The Bible Faculty Summit is issuing a formal call for papers for the 2019 Summit. The paper proposal period will end Tuesday, April 30, 2019.

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

A few other notes:

• The Summit committee 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 on Aug 6–Aug 8, at International Baptist College and Seminary.
• 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.

The Bible Faculty Summit for 2018 is complete. Many thanks to Bob Jones University for their generous hospitality—and the papers delivered by their gifted faculty.

Pencil in Tuesday, July 30 through Thursday, August 1, for the 2019 Summit.

Schedule

Bob Jones University is looking forward to hosting the Bible Faculty Summit. As you arrive on Tuesday, July 31, please check in at the Welcome Center (located just east of the fountain at the front of campus) between 3 and 5 P.M. Dinner will be served at 5:15 P.M. in the Mack Library Periodicals Room (note the new location), and the conference will begin right after dinner in Seminary 113 (another room change). When you check in, you will receive a printed schedule with updated locations.

If you need anything, please feel free to talk to the Welcome Center staff or call Brendon Johnson, Administrative Assistant to the Associate Dean of the School of Religion (office: 864.241.1656; mobile: 864.385.9432).

Papers

Presenters, please send your papers as soon as possible to Mark Ward ([email protected]). Papers can be sent at the last minute before you present, but it would be best if they came in a bit earlier. Your papers will be placed on a password-protected page on the website for attendees to download. Many will follow along on their computers as you read.

Presenters, please send your papers to Mark Ward at [email protected] 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)