This year, over 40 students and faculty from Southern Seminary and Boyce College will present papers at the 77th annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, held in Boston, MA.
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Boyce College Participants
Boyce College Participants
Tuesday, November 18th
| Time | Session | Presenter | Paper Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 AM- 9:40 AM | American Christianity | John Wilsey | Constitution or Creed in the Presbyterian Modernist Controversy, 1924-1926 |
| 9:00 AM- 9:40 AM | The Doctrine of Scripture | Matthew Bekken | Θεόπνευστος as “Life-Giving” in 2 Tim 3:16? A Survey of the Background Imagery of Divine Breath |
| 9:40 AM- 10:10 AM | Lutheran Studies | Brian Vickers | “Everything a Christian Needs to Know”: Luther’s Theology in the Shorter Catechism |
| 9:50 AM- 10:30 AM | Creedal Christianity | Denny Burk | Imprecision in the ESV’s Rendering of μονογενής: Retrieving the Nicene Interpretation of John |
| 9:50 AM- 10:30 AM | Systematic Theology | Michael Carlino | Felix Culpa & Consummation Anyway: A Reformed Proposal for Understanding God’s Decree & Covenant |
| 10:40AM- 11:20 AM | Old Testament Prophetic and Apocalyptic Books | John J. Baker | Using Jeremiah to Vindicate Ezekiel: Reframing Prophetic Validation in Deut 18 |
| 10:40 AM- 11:20 AM | Creedal Christianity | Brian Wagers | Critiquing Protestant Use of the Filioque in the Nicene Creed |
| 10:40 AM- 11:20 AM | Church History | Terry Michael Wise | Providence and Prestige: Misguided Faith and Ambition in Southern Defenses of Slavery |
| 10:40 AM- 11:20 AM | New Testament | Daniel Stevens | Literature for Literati: An Assessment of Recent Literary Claims Regarding the Gospels |
| 11:30 AM- 12:10 PM | New Testament Christology | Stephen Wellum | Spirit Christology and the Divine Works of the Incarnate Son in the Gospels |
| 11:30 AM- 12:10 PM | Old Testament Prophetic and Apocalyptic Books | Justin Anderson | Highway to Zion: Linguistic and Thematic Parallelism between Isaiah 1–5 and Isaiah 34–35 |
| 1:30 PM- 2:10 PM | Christianity and Culture | Timothy Paul Jones | Ethnological Apologetics: Models of Identity Formation in Second-Century Apologetic Texts |
| 3:10 PM- 3:50 PM | American Christianity | Adam E. Peterson | Our Fate is One: African American Creedal Christianity and the Rise of Jim Crow, 1895-1915 |
| 4:00 PM- 4:40 PM | Systematic Theology | Roberto Martinez | Francis Turretin and the Psychological Analogy: A Reformed Critique within the Nicene Tradition |
| 4:00 PM- 4:40 PM | American Christianity | Travis C. Hearne | The Disillusionment of Christian America: Reinhold Niebuhr’s Realist Turn |
Wednesday, November 19th
| Time | Session | Presenter | Paper Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30 AM- 9:10 AM | Bible Exposition and Hermeneutics | James Fazio | “You Need Not That Any Man Teach You”: Revisiting the Holy Spirit’s Role as Biblical Expositor |
| 8:30 AM- 9:10 AM | Theological Method in Counseling Practice | Jeremy Pierre | The Nicene Creed as Model of Theological Method for Biblical Application to Human Personhood |
| 9:10 AM- 9:40 AM | Hermeneutics | Brian Vickers | Senses and Sensibility: Protestants and the Four Fold Sense |
| 9:20 AM- 10:00 AM | Creedal Christianity | Logan Prettyman | Deification through Imitation: Mimesis in the Vita Antonii |
