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Bible Faculty Summit 2018 Schedule

June 1, 2018 By Mark Ward

Presenters, please send your papers to Mark Ward at info@biblefacultysummit.org 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)

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Steering Committee

Mark Ward, President
Logos Bible Software

Phil Brown
God’s Bible School and College

Ben Edwards
Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary

Larry Oats
Maranatha Baptist University

Kevin Oberlin
Bob Jones University

Ken Rathbun
Faith Baptist Bible College

Brett Williams
Central Baptist Theological Seminary

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