The schedule for the 2019 Bible Faculty Summit is below. Please submit papers to info [at] biblefacultysummit [dot] org at your earliest opportunity. Word, PDF, OneDrive, and Google Docs are all acceptable formats. Papers will be posted on a password-protected page on the BFS website.
Remember: several participants have asked that we keep to a stricter schedule this year, in order to give everyone a chance to receive feedback on their papers. Most slots are 45 minutes, so the BFS committee suggests a paper length of approximately 3,600–4,300 words. That should leave 10–15 minutes for discussion after each paper. A timekeeper will hold up a card in the back of the room to indicate when a presenter has five minutes remaining.
Tuesday, August 6
- 3–5 pm – Registration
- 5:00 pm – Dinner
- 6:00 pm – Greetings from Mark Ward and David Shumate
- 6:15 pm – Michael Riley
Stroud’s Critique of the Van Tilian Apologetic - 7:05 pm – Kevin Bauder
The Shaking of San Francisco Baptist Seminary During the Early 1970s
Wednesday, August 7
- Breakfast – 7:45 am
- 8:15 am – Devotional planned by David Shumate
- 8:30 am – Christopher Cone
Addressing LGBTQ: A Biblical Teleological Argument for Identity, Gender and Sexuality - 9:15 am – Tim Miller
To Preach or Not to Preach: Text-Criticism and the Pulpit. - 10:00 am – Break
- 10:15 am – Jon Pratt
The Free Grace Movement and Perseverance - 11:00 am – Matthew Walker
A New Way Forward in Spiritual Warfare: Replacing the Four Commonly Held Views with a New Paradigm - 11:45 am – Group photo
- 12:00 pm – Lunch
- 1:00 pm – Paul Himes
Did Jesus Quote the Apostolic Council? The Possible Intertextuality of Revelation 2:24 and Its Ramifications for Translation Style - 2:00 pm – Break
- 2:15 pm – Cory Marsh
The Rapture: Cosmic Segregation or Antidote for Oppression? A Critical Response to the ‘Racial Ideology of Rapture’ by Nathaniel P. Grimes - 3:15 pm – Joseph Jo
The Function and Limit of Extra-biblical Historical-Cultural Background Research in Biblical Interpretation: A Case Study on the New Perspective on Paul - 4:15 pm – Break
- 4:45 pm – Dinner
- 6:15 pm – Matt Shrader
New England Baptist Alvah Hovey (1820-1903): Another Chapter in Baptist Edwardsianism - 7:00 pm – Brian Collins
Genesis 1:26-28: Its Significance in Genesis and Biblical Theology
Thursday, August 8
- Breakfast – 7:45 am
- 8:15 am – Devotional and BFS Comments: Mark Ward
- 8:30 am – Tom Parr
Puritan Exegesis for the Covenant of Redemption - 9:15 am – Mark Ward
“Kept Pure in All Ages”: A Counterargument to the Textual Critical Views of Confessional Bibliology - 10:00 am — Break
- 10:15 am – Mark Bruffey
Animal Sacrifices in the Millennium - 11:00 am – Jeff Straub
An Analysis of Current Controversies in the Southern Baptist Convention - 11:45 am – Lunch