Bible Faculty Summit 2018 Schedule

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)