Save the date: the 2018 Bible Faculty Summit will be held at Bob Jones University in Greenville, SC, from the evening of Tuesday, July 31st through lunch on Thursday, August 2nd.

Lodging will be provided for Tuesday and Wednesday nights (Thursday night is also possible if necessary); meals will be provided from Tuesday supper through Thursday lunch.

Theme and call for papers will be announced in coming weeks.

Be sure to sign up for the Bible Faculty Summit email list at biblefacultysummit.org.

The Bible Faculty Summit 2017 is complete. We heard multiple good papers, enjoyed enriching fellowship, and sharpened one another. Appalachian Bible College and their representative John Rinehart were generous and gracious hosts.

Come next year! Submit a paper proposal here for 2018. Location and time are yet to be determined, but will likely be somewhere in the South around the first week of August.

A reminder to all presenters: please send your papers to Mark Ward as soon as possible at [email protected]. Last-minute submissions are acceptable but not preferred. Papers will be placed on the password-protected 2017 Summit Papers page.

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