Published Papers

The following are some of the papers first delivered at the Bible Faculty Summit that were subsequently published in various journals and magazines, for the benefit of the church.

To report a published paper, send bibliographic information to [email protected] or directly to Paul Himes.

BFS 1999

• Rodney J. Decker, “Communicating the Text in the Postmodern Ethos of Cyberspace: Cautions Regarding the Technology and the Text,” Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal 5, no. 1 (Fall 2000): 45-70.

BFS 2001

• Jonathan Pratt, “Dispensational Sanctification: A Misnomer,” Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal 7 (2002): 1-14.

BFS 2004

• Rodney J. Decker, “World Ministry: Translation and Training for the Two-Thirds World,” Journal of Ministry and Theology 9, no. 1 (Spring 2005): 72-89.

BFS 2007

• Rodney J. Decker, “The Rehabilitation of Heresy: ‘Misquoting’ Earliest Christianity, Part 1,” Journal of Ministry and Theology 13, no. 1 (Spring 2009): 30-61.
• Rodney J. Decker, “The Rehabilitation of Heresy: ‘Misquoting’ Earliest Christianity, Part 2,” Journal of Ministry and Theology 13, no. 2 (Fall 2009): 56-95.

BFS 2008

• “The Emerging Church: A Fundamentalist Assessment.” Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal 13.

BFS 2011

• Jonathan Pratt, “Articulating a Theology of Jesus.” In For It Stands in Scripture: Essays in Honor of W. Edward Glenny, ed. Ardel B. Caneday et al, 73-100. St. Paul, MN: University of Northwestern, Berntsen Library, 2019
• “Fundamentalism and the King James Version: How a Venerable English Translation became a Litmus Test for Orthodoxy.” Southern Baptist Journal of Theology.
• “Fundamentalism and the King James Version: How a Venerable English Translation became a Litmus Test for Orthodoxy.” Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal 16.

BFS 2012

• A. Philip Brown II, “Chrysostom and Epiphanius: Long Hair Prohibited as Covering in 1 Corinthians 11:4, 7,” Bulletin for Biblical Research 23, no. 3 (2013): 365-376.
• Mark Ward, “The Dwarfs are for the Dwarfs: Stanley Fish, The Pragmatic Presuppositionalist,” Answers Research Journal 6 (2013): 265–278.

BFS 2014

• Brian C. Collins, “Were the Fathers Amillennial? An Evaluation of Charles Hill’s Regnum Caelorum,” Bibliotheca Sacra 177, no. 706 (2020): 207-20.
• J. Rodney Decker, “Self-Defense and the Christian,” Journal of Ministry and Theology 18, no. 1 (Spring 2014): 25-64. [Note: Dr. Decker went home to be with the Lord on May 25, 2014. This paper was presented posthumously at the BFS]
• Paul A. Himes, “Rethinking the Translation of Διδακτικός in 1 Timothy 3.2 and 2 Timothy 2.24,” The Bible Translator 68, no. 2 (2017): 189-208.
• Jonathan Pratt, “The Collected Writings of Rod Decker: A Bibliography,” The Journal of Ministry and Theology 18 no. 2 (2014): 10-27.

BFS 2015

• Paul A. Himes, “First Peter’s Identity Theology and the Community of Faith: A Test-Case in How Social Scientific Criticism Can Assist with Theological Ethics via Biblical Theology,” Evangelical Quarterly 89, no. 2 (2018): 115-32. [Significantly revised from original paper]
• Tim Miller, “Mere Christianity: An Examination of the Concept in Richard Baxter and C. S. Lewis” Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal 20 (2015): 65-88.

BFS 2016

• Bryan Hand, “‘The Prayer of Faith Will Save the Sick’: Revisiting a Complex Passage in Light of Biblical Context–James 5:13–18,” Journal of Biblical Theology and Worldview 1, no. 1 (Fall 2020): 44–68.
• “The Pentecostalization of Global Christianity and the Challenge for Cessationism.” Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal 21.

