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Bible Faculty Summit 2025 Schedule

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Tuesday, July 29

  • 3:00– 5:00 pm – Registration
  • 5:00 pm – Dinner
  • 6:00 pm – Greetings from Mark Ward and BJU Representative
  • 6:15 pm – Paul Himes
    “Biblical Theology as a Nexus of Christian Intellectual Disciplines”
  • 7:05 pm – Glenn John Kerr
    “The ESV and Conjectural Emendation: A Dubious Inheritance from the RSV and Past Interpreters”

Wednesday, July 30

  • 7:30 am – Breakfast
  • 8:15 am – Devotional: BJU President or Representative
  • 8:30 am – Brian Curtis Collins
    “Reading the Bible as Part of Which Great Tradition? A Critique of Allegorical Interpretation and a Commendation of the Reformation’s Recovery of the Literal Sense”
  • 9:15 am – Ryan Meyer
    “What did John the Baptist Predict? A Biblical Theology of Spirit Baptism in the Gospels”
  • 10:00 am – BREAK
  • 10:15 am – Jared Samuel Twigg
    “Reading Ezekiel 20:25– 26 Intertextually: A Psalmist’s Guide to Ezekiel’s ‘Not-Good Statutes’”
  • 11:00 am – Bobby Howell
    “‘A Due Use of Ordinary Means’: Proposing Standard Hermeneutics for 1689 Federalism”
  • 11:45 am – Group Photo
  • 12:00 pm – Lunch
  • 1:00 pm – Layton Talbert
    “The Boundaries of Contingency in Prophecy”
  • 1:45 pm – Mark Sidwell
    “Conversion as an Expression of Agency Among African Americans in the Great Awakening”
  • 2:30 pm – Break
  • 2:45 pm – Preston Mayes
    “Pentateuchal Backgrounds for debates between Covenant and Dispensational Theologies”
  • 3:30 pm – Daniel L. Arter
    “Between Two Temples: Biblical Theology and the Fundamentalist Temptation to Withdraw”
  • 4:15 pm – Break
  • 5:00 pm – Dinner
  • 6:15 pm – Brett J. Williams
    “What in the World is a Worldview? Examining Metaphysics as Necessary for Christian Theology”
  • 7:00 pm – Joel Arnold
    “Veils and Voices: Reception-Historical Trajectories of 1 Corinthians 11:2–16”
  • 8:00 pm – Ice Cream Social

Thursday, July 31

  • 7:30 am – Breakfast
  • 8:30 am – Devotional and BFS Comments: Mark Ward
  • 8:45 am – Douglas Kent Smith, Jr.
    “Is There an Objectively Verifiable Chiastic Structure in the Genesis Flood Account (MT & LXX)?”
  • 9:30 am – Kyle Dunham
    “Cast Your Bread Upon the Waters (Eccl 11:1): A Call to Bold Action”
  • 10:15 am – Break
  • 10:30 am – Jonathan Pratt
    “Redaction Criticism, the Olivet Discourse, and the Second Coming of Christ”
  • 11:15 am – Kerry McGonigal
    “Preaching the Big Picture: The Philosophy and Methodology of Preaching a Whole Book of the Bible in One Sermon”
  • 12:00 – Lunch and dismissal

Bible Faculty Summit Proposal Period Ends Tomorrow (Friday)

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The Bible Faculty Summit paper proposal period ends tomorrow, Friday, May 16, 2025. The committee would like to see several more proposals come in for this year.

Please use the button below to register for the 2025 Bible Faculty Summit, to be held at BJU Seminary from Tuesday, July 29, through Thursday, July 31, 2025.

 
 

BFS Paper Proposal Period Closing in Three Weeks: Friday, May 16

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The Bible Faculty Summit paper proposal period will end in three weeks, on Friday, May 16, 2025.

  • Remember to keep papers to 30 minutes to allow for discussion time.
  • Your paper need not be completed till 24 hours prior to your delivering it, but we do ask that you read a paper as opposed to giving a talk.
  • This year we will again have a publications committee working to help the best papers get published.
  • For the next three years (2025–2027), we plan to give preference to papers intending to fit the theme Do you intend theme, “Biblical Theology and Its Intersection with Various Disciplines (Systematic Theology, Exegesis, Rhetorical Criticism, Discourse Analysis, etc.).”

Three Important Bible Faculty Summit Announcements

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  1. The proposal period for the 2025 BFS, to be held at BJU, will open on Wednesday, January 1. Check the website for details.
  2. Cory Marsh has spearheaded a publishing initiative, in cooperation with the BFS committee, which would produce in three years a published conference volume in the Studies in Judeo-Christian Thought Monograph Series from SCS Press. The target release date is 2028. BFS attendees suggested a number of worthy topics, but the steering committee settled on a proposal offered by Dr. Paul Himes: “Biblical Theology and Its Intersection with Various Disciplines (Systematic Theology, Exegesis, Rhetorical Criticism, Discourse Analysis, etc.).” Papers submitted according to this theme will be given preference over others. We are hoping for 5–8 publishable papers each year for the next three years. We anticipate the structure of the published volume to include multiple “Parts” divided up by topic. A recent example is Douglas Moo, et al., Paul’s Letter to the Romans: Theological Essays (Hendrickson Academic, 2023) which is a compendium of ETS papers given over several years.
  3. The Bible Faculty Summit needs to change email service providers. You may receive an email from WordPress Jetpack in the next week asking you to confirm your subscription to the site. Please do so confirm if you wish to continue receiving BFS announcements.

Steering Committee

Mark Ward, President
Independent Scholar

Phil Brown
God’s Bible School and College

Andrew Goodwill
Maranatha Baptist University

Cory Marsh
Southern California Seminary

Kevin Oberlin
Bob Jones University

Ken Rathbun
Faith Baptist Bible College

Brett Williams
Central Baptist Theological Seminary

Contact the committee.

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