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Summit Starts Tomorrow (Tuesday, July 27)

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A few notes for attendees:

  • When you arrive, come to the Nettleton Center to register. This is where those staying on campus will receive their room keys and keycards.
  • Ellen Long of Faith has sent airport pick-up information to the gentlemen who have requested pick-ups.
  • A reminder: Faith’s dormitories are set up as a suite with two bedrooms sharing a bathroom. Each participant will be able to have his own bedroom and share a bathroom. The housing department will supply bedding, one towel, and one washcloth for each participant. A mattress cover will be on each bed in your room, but the rest of the bedding will be on a desk in the room so that you can pick which bed you want to use for sleeping.
  • The conference brochure is available here in PDF form.

2021 Bible Faculty Summit Schedule

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The schedule for the 2021 Bible Faculty Summit appears below. Presenters must send their papers to info@biblefacultysummit.org at some point prior to their presentations. Papers will be posted to a password-protected page. Please click the button below to register for the 2021 Summit below so that our kind hosts at Faith Baptist Bible College and Theological Seminary can plan appropriately.

Tuesday, July 27

  • 3 – 5 pm – Registration
  • 5:00 pm – Dinner
  • 6:00 pm – Greetings from Mark Ward and Ken Rathbun
  • 6:15 pm – Scott Aniol • “Biblical Ordinances and Visible Signs: How Baptists Weakened Biblical Authority by Limiting Ordinances to Two”
  • 7:05 pm – Ryan Martin • “Faculty Psychology”

Wednesday, July 28

  • 7:30 am – Breakfast
  • 8:15 am – Devotional by Keith Kobelia
  • 8:45 am – Brian Collins • “Four Common Approaches to the Olivet Discourse”
  • 9:30 am – Paul Himes • “Lectio difficilior potior and an Aramaic Pun: Beor vs. Bosor in 2 Peter 2:15 as a Test Case for How a Classic Rule Might Work”
  • 10:15 am – Break
  • 10:45 am – Andrew Goodwill • “Blessing and Curse: the Significance of Contrapuntal Structure to the Message and Exposition of 2 Kings 3:1–8:6”
  • 11:30 am – Group Photo
  • 12:00 pm – Lunch
  • 1:00 pm – Tim Miller • “The Sensus Divinitatis in Calvin, Plantinga, and Romans 1”
  • 2:00 pm – Break
  • 2:15 pm – Jared Garcia • “Is David Overreacting? An Analysis of Ancient Near East Hospitality Code in 1 Samuel 25”
  • 3:15 pm – Ryan Meyer • “‘This Generation’ in Matthew 24:34”
  • 4:15 pm – Break
  • 4:45 pm – Dinner
  • 6:15 pm – Matt Shrader • “Theism, Atonement, and the State of Northern Baptist Theology in the Late Nineteenth Century: The Curious Interactions of Augustus Hopkins Strong and Alvah Hovey”
  • 7:00 pm – Joel Arnold • “Is Historical-Cultural Background Critical for Interpretation?”

Thursday, July 29

  • 7:30 am – Breakfast
  • 8:30 am – Devotional and BFS Comments: Mark Ward
  • 8:45 am – Keith Kobelia • “Romans 7 and the Self-Reliant Believer” (Chapter in Festschrift for Myron Houghton)
  • 9:30 am – Jon Pratt • “Protestant Antinomianism”
  • 10:15 am — Break
  • 10:30 am – Tim Little • “Lady Wisdom”
  • 11:15 am – Break and Lunch

Last Call for Papers

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The proposal period for papers for the 2021 Bible Faculty Summit will close Friday, April 30. The Summit will be held at Faith Bible Bible College and Theological Seminary in Ankeny, Iowa, from Tuesday, July 27 through Thursday, July 29, 2021. The paper proposal period.

COVID has noticeably reduced our number of proposals this year; the committee is urging interested parties to submit proposals at this time even if their future travel plans are uncertain.

Note: the BFS committee has put together a series of Paper Proposal Guidelines which are available here.

A few other notes:

  • The Summit committee, as usual now, has not established a theme: we want to hear what you are working on.
  • Your paper need not be completed till 24 hours prior to your delivering it, but we do ask that you read a paper.
  • This year we will again have a publications committee working to help the best papers get published.

If you have a paper proposal which might lend itself well to a response from another participant, please contact Mark Ward.

Call for Papers for the 2021 Bible Faculty Summit

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The Bible Faculty Summit is issuing a formal call for papers for the 2021 Summit, to be held Faith Bible Bible College and Theological Seminary in Ankeny, Iowa, from Tuesday, July 27 through Thursday, July 29, 2020. The paper proposal period will end Friday, April 30, 2021.

Note: the BFS committee has put together a series of Paper Proposal Guidelines which are available here.

A few other notes:

  • The Summit committee, as usual now, has not established a theme: we want to hear what you are working on.
  • Your paper need not be completed till 24 hours prior to your delivering it, but we do ask that you read a paper.
  • This year we will again have a publications committee working to help the best papers get published.

If you have a paper proposal which might lend itself well to a response from another participant, please contact Mark Ward.

One additional note: Brett Williams, Provost at Central Baptist Theological Seminary, is now taking the Bible Faculty Summitt Steering Committee slot long held so faithfully and energetically by Jeff Straub. Thank you, Jeff, for years of excellent service! And thank you, Brett, for stepping in to help!

Bible Faculty Summit 2020 Canceled; Save the Date for 2021

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The Bible Faculty Summit Committee (Jeff Straub, Phil Brown, Ken Rathbun, Kevin Oberlin, Larry Oats, and Mark Ward) has come to the difficult decision that we must cancel the BFS for 2020.

We plead COVID-19.

The committee explored using Zoom, considered inviting pastors to listen in, and spoke to presenters to solicit their perspectives. But the best things about the BFS are difficult or even impossible on Zoom: open and expert feedback (and/or pushback!), fellowship with other PhD-level Bible teachers, and the opportunity for ice cream are all currently beyond its capabilities. As with church gatherings, the lockdown has helped clarify and elevate the value of face-to-face meeting.

And in God’s good providence, Faith Baptist Bible College has offered to facilitate such a meeting on July 27–29, 2021. Mark your calendars; we hope to see you there.

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

Contact the committee.

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