BFS 2017

• Scott Aniol, “Polishing Brass on a Sinking Ship: Toward a Traditional Dispensational Philosophy of the Church And Cultural Engagement,” The Master’s Seminary Journal 30, no. 1 (Spring 2019): 129–46.
• Tim Miller, “The Meaning of ‘Milk’ in 1 Peter 2:1–3,” Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal 24 (2019): 63-80.
• Jonathan Pratt, “The ‘Israel of God’ in Galatians 6:16,” Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal 23 (2018): 59-75.
• Mark Sidwell, “Did Women Have a Reformation? The Case of Katherine Zell,” Puritan Reformed Journal 10 no. 1 (2018): 140-53.

BFS 2018

• A. Philip Brown II, “Righteous, Justice, and Rectitude: Structure in Proverbs 2 and the Final Shape of Proverbs” in The Old Testament Yesterday and Today: Essays in Honor of Michael P. V. Barrett (Grand Rapids: Reformation Heritage Books, 2019).
• Paul A. Himes, “Israel and Her Vocation: The Fourth Stage of Romans 11,” Bibliotheca Sacra 176, no. 701 (2019): 35-50. [Significantly revised from original paper]
• Timothy Hughes, “The Fallacy of the Excluded Middle: Reassessing the Category of ‘Deponency’ to Reclaim the Middle Voice in New Testament Greek Pedagogy,” Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal 25 (2020): 79-95.
• Ryan Martin, Understanding Affections in the Theology of JonathanEdwards: “The High Exercises of Divine Love.” T&T Clark Studies in Systematic Theology. London: T&T Clark, 2019.
• Mark Ward, “Can We Trust the Biblical Manuscripts?,” Bible Study Magazine (Sep-Oct 2018).

BFS 2019

• Paul A. Himes, “Did Jesus Quote the Apostles? The Possible Intertextuality and Significance of Revelation 2:24.” Southeastern Theological Review 11 no. 1 (Spr 2020): 31-52.
• Timothy E. Miller, “Text-Criticism and the Pulpit: Should One Preach about the Woman Caught in Adultery?” Themelios 45 no. 2 (2020): 368-84.
• Cory M. Marsh, “The Rapture: Cosmic Segregation or Antidote for Oppression? A Critical Response to the ‘Racial Ideology of Rapture,’” Journal of Ministry and Theology 24 no. 2 (Fall 2020): 60-79.
• Matthew C. Shrader, “New England Baptist Alvah Hovey: A Later Chapter in Baptist Edwardsianism,”Jonathan Edwards Studies 10, no. 1 (2020): 48-64.
• Mark Ward,“Which Textus Receptus? A Critique of Confessional Bibliology,”Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal 25 (2020): 51-77.
• “T. T. Shields: The Canadian Spurgeon.” Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal 24.

BFS 2021

• Paul A. Himes, “Lectio difficilior potior and an Aramaic Pun–Βεώρ versus Βοσόρ in 2 Peter 2:15 as a Test Case for How a Classic Rule Might Be Refined,” TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism 27 (2022): 69–83.
• Timothy Little, “Finding Lady Wisdom: The Excellent Woman (אשׁת חיל) as a Synecdoche for the Order of Creation and Interpreting Ecclesiastes 7:28,”Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 66, no. 1 (2023): 53–71.
• “Letters to a Skeptic: The Final Correspondence from Augustus Hopkins Strong to His Son Charles August Strong,” American Baptist Quarterly XXXIX, Summer.

BFS 2022

• Jon Pratt, “Hyper-Grace and Perseverance,” Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal 28 (2023): 65–80.
• Timothy E. Miller, “Unbelieving Child and Qualified Elder: A Case for ‘Faithful’ Children in Titus 1:6,” Themelios 49, no. 2 (2024): 334–345.

BFS 2023

• Cory M. Marsh, “To the Praise of His Glory: A Doxological-Historical Model for Biblical Theology,” Bibliotheca Sacra 179, no. 715 (2022): 294–305.

BFS 2024

• Cory M. Marsh, “Urgency in the Mundane: Present Living in Light of the Parousia Texts in 1 and 2 Thessalonians,” Journal of Biblical Theology and Worldview 5, no. 1 (2024): 22–35.