The Bible Faculty Summit for 2018 is complete. Many thanks to Bob Jones University for their generous hospitality—and the papers delivered by their gifted faculty.

Pencil in Tuesday, July 30 through Thursday, August 1, for the 2019 Summit.

Schedule

Bob Jones University is looking forward to hosting the Bible Faculty Summit. As you arrive on Tuesday, July 31, please check in at the Welcome Center (located just east of the fountain at the front of campus) between 3 and 5 P.M. Dinner will be served at 5:15 P.M. in the Mack Library Periodicals Room (note the new location), and the conference will begin right after dinner in Seminary 113 (another room change). When you check in, you will receive a printed schedule with updated locations.

If you need anything, please feel free to talk to the Welcome Center staff or call Brendon Johnson, Administrative Assistant to the Associate Dean of the School of Religion (office: 864.241.1656; mobile: 864.385.9432).

Papers

Presenters, please send your papers as soon as possible to Mark Ward ([email protected]). Papers can be sent at the last minute before you present, but it would be best if they came in a bit earlier. Your papers will be placed on a password-protected page on the website for attendees to download. Many will follow along on their computers as you read.

Presenters, please send your papers to Mark Ward at [email protected] at some point prior to your presentation. Papers will be posted to a password-protected page where attendees can access them.

All sessions will be held in in the main Seminary lecture hall on the first floor (Sem 113).

Tuesday, July 31

• 3 – 5 pm – Registration
• 5:00 pm – Dinner (Mack Library Periodicals Room)
• 6:00 pm – Greetings from BFS Committee Head Mark Ward and BJU School of Religion Associate Dean Kevin Oberlin
• 6:15 pm – TED MILLER
  Idolatry and the Church: Towards an Old Paradigm for Describing How Christians Relate to a Pagan Culture
• 7:05 pm – GREG STIEKES
  No Peace without Victory: J. Gresham Machen’s Uncalvinistic Epistemology in Christianity and Liberalism and Its Implications for a Conservative Biblical Hermeneutic

Wednesday, Aug 1

• Breakfast – 7:45 am (Seminary Rotunda, 2nd floor)
• 8:15 am – Devotional
• 8:30 am – CHRISTOPHER CONE
  The Sufficiency of Scripture and the Role of Extra-Biblical Resources in Transformational Learning
• 9:15 am – RYAN MARTIN
  Jonathan Edwards’s Early Psychology
• 10:00 – Group Photo
• 10:15 am – PHIL BROWN
  A Biblical-Theological Critical Review of Sanctification by Michael Allen
• 11:00 am – ANDREW MINNICK
  Sonship and Resurrection
• 11:45 am – Lunchtime Discussion about Future of BFS (Mack Library Periodicals Room)
• 1:00 pm – (Split track)
  • LAYTON TALBERT
    Interpreting the New Covenant in Light of Its Multiplexity, Multitextuality, and Ethnospecificity
    
  • LANGUAGE TRACK 1 (Sem 214): JOEY MCCOLLUM
    The Solid Rock Greek New Testament: Theory and Practice
• 2:00 pm – Break
• 2:15 pm – (Split track)
  • MARK SIDWELL
    The Riddle of Seventh-day Adventism
  • LANGUAGE TRACK 2 (Sem 214): TIMOTHY HUGHES
    Fallacy of the Excluded Middle: Reassessing the Category of “Deponency” to Reclaim the Middle Voice in NT Greek
• 3:15 pm – (Split track)
  • RICHARD WINSTON
    The Law in Galatians 5:13–26
  • LANGUAGE TRACK 3 (Sem 214): TROY MANNING
    What Languages Did Jesus Speak?
• 4:15 pm – Break
• 4:45 pm – Dinner (Mack Library Periodicals Room)
• 6:15 pm – PAUL HIMES
  Grafting in the Original Branches: Rethinking the Position of a Pre-Tribulational Rapture in Light of a Dispensational Theology of Israel
• 7:00 pm – SCOTT ANIOL
  “That They May Be One”: Conservatism, Cooperation, and the Center of Christian Unity

Thursday, Aug 2

• Breakfast – 7:45 am (Seminary Rotunda, 2nd floor)
• 8:15 am – Devotional
• 8:30 am – JEFF STRAUB
  Thomas Todhunter Shields (1873-1955): The Canadian Spurgeon
• 9:15 am – STEVE HANKINS
  Matters of Conscience: Exegetical and Hermeneutical Observations on the Use of Syneidesis in the Greek New Testament and Some Ministry Implications
• 10:00 am — Break
• 10:15 am – MARK BRUFFEY
  The Function of “The Nature of Things” in the Theology of Charles Finney
• 11:00 am – BRIAN WAGNER
  The Perspicuity of Scripture: Rehearing the Testimony from Christian History of Those Who Held to the View as Foundational to Their Evangelical Hermeneutic
• 11:45 am – Lunch (Mack Library Periodicals Room)

The Bible Faculty Summit is dedicated to promoting scholarship in service of the church. And one of our core commitments at BJU Seminary is to prepare men and women to serve the church. That’s one reason I am personally so excited that Bob Jones University and BJU Seminary are hosting this year’s BFS. There is a telos to our activity, an end in view—we are doing this in order to build up and serve the church.

I hope you’ll make plans to attend this year’s Summit. After looking at the schedule of papers to be presented, I’m convinced this is an event you won’t want to miss. At BJU you will be our honored guest, and we don’t want your place to be empty.

Registration for our conference will be held from 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. at our Welcome Center on Tuesday, July 31. Dinner will be served at 5:15 p.m. in the Kalmbach Room of the Dining Common, and our first paper will be read at 6:15 p.m. in the Seminary building. Our final paper will be read at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, August 2, with an 11:30 a.m. lunch provided as our final conference event.

If you have any questions for us as a host institution, please feel free to reach out to Dr. Kevin Oberlin, Associate Dean of the School of Religion. We’ll be glad to help in any way we can!

Warmly,

Sam Horn
EVP for Enrollment and Ministerial Advancement
Dean, Seminary and School of Religion
Bob Jones University

The paper proposal period for the 2018 Bible Faculty Summit has ended. There were nearly three times as many proposals as there were slots for them.

The BFS committee is busy responding to this excellent problem and needs extra time to deliberate beyond the promised May 1 notification day. We are attempting to include as many papers as possible while still choosing the best quality submissions. We also want to preserve some opportunity for PhD students. Please pray for the committee to have wisdom. We hope to send out responses to all proposals within two weeks.

If you have submitted a paper proposal but have not registered for the conference, please register at the link below.