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.

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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”

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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”

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• 11:30 am – Group Photo
• 12:00 pm – Lunch

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• 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?”

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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

The Bible Faculty Summit is issuing a formal call for papers for the 2021 Summit, to be held Faith Bible Bible College and Theological Seminary in Ankeny, Iowa, from Tuesday, July 27 through Thursday, July 29, 2020. The paper proposal period will end Friday, April 30, 2021.

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

A few other notes:

• The Summit committee, as usual now, 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, but we do ask that you read a paper.
• 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.

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One additional note: Brett Williams, Provost at Central Baptist Theological Seminary, is now taking the Bible Faculty Summitt Steering Committee slot long held so faithfully and energetically by Jeff Straub. Thank you, Jeff, for years of excellent service! And thank you, Brett, for stepping in to help!

Friends,

I pray you are well and have been able to serve Christ and your schools during this unprecedented time.

Faith Baptist Bible College has had to decline to host the 2020 Bible Faculty Summit, though they are planning to host in 2021. The BFS Committee thinks it best to keep our options open at this point. We don’t know what the situation will be like in late July. We are looking into other potential venues for housing the summit, including a Christian retreat center and a church that has offered its premises (both are on the East Coast). Alternatively, if a face-to-face meeting proves impossible in God’s good providence, we may hold a one-day conference through Zoom.

So please continue to send in your paper proposals; the proposal period ends Thursday, April 30. Use the buttons below.

Mark Ward
Bible Faculty Summit

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