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

BFS 2019 is a month away, and our hosts at International Baptist College and Seminary need to make sure they have an accurate head count. So please do register below if you have not done so already.

(If you’re not certain if you’ve registered, please contact Mark Ward at info@biblefacultysummit.org. Also, Becky Stertzbach of IBCS may contact you for additional details.)

Note: 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 reminder: the Bible Faculty Summit has issued a formal call for papers for the 2019 Summit. The paper proposal period ends Tuesday, April 30, 2019. The committee has received a number of proposals already, but more are welcome.

Note: the BFS committee has put together a new series of Paper Proposal Guidelines which are available here.

A few other notes:

• The Summit committee has not established a theme: we want to hear what you are working on.
• Your paper need not be completed till 24 hours prior to your delivering it on Aug 6–Aug 8, at International Baptist College and Seminary in Chandler, AZ.
• This year we will again have a publications committee working to help the best papers get published.

If you have a paper proposal which might lend itself well to a response from another participant, please contact Mark Ward.