If you have not yet registered for the Bible Faculty Summit, 2017 (Aug 1–3), please do so soon for the sake of our host institution, Appalachian Bible College, as they make preparations.

John Rinehart of Appalachian has also mentioned that if there is sufficient interest, a rafting trip on the lower section of the New River may be organized for the afternoon of Thursday, August 3. Cost: $85 per person; 12-person minimum. Some who are waiting for flights may have time to join in. Please contact John Rinehart or Mark Ward (or use the contact form on the BFS website).

Presenters, please send papers when complete (the last minute is fine) to [email protected]

All sessions will meet in room 302 of the Servant Center, upstairs from the dining hall. Registration will be in this same building.

Tuesday Evening

• 3–5 pm – Registration, Dining Commons
• 5:15 pm – Dinner, Dining Commons
• 6:15 pm – Scott Aniol
  Polishing Brass on a Sinking Ship: Toward a Traditional Dispensationalist Philosophy of the Church and Cultural Engagement
• 7:00 pm – RESPONSE: Brian Collins

Wednesday Morning

• 7:45 am – Breakfast, Dining Commons
• 8:15 am – Devotional – Dan Anderson, President of ABC
• 8:30 am – Troy Manning
  Literacy in Biblical Times
• 9:30 am – Mark Ward
  New Tools for Teaching Textual Criticism to Laypeople
• 10:30 am – Jon Pratt
  The “Israel of God” in Galatians 6:16
• 11:30 am – Lunch, Dining Commons

Wednesday Afternoon

• 1:00 pm – Tim Miller
  The Pure Spiritual Word
• 2:15 pm – C.J. Harris
  The Huguenot Mission to Brazil, 1556–58
• 3:30 pm – Paul Himes
  Attempting to Solve a Canonical Anomaly: Why Did the Anabaptists Cite Wisdom of Solomon as Scripture?
• 4:45 pm – Dinner, Dining Commons

Wednesday Evening

• 6:00 pm – Mark Sidwell
  Did Women Have a Reformation? The Case of Katherine Zell
• 7:30 pm – Kyle Dunham
  “For Our Good Always”: How the Intertextual Links between Deuteronomy and Ecclesiastes Reinforce Qohelet’s Positive Message.

Thursday Morning

• 7:45 am – Breakfast, Dining Commons
• 8:15 am – Devotional – Jon Rinker, Chair of Bible Department
• 8:30 am – Joel Pinter
  Refutation of Saracens by M. Luther Then and Now
• 9:30 am – Brian Collins
  Soli Deo Gloria or Beatitude: Aquinas, Calvin, and His Heirs on the Chief End of Man
• 10:30 am – Greg Stiekes
  Getting Wright Right: Toward a Clearer Understanding of N. T. Wright’s Definition of Justification in Light of the Protestant Reformation
• 11:30 am – Lunch, Dining Commons

Registration is still open for the Bible Faculty Summit, to be held August 1–3, 2017 at Appalachian Bible College in Mount Hope, WV. But paper proposals will be accepted only till Thursday, June 15. An announcement will be made shortly thereafter listing the papers that have been approved for presentation by the BFS committee.

Registration is now open for the Bible Faculty Summit, to be held August 1–3, 2017 at Appalachian Bible College in Mount Hope, WV. The first paper will be presented Tuesday evening, August 1 after supper at the college; the Summit will end with a lunch on Thursday, August 3.

Paper proposals are still being accepted. Proposals must be submitted by June 15 to be considered for inclusion. An announcement will be made shortly thereafter listing the papers that have been approved for presentation by the BFS committee.

REGISTER FOR THE CONFERENCE

SUBMIT A PAPER PROPOSAL

The Bible Faculty Summit is issuing a call for papers for 2017. The meeting will be held at Appalachian Bible College in the Charleston-Beckley area of West Virginia, Tuesday, August 1st to Thursday, August 3rd.

In honor of the quincentenary of the launch of the Protestant Reformation, the theme for the Summit is Reformation Then and Now. Papers on the theme will be given more discussion time.

CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT A PAPER PROPOSAL

ABC will be providing dormitory space to BFS attendees; meals will also be served in the campus dining hall from Tuesday supper through Thursday breakfast. PhD and ThM students are welcome in dorm housing but must cover their own meals. Spouses may stay in a room in the lodge for $25 per night (plus meal costs).

We also want to extend an invitation to any pastors with earned academic doctorates who may wish to participate.

Mark L. Ward, Jr, PhD
Bible Faculty Summit