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.

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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

Please use the button below to register for the 2023 Bible Faculty Summit, to be held at Appalachian Bible College from Tuesday, August 1 through Thursday, August 3, 2023.

Enjoy these photos from BFS 2022! If you couldn’t make it this year, we’d love to see you next year at Appalachian Bible College, Aug 1–3!