Schedule for BFS 2017

BFS Committee

Presenters, please send papers when complete (the last minute is fine) to [email protected]

All sessions will meet in room 302 of the Servant Center, upstairs from the dining hall. Registration will be in this same building.

Tuesday Evening

  • 3–5 pm – Registration, Dining Commons
  • 5:15 pm – Dinner, Dining Commons
  • 6:15 pm – Scott Aniol
    Polishing Brass on a Sinking Ship: Toward a Traditional Dispensationalist Philosophy of the Church and Cultural Engagement
  • 7:00 pm – RESPONSE: Brian Collins

Wednesday Morning

  • 7:45 am – Breakfast, Dining Commons
  • 8:15 am – Devotional – Dan Anderson, President of ABC
  • 8:30 am – Troy Manning
    Literacy in Biblical Times
  • 9:30 am – Mark Ward
    New Tools for Teaching Textual Criticism to Laypeople
  • 10:30 am – Jon Pratt
    The “Israel of God” in Galatians 6:16
  • 11:30 am – Lunch, Dining Commons

Wednesday Afternoon

  • 1:00 pm – Tim Miller
    The Pure Spiritual Word
  • 2:15 pm – C.J. Harris
    The Huguenot Mission to Brazil, 1556–58
  • 3:30 pm – Paul Himes
    Attempting to Solve a Canonical Anomaly: Why Did the Anabaptists Cite Wisdom of Solomon as Scripture?
  • 4:45 pm – Dinner, Dining Commons

Wednesday Evening

  • 6:00 pm – Mark Sidwell
    Did Women Have a Reformation? The Case of Katherine Zell
  • 7:30 pm – Kyle Dunham
    “For Our Good Always”: How the Intertextual Links between Deuteronomy and Ecclesiastes Reinforce Qohelet’s Positive Message.

Thursday Morning

  • 7:45 am – Breakfast, Dining Commons
  • 8:15 am – Devotional – Jon Rinker, Chair of Bible Department
  • 8:30 am – Joel Pinter
    Refutation of Saracens by M. Luther Then and Now
  • 9:30 am – Brian Collins
    Soli Deo Gloria or Beatitude: Aquinas, Calvin, and His Heirs on the Chief End of Man
  • 10:30 am – Greg Stiekes
    Getting Wright Right: Toward a Clearer Understanding of N. T. Wright’s Definition of Justification in Light of the Protestant Reformation
  • 11:30 am – Lunch, Dining Commons