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
- LAYTON TALBERT
- 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
- MARK SIDWELL
- 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?
- RICHARD WINSTON
- 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)