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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

Get Your Bible Faculty Summit Proposal in Now

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The paper proposal period for the 2022 Bible Faculty Summit will end in two weeks, on Saturday, April 30. Please also register for the summit.

As a reminder, the 2022 Bible Faculty Summit will be held at Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary from Tuesday, July 26 through Thursday, July 28, 2022.

  • Remember to keep papers to 30 minutes to allow for discussion time.
  • 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.

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 [email protected] 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

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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