| 9:20AM- 10:00 AM | Church History | Casey G. McCall | “For the Sake of Attaining a Greater Good”: Andrew Fuller’s Pastoral Approach to Politics |
| 9:20AM- 10:00 AM | Theological Method in Counseling Practice | Peter Martin | Man in Relation to the Trinity: Theological Foundations for Engaging Psychotherapeutic Conditions |
| 10:10AM- 10:50 AM | Biblical Evangelism | Nicholas R. Clark | The Place of an Evangelist: A Biblical and Historical Survey |
| 10:10AM- 10:50 AM | Creedal Christianity | S.M.S. Cheng | The Holy Spirit Proceeds Ex Patre Filioque: A Biblical and Theological Reading of John 14–16 |
| 10:10AM- 10:50 AM | History for the Church | Stephen Presley | History and Theology at Nicaea |
| 10:10 AM- 10:50 AM | Theological Method in Counseling Practice | John Henderson | A Theological Method of Engaging Psychotherapeutic Models |
| 11:00 AM- 11:40 AM | History for the Church | John Wilsey | Religious Freedom: Traditionally Conservative or Classically Liberal? |
| 11:00 AM- 11:40 AM | Theological Method in Counseling Practice | Laura-Lee Alford | The Nicene Creed and OCD: An Application of Theological Reasoning |
| 1:40 PM- 2:10 PM | Early Christian Theology in Protestant Thought | Michael Haykin | Text and Color in Gregory of Nyssa’s Tract on Ousia and Hypostasis |
| 3:00 PM- 3:40 PM | The Doctrine of Scripture | Michael Haykin | “These Celestial Lines”: British & Irish Baptists and their Love of the Bible, 1640s-1840s |
| 3:50 PM- 4:30 PM | Christian History and Thought since 1700 | Heidi H. Dean | The Symbolic Worlds of Edwards and Baxter: Imagery & Reformed Realism |
| 3:50 PM- 4:30 PM | Practical Theology | Esther Sze Ying Lim | Longing Re-enchanted: Longing as a Central Aspect in C. S. Lewis’s Conversion and Apologetics |
| 4:40 PM- 5:20 PM | Hebrew Language | Kaspars Ozolins | Building Reading Fluency from the Start: A Program for Beginning Hebrew Students |
| 5:00 PM- 5:30PM | Christianity and Islam: History and Texts | Hal Nix | Christian Forgeries or Authentic Pronouncements? A Critical Examination of Muhammad’s Covenants |
| 5:30 PM- 6:10 PM | Christian History and Thought since 1700 | Anthony S. G. Baldwin | The Serampore Persian Pamphlet: Controversy, Creeds, and the Cross |
Southern Seminary ETS
Late Night
Wednesday, November 19th
9:15 PM – Midnight
Boston Marriott Copley Place
Grand Ballroom Salon BC
Thursday, November 20th
| Time | Session | Presenter | Paper Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1:00 PM- 1:40 PM | Church History | Barry V. Evans | Richard Baxter’s “Middle Way” Soteriology: Innovations to Counter Confusion |
| 1:50 PM- 2:30 PM | Church History | Jared Beebe | Divine Promises and Final Ful!llment: William Perkins’s Covenantal Lens on Eschatology |
| 1:50 PM- 2:30 PM | Church History | Thomas Holsteen | Augustine and the Rest of God |
| 2:40 PM- 3:20 PM | Church History | Greg Wills | The New Hampshire Confession: Old Calvinism, Edwardsean Calvinism, and Arminianism |
| 2:40 PM- 3:20 PM | Systematic Theology | Ali Mati | Augustine: Sexuality/Gender, and Men |
| 3:30 PM- 4:10 PM | Church History | Michael J. Pereira | Christ, the Prophet of the Church: John Owen on Sensus Literalis and Christ as Scopus Scripturae |
| 3:30PM- 4:10 PM | Systematic Theology | Jacob B. Percy | Women’s Trousers and the Global Church: God-Honoring Gender Expression beyond the West |
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