are used to justify the Southern Baptist Convention's position on leadership, including female ordination. The author uses interviews to examine how women within a Southern Baptist congregation in Southeast Georgia assign meaning to leadership roles and understand …
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Journalism in the curriculum of Southern Baptist colleges and universities.
… thirty colleges and universities operated by the Southern Baptists. It includes a listing of the earliest courses in journalism offered in the various institutions and outlines the colleges which now give majors or minors in the subject as well as those still including journalism courses in the …
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Examining the Ecclesiological Soundness of the Southern Baptist Multisite Church Movement
… EXAMINING THE ECCLESIOLOGICAL SOUNDNESS OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST MULTISITE CHURCH MOVEMENT Dennis Kyle Sullivan, PhD The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2019 Chair: Dr. Timothy K. Beougher This dissertation evaluates the ecclesiological soundness of the multisite church movement (MCM). A …
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Influence of Emotional Intelligence on Tenure of Southern Baptist Senior Pastors
… on the tenure of senior pastors in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). The aim of the study was to seek evidence from the lived experiences of senior pastors with five or more consecutive years of service to determine if high emotional intelligence has been a factor in their …
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A Missiological Evaluation of Southern Baptist Multiethnic Churches in the United States
The thesis of this dissertation is that Southern Baptist multiethnic churches exemplify the mission of the church as revealed in the Scriptures and offer a valuable strategy for reaching the increasingly diverse population of the United States. Chapter 1 introduces the ethnic segregation of …
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The Role of Unpaid Elders in Southern Baptist Churches: A Mixed Methods Study
… discover the roles fulfilled by unpaid elders in Southern Baptist churches. This project involved two phases. Phase 1 utilized a forty-five question survey which asked about duties of unpaid elders, competencies of unpaid elders, and barriers to decision making among elder teams. Phase 2 involved …
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A leader behavior profile analysis of senior pastors in growing Southern Baptist churches
… characteristics of senior pastors in growing Southern Baptist churches. The analysis was done by comparing and contrasting the self-perceived leader behavior characteristics of the senior pastors with leader behavior characteristics as perceived by the paid ministerial support staff. The …
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“All the Land Thrown Open:” Southern Culture and Southern Baptist Chaplains: 1861-1865
Southern Baptist chaplains informed Confederate culture and religious belief during the American Civil War by contributing to a unique narrative of Southern identity. One sees the narrative through the letters and sermons of these chaplains to the working- class soldiery. Encompassed in Southern …
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An Analysis of Attitudes and Practices of Southern Baptist Pastors Toward Premarital Education
… was to analyze the attitudes and practices of Southern Baptist pastors in four Midwestern states toward premarital education. The researcher utilized a multi-stage sampling procedure to randomly select 1070 churches in Missouri, Tennessee, Illinois, and Kentucky. A research tool was created to …
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The impact of institutional core values on traditional students at a Southern Baptist college
… impacted by the institutional core values at a Southern Baptist college. The subjects of mission statements, core values, and college impact were defined. Special attention was given to the eight institutional core values being examined in this study. The current study was conducted at …
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A 360-degree analysis of the leadership styles of Southern Baptist ministers of youth
… 360-degree analysis of the leadership styles of Southern Baptist ministers of youth. Many experts in the field of youth ministry agree that there is a current crisis in this field. Though many possible causes and combinations of causes have been suggested, the common thread linking all of these …
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The Role of the Unpaid Elder in Southern Baptist Churches: A Mixed Methods Study
… literature for the role of unpaid elders in Southern Baptist churches, there is little empirical research that describes the roles that unpaid elders are assuming in their congregations. The purpose of this explanatory sequential, mixed-method study was to understand the role of the unpaid …
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The Competent Church Planting Pastor in Southern Baptist Convention Churches: A Mixed Method Study
… and growing emphasis on church planting in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). Simultaneously, church membership, attendance, and baptism are on the decline. The increase in church planting and the need for church revitalization have become the focus of much of SBC life. A sizable amount of …
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