2019 Papers

Tuesday, August 6

3–5 pm – Registration
5:00 pm – Dinner
6:00 pm – Greetings from Mark Ward, David Shumate, and Jeff Straub
6:15 pm – Michael Riley
“Clarification on the Nature of Van Til’s Transcendental Argument”
7:05 pm – Kevin Bauder
“The Shaking of San Francisco Baptist Theological Seminary”

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 Cite the Apostolic Council? The Possible Intertextuality of Revelation 2:24 and Its Ramifications for Translation Style”
2:00 pm – Cory Marsh
“The Rapture: Cosmic Segregation or Antidote for Oppression? A Critical Response to the ‘Racial Ideology of Rapture’ by Nathaniel P. Grimes”
2:45 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”
3:30 pm – Eric Newton
“Sound Words: Evaluating a Postconservative Proposal by the Apostolic Standard”
4:45 pm – Dinner
5:45 pm – Matt Shrader
“New England Baptist Alvah Hovey (1820-1903): Another Chapter in Baptist Edwardsianism”
6:30 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 Supporting the Covenant of Redemption”
9:15 am – Mark Ward
“’Kept Pure in All Ages’: A Counterargument to the Textual Critical Views of Confessional Bibliology” (UNPUBLISHED DRAFT)
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