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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.).”

Call for Papers for the 2024 Bible Faculty Summit

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The Bible Faculty Summit is issuing a formal call for papers for the 2024 Summit, to be held at Maranatha Baptist University from Monday, July 29 through Wednesday, July 31, 2024. The paper proposal period will end Friday, May 10, 2024.

  • 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.

The 2023 Bible Faculty Summit

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At the 2023 Bible Faculty Summit, we enjoyed 13 papers this year, plus the usual edifying interaction both after the papers and during meals and other activities. Host Appalachian Bible College graciously fed and housed us, and we enjoyed their beautiful campus, set in the West Virginia hills.

BFS 2023 Registration Ends Next Monday, July 24

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Please register immediately for the 2023 Bible Faculty Summit. Registration closes next Monday, July 24. The schedule for this year’s Summit is below.

Register

Tuesday, August 1

  • 3:00–5:00 pm – Registration
  • 5:00 pm – Dinner
  • 6:00 pm – Greetings from Mark Ward and ABC representative
  • 6:15 pm – Layton Talbert
    “Levels of Systematic Theology”
  • 7:05 pm – Paul Himes
    “Beyond Sovereignty: Towards a Uniquely Dispensational Theology of Esther”

Wednesday, August 2

  • 7:45 am – Breakfast
  • 8:15 am – Devotional
  • 8:30 am – John M. Rinehart
    “When Was Abraham Born?”
  • 9:15 am – Cory M. Marsh
    “To the Praise of His Glory: The Doxological Link Between Creation and Redemption”
  • 10:00 am – Break
  • 10:15 am – Tim Little
    “The Relative Insignificance of Sex in the Old Testament: A Study of Degrees of Sexual Sin”
  • 11:00 am – J.A. Littler
    “The Jesus Who Cannot Save: Modern American Evangelicalism’s Inconsistent Application of Critical Theory”
  • 11:45 am – Group photo
  • 12:00 pm – Lunch
  • 1:00 pm – Jon Pratt
    “A Biblical-Theological Study of the New Testament Doctrine of Perseverance”
  • 2:00 pm – Preston Mayes
    “Mediterranean Fractionally Light Use of Beverage Alcohol”
  • 2:45 pm – Nathan Maroney
    “Translating the Word ‘Spirit’”
  • 3:30 pm – Joel Arnold
    “Cognitive Universalism and Missiology”
  • 4:45 pm – Dinner
  • 5:45 pm – Douglas Smith
    “Discourse Analysis Method”
  • 6:30 pm – David R Potter
    “Mihály Kornya: Peasant Prophet, Transylvanian Baptist Hero”
  • 8:30 pm – Ice cream at campus coffee shop

Thursday, August 3

  • 7:45 am – Breakfast
  • 8:15 am – Devotional and BFS Comments: Mark Ward
  • 8:30 am – Brian Collins
    “Baptist Approaches to Covenant Theology”
  • 9:15 am – Brian Hand
    “Feeling the Fall: A Biblical-Theological Examination of Melancholy as an Emotional Mirror of a Fallen World”
  • 10:00 am – Break
  • 10:15 am – James Schuppe
    “That Irritating ‘if’ in Hebrews 3:6”
  • 11:30 am – Lunch

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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