Tuesday, July 29

• 3:00– 5:00 pm – Registration
• 5:00 pm – Dinner
• 6:00 pm – Greetings from Mark Ward and BJU Representative
• 6:15 pm – Paul Himes
  “Biblical Theology as a Nexus of Christian Intellectual Disciplines”
• 7:05 pm – Glenn John Kerr
  “The ESV and Conjectural Emendation: A Dubious Inheritance from the RSV and Past Interpreters”

Wednesday, July 30

• 7:30 am – Breakfast
• 8:15 am – Devotional: BJU President or Representative
• 8:30 am – Brian Curtis Collins
  “Reading the Bible as Part of Which Great Tradition? A Critique of Allegorical Interpretation and a Commendation of the Reformation’s Recovery of the Literal Sense”
• 9:15 am – Ryan Meyer
  “What did John the Baptist Predict? A Biblical Theology of Spirit Baptism in the Gospels”
• 10:00 am – BREAK
• 10:15 am – Jared Samuel Twigg
  “Reading Ezekiel 20:25– 26 Intertextually: A Psalmist’s Guide to Ezekiel’s ‘Not-Good Statutes’”
• 11:00 am – Bobby Howell
  “‘A Due Use of Ordinary Means’: Proposing Standard Hermeneutics for 1689 Federalism”
• 11:45 am – Group Photo
• 12:00 pm – Lunch
• 1:00 pm – Layton Talbert
  “The Boundaries of Contingency in Prophecy”
• 1:45 pm – Mark Sidwell
  “Conversion as an Expression of Agency Among African Americans in the Great Awakening”
• 2:30 pm – Break
• 2:45 pm – Preston Mayes
  “Pentateuchal Backgrounds for debates between Covenant and Dispensational Theologies”
• 3:30 pm – Daniel L. Arter
  “Between Two Temples: Biblical Theology and the Fundamentalist Temptation to Withdraw”
• 4:15 pm – Break
• 5:00 pm – Dinner
• 6:15 pm – Brett J. Williams
  “What in the World is a Worldview? Examining Metaphysics as Necessary for Christian Theology”
• 7:00 pm – Joel Arnold
  “Veils and Voices: Reception-Historical Trajectories of 1 Corinthians 11:2–16”
• 8:00 pm – Ice Cream Social

Thursday, July 31

• 7:30 am – Breakfast
• 8:30 am – Devotional and BFS Comments: Mark Ward
• 8:45 am – Douglas Kent Smith, Jr.
  “Is There an Objectively Verifiable Chiastic Structure in the Genesis Flood Account (MT & LXX)?”
• 9:30 am – Kyle Dunham
  “Cast Your Bread Upon the Waters (Eccl 11:1): A Call to Bold Action”
• 10:15 am – Break
• 10:30 am – Jonathan Pratt
  “Redaction Criticism, the Olivet Discourse, and the Second Coming of Christ”
• 11:15 am – Kerry McGonigal
  “Preaching the Big Picture: The Philosophy and Methodology of Preaching a Whole Book of the Bible in One Sermon”
• 12:00 – Lunch and dismissal

Please use the button below to register for the 2025 Bible Faculty Summit, to be held at BJU Seminary from Tuesday, July 29, through Thursday, July 31, 2024.

 

Reminder: the Bible Faculty Summit paper proposal period will end in three weeks, on Friday, May 16, 2025.

 

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.