2021 Papers
Tuesday, July 27
- 3 – 5 pm – Registration
- 5:00 pm – Dinner
- 6:00 pm – Greetings from Mark Ward and Ken Rathbun
- 6:15 pm – Scott Aniol • “Biblical Ordinances and Visible Signs: How Baptists Weakened Biblical Authority by Limiting Ordinances to Two”
- 7:05 pm – Ryan Martin • “‘Everyone Has Had a Philosophy of His Own’: The Tension Between Faculty Psychology and The Unitive Self in Jonathan Edwards’ Psychology”
Wednesday, July 28
- 7:30 am – Breakfast
- 8:15 am – Devotional by Keith Kobelia
- 8:45 am – Brian Collins • “Four Common Approaches to the Olivet Discourse”
- 9:30 am – Paul Himes • “Lectio difficilior potior and an Aramaic Pun: Beor vs. Bosor in 2 Peter 2:15 as a Test Case for How a Classic Rule Might Work“
- 10:15 am – Break
- 10:45 am – Andrew Goodwill • “Blessing and Curse: the Significance of Contrapuntal Structure to the Message and Exposition of 2 Kings 3:1–8:6”
- 11:30 am – Group Photo
- 12:00 pm – Lunch
- 1:00 pm – Tim Miller • “A Review of The Making of Biblical Womanhood by Beth Allison Barr”
- 1:45 pm – Break
- 2:15 pm – Jared Garcia • “Is David Overreacting? An Analysis of Ancient Near East Hospitality Code in 1 Samuel 25”
- 3:15 pm – Ryan Meyer • “‘This Generation’ in Matthew 24:34”
- 4:15 pm – Break
- 4:45 pm – Dinner
- 6:15 pm – Matt Shrader • “Theism, Atonement, and the State of Northern Baptist Theology in the Late Nineteenth Century: The Curious Interactions of Augustus Hopkins Strong and Alvah Hovey”
- 7:00 pm – Joel Arnold • “Is Historical-Cultural Background Critical for Interpretation?”
Thursday, July 29
- 7:30 am – Breakfast
- 8:30 am – Devotional and BFS Comments: Mark Ward
- 8:45 am – Keith Kobelia • “Romans 7 and the Self-Reliant Believer” (Chapter in Festschrift for Myron Houghton)
- 9:30 am – Jon Pratt • “Protestant Antinomianism”
- 10:15 am — Break
- 10:30 am – Tim Little • “Lady Wisdom”
- 11:15 am – Break and Lunch