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Register for the 2025 Bible Faculty Summit at BJU Seminary

May 3, 2025 By Mark Ward

Please use the button below to register for the 2025 Bible Faculty Summit, to be held at BJU Seminary from Tuesday, July 29, through Thursday, July 31, 2024.

 

Reminder: the Bible Faculty Summit paper proposal period will end in three weeks, on Friday, May 16, 2025.

 

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BFS Paper Proposal Period Closing in Three Weeks: Friday, May 16

April 25, 2025 By Mark Ward

The Bible Faculty Summit paper proposal period will end in three weeks, on Friday, May 16, 2025.

  • Remember to keep papers to 30 minutes to allow for discussion time.
  • Your paper need not be completed till 24 hours prior to your delivering it, but we do ask that you read a paper as opposed to giving a talk.
  • This year we will again have a publications committee working to help the best papers get published.
  • For the next three years (2025–2027), we plan to give preference to papers intending to fit the theme Do you intend theme, “Biblical Theology and Its Intersection with Various Disciplines (Systematic Theology, Exegesis, Rhetorical Criticism, Discourse Analysis, etc.).”

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Three Important Bible Faculty Summit Announcements

December 26, 2024 By Mark Ward

  1. The proposal period for the 2025 BFS, to be held at BJU, will open on Wednesday, January 1. Check the website for details.
  2. Cory Marsh has spearheaded a publishing initiative, in cooperation with the BFS committee, which would produce in three years a published conference volume in the Studies in Judeo-Christian Thought Monograph Series from SCS Press. The target release date is 2028. BFS attendees suggested a number of worthy topics, but the steering committee settled on a proposal offered by Dr. Paul Himes: “Biblical Theology and Its Intersection with Various Disciplines (Systematic Theology, Exegesis, Rhetorical Criticism, Discourse Analysis, etc.).” Papers submitted according to this theme will be given preference over others. We are hoping for 5–8 publishable papers each year for the next three years. We anticipate the structure of the published volume to include multiple “Parts” divided up by topic. A recent example is Douglas Moo, et al., Paul’s Letter to the Romans: Theological Essays (Hendrickson Academic, 2023) which is a compendium of ETS papers given over several years.
  3. The Bible Faculty Summit needs to change email service providers. You may receive an email from WordPress Jetpack in the next week asking you to confirm your subscription to the site. Please do so confirm if you wish to continue receiving BFS announcements.

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Monograph Topic Survey and the 2025 BFS

August 7, 2024 By Mark Ward

At the 2024 Bible Faculty Summit, we enjoyed 15 good papers, great discussion, generous hospitality at Maranatha Baptist University, and enjoyable fellowship. Several new attendees were effective participants.

Please do take the two-question monograph-topic survey that was mentioned by BFS President Mark Ward and BFS committee member Cory Marsh. Click here to do so .

Next year’s Bible Faculty Summit is planned for Tuesday–Thursday, July 29–31, 2025, at Bob Jones University in Greenville, SC.

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Register Now for the 2024 Bible Faculty Summit

May 15, 2024 By Mark Ward

Please use the button below to register for the 2024 Bible Faculty Summit, to be held at Maranatha Baptist University from Monday, July 29, through Wednesday, July 31, 2024.

(In lieu of individual proposal acceptance emails, look below to see if your name is on the list. Let Mark Ward know if you see any errors or scheduling difficulties. Andrew Goodwill [[email protected]] will be handling airport pickups.)

 
 

Monday, July 29

  • 3:00–5:00 pm – Registration
  • 5:00 pm – Dinner
  • 6:00 pm – Greetings from Mark Ward and MBU Representative
  • 6:15 pm – Cory Marsh – “Urgency in the Mundane: Present Living in Light of the Parousia Texts in 1 and 2 Thessalonians”
  • 7:05 pm – Phil Brown – “Integrity, Sin, and Saints: What does it mean to be a person of integrity who is both holy and confesses sin?”

Tuesday, July 30

  • 7:30 am – Breakfast
  • 8:15 am – Devotional: Andrew Goodwill or MBU Representative
  • 8:30 am – Mark Ward – “The Influence of Sinaiticus and Vaticanus on the Critical Text of the Gospels”
  • 9:15 am – Andrew Goodwill – “The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Prophets: the implications of Deuteronomy 18:15–22 and the Transfiguration accounts to a positive interpretation of 1 Kings 19”
  • 10:00 am – Break
  • 10:15 am – Brian Collins – “Premillennial New-Creation Millennialism: A Response to Thomas Schreiner”
  • 11:00 am – Neal Cushamn – “Isaiah’s 2-Stage Restoration of Israel”
  • 11:45 am – Group Photo
  • 12:00 pm – Lunch
  • 1:00 pm – Joseph Jo – “Romans 9:30–10:4: An Extended Proclamation of Paul’s Soteriological Justification”
  • 1:45 pm – Leroy Hill – “Science Over Scripture? The Implications of William Lane Craig’s Approach to Adam’s Historical and Theological Identity”
  • 2:30 pm – Break
  • 2:45 pm – Mark Snoeberger – “The New Creation Model and the Believer’s Eternal Expectation”
  • 3:30 pm – Glenn Kerr – “The Clean Animal Count in Genesis 7:2: A Cultural, not Primarily Exegetical, Question”
  • 4:15 pm – Break
  • 5:00 pm – Dinner
  • 6:15 pm – Joel Arnold – “1 Timothy 2:9–15: A Hermeneutical Case Study in Reshaping Texts through Cultural Background”
  • 7:00 pm – Troy Manning – “Overly Contextualized Bible Translations: The Products of Faulty Understandings of Linguistics, Translation Methodology, Exegesis, and Theology”

Wednesday, July 31

  • 7:30 am – Breakfast
  • 8:30 am – Devotional and BFS Comments: Mark Ward
  • 8:45 am – Matt Shrader – “‘A Ministry of Enlarged Culture’: The First American Baptist Seminaries, 1811–1850”
  • 9:30 am – Bruce  Meyer – “Shattered By Betrayal: Using Psalm 35 as a Paradigm for Counseling a Survivor of Abuse”
  • 10:15 am – Break
  • 10:30 am – Stephen Winiarski – “Tell it to the ἐκκλησίᾳ: Evaluating Church Discipline through the Lens of Socio-Cultural Interpretation”
  • 11:15 am – David Potter – “Mihaly Kornya: Peasant Prophet, Transylvanian Baptist Hero”
  • 12:00 pm – Lunch and dismissal

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Steering Committee

Mark Ward, President
Independent Scholar

Phil Brown
God’s Bible School and College

Andrew Goodwill
Maranatha Baptist University

Cory Marsh
Southern California Seminary

Kevin Oberlin
Bob Jones University

Ken Rathbun
Faith Baptist Bible College

Brett Williams
Central Baptist Theological Seminary

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