Registration is now open for the Bible Faculty Summit, to be held August 1–3, 2017 at Appalachian Bible College in Mount Hope, WV. The first paper will be presented Tuesday evening, August 1 after supper at the college; the Summit will end with a lunch on Thursday, August 3.

Paper proposals are still being accepted. Proposals must be submitted by June 15 to be considered for inclusion. An announcement will be made shortly thereafter listing the papers that have been approved for presentation by the BFS committee.

REGISTER FOR THE CONFERENCE

SUBMIT A PAPER PROPOSAL

The Bible Faculty Summit is issuing a call for papers for 2017. The meeting will be held at Appalachian Bible College in the Charleston-Beckley area of West Virginia, Tuesday, August 1st to Thursday, August 3rd.

In honor of the quincentenary of the launch of the Protestant Reformation, the theme for the Summit is Reformation Then and Now. Papers on the theme will be given more discussion time.

CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT A PAPER PROPOSAL

ABC will be providing dormitory space to BFS attendees; meals will also be served in the campus dining hall from Tuesday supper through Thursday breakfast. PhD and ThM students are welcome in dorm housing but must cover their own meals. Spouses may stay in a room in the lodge for $25 per night (plus meal costs).

We also want to extend an invitation to any pastors with earned academic doctorates who may wish to participate.

Mark L. Ward, Jr, PhD
Bible Faculty Summit

Save the date: the 2017 Bible Faculty Summit will be held at Appalachian Bible College in the Charleston-Beckley area of West Virginia, Tuesday, August 1st to Thursday, August 3rd.

Theme and call for papers will be announced in the next few weeks.

• Presenters, please send papers to [email protected] at some point prior to your presentation. Papers will be posted to a password-protected page on the website.
• All sessions will meet in the Dining Commons main floor, Classroom 202

Tuesday Evening

• 3 – 5 pm – Registration – Dining Commons
• 4:45 pm – Dinner – Dining Commons
• 6:00 pm – Troy Manning – Bibles International Translation Philosophy

Wednesday Morning

• Breakfast – 7:45 am – Dining Commons
• 8:15 am – Devotional – Preston Mayes
• 8:30 am – Jon Cheek (PhD student at BJU) – Jesus’ Interaction with the World
• 9:30 am – Mark Ward – The Story of Ἀρσενοκοίτης According to BDAG
• 10:30 am – Bruce Compton – The Design and Extent of Christ’s Atonement
• 11:30 am – Lunch – Dining Commons

Wednesday Afternoon

• 1:00 pm – John Wivell – The Status of Marriage in the Resurrection
• 2:15 pm – Paul Himes – Words, Concepts, and Semantic Range: Rethinking “Foreknowledge” in the New Testament.
• 3:30 pm – Ryan Martin – Human Affections in Pre-Modern Thought

Wednesday Evening

• 4:45 pm – Dinner – Dining Commons
• 6:00 pm – Brian Collins – Review and response to the view of “land” and land promises proposed by Progressive Covenantalists such as Stephen Wellum and Oren Martin
• 7:30 pm – Greg Stiekes – Natural Theology and Truth

Thursday Morning

• Breakfast – 7:45 am
• 8:15 am – Devotional – Andy Hudson
• 8:30 am – Brian Hand – The Prayer of Faith
• 9:30 am – Alan Patterson – A Theology of Persecution
• 10:30 am – Randy Leedy – Remarriage
• 11:30 am – Lunch – Dining Commons