Evangelical Theological Society: Nov. 20 - 22, 2024

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This year a number of students and faculty from Southern Seminary and Boyce College will be presenting papers at the 76th annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society to be held in San Diego, CA.

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Thursday, November 21
9:15 PM – Midnight
San Diego Marriott Marquis
San Diego Ballroom B

ETS 2024 Southern Baptist Theological Seminary &
Boyce College Participants

Wednesday, November 20th

TimeSessionPresenterPaper Title
8:30 AM-
8:55 AM
American ChristianityMatthew HasteThe Making of Global Evangelicalism: Transatlantic Discipleship during the Great Awakening
8:30 AM-
9:10 AM
Baptist StudiesJohn WilseyRevering the Tradition of America’s Two Spirits
8:30 AM-
9:10 AM
Global EvangelismTim BeougherJohn R.W. Stott: A Key Leader in the 20th Century Expanse of Global Evangelicalism
8:30 AM-
9:10 AM
Systematic TheologyRobert G. LyonThe Holy Spirit as the Perfector of Divine Judgment with Implications for the Atonement
9:20 AM-
10:00 AM
Biblical TheologyThomas Sculthorpe‘The Nazirite Forerunner and Birth From Barrenness: Typology or Narrative Analogy?
9:20 AM-
10:00 AM
Global EvangelismHeidi Herberich Dean‘Bavinck on Archetypes: A Reformed Response to Orthodoxy’s Jonathan Pageau and Timothy Patitsas
9:20 AM-
10:00 AM
Practical TheologyGeorge ScondrasApologetical Fiction: Stories As Christian Witness in a Postmodern Context
11:00 AM-
11:25 AM
American ChristianityJohn Paul ArcenoTowards Filipinization: A Southern Baptist Story in the Philippines
11:00 AM-
11:40 AM
General EpistlesTom SchreinerRevelation 20 and The Milennium: A New Creation Model
11:00AM-
11:40 AM
Scriptural Use of ScripturePaul LamicelaThe “Angels Who Sinned” as a “Dynamic Analogy” in 2 Peter
11:00 AM-
11:40 AM
New TestamentDrake IsabellParaclete and Prophetic Spirit: The Holy Spirit as Witness in the Fourth Gospel and Apocalyse
11:00 AM-
11:40 AM
Lutheran StudiesBrian VickersLaw-Gospel: The Missing Link in Evangelical Hermeneutics
1:00 PM-
1:30 PM
Christianity and Islam: History and TextsDevon ProvencherTestimonia in Christian Texts During the Rise of Islam: An Unexpected Apologetic Tool
1:50 PM-
2:30 PM
Old TestamentJohn J. BakerBeyond the War Oracle: Interpreting the OAN as Formulaic Encouragement for Israel
2:20 PM-
2:50 PM
Christianity and Islam: History and TextsAyman IbrahimForging a Favored History: Competing Muslim Narratives on awwal man aslam
2:40 PM-
3:20 PM
The Doctrince of ScriptureMatthew BekkenEtymology and the Meaning of Θεόπνευστος in 2 Timothy 3:16
2:40 PM-
3:20 PM
Church HistoryBarry EvansConfessions and Concessions: Bunyan, Baptist Identity, and Boundaries of Communion
3:00 PM-
3:30 PM
Christianity and Islam: History and TextsAli MatiJohn of Damascus Approach to Islam: Critical Insights for Today’s Church

Thursday, November 21st

TimeSessionPresenterPaper Title
8:30 AM-
8:55 AM
“Gender as Love”: Dialoguing with Fellipe Do ValeGregg AllisonComplementarity in Dialog with Gender as Love
8:30 AM-
9:10 AM
New TestamentKaspars OzolinsIsaiah’s Third “Servant Song” as a Background to Hebrews 1:10-12
8:30 AM-
9:10 AM
Old TestamentDuane GarrettReconsidering the Colometry of the Psalms
8:40 AM-
9:05 AM
American ChristianityGreg WillsFrank Rawlinson, Southern Baptists, and Missionary Modernism
10:10AM-
10:50 AM
Johannie LiteratureJim HamiltonThe Chiastic Struction of John’s Gospel
10:10AM-
10:50 AM
Systematic TheologySamantha M.S. ChengSalvation Acquired and Applied: A Response to Sarah Coakley’s Incorporative Model of the Trinity
11:00AM-
11:40 AM
Public TheologyMichael Carlino‘From Babel to Pentecost & Beyond: A Biblical-Theological Response to Stephen Wolfe’s Nationalism
3:00 PM-
3:40 PM
Church HistoryHannah Turrill“The Same Sadness We Know”: Grief and Suffering in Augustine’s Expositions of the Psalms
3:50 PM-
4:30 PM
Gospel of MatthewJonathan PenningtonThe Gospel of Matthew in Its Greco-Roman Context
3:50 PM-
4:30 PM
Biblical WorshipMatthew WesterholmHow Does the Lord’s Supper…Work? Reclaiming the Beauty of the “Ordinance”
3:50 PM-
4:30 PM
Church HistoryThomas HolsteenAugustine’s Correspondence with Licentius: Rhetoric and Evangelism in the Late 4th Century
3:50 PM-
4:30 PM
Systematic TheologyKyle ClaunchInseparable Operations of the Trinity and the Divine Son’s Human Experience of the Spirit
4:20 PM-
4:50 PM
Biblical TheologyJim HamiltonReturn of the Kingdom and New Testament Theology
5:30 PM-
6:10 PM
Septuagint StudiesRobert L. PlummerSupplementary Participles in the LXX: Understanding a Common Participial Usage

Friday, November 22nd

TimeSessionPresenterPaper Title
8:30 AM-
9:10 AM
Systematic TheologyBenjamin J. RobinA Dogmatic Model of Natural Theology in the Thought of Herman Bavinck
8:30 AM-
9:10 AM
Church HistoryLogan PrettymanEast to West: A Comparison of Irenaeus and Athanasius on the Atonement
8:30 AM-
9:10 AM
Church HistoryMichael Haykin“I found a sweetness in the service of God”: The Affective Piety of Brilliana Harley
9:20 AM-
10:00 AM
Global EvangelicalismAnthony S. G. BaldwinEvangelicals in Persia 1811-1911: The Legacy of Henry Martyn
9:20 AM-
10:00 AM
Hebrew LanguagePeter J. GentryBook Review: John A. Cook, The Biblical Hebrew Verb
10:10AM-
10:50 AM
Global EvangelicalismChristopher D. NealTo All the Nations: The Role of Missions in Changing Views of Race in the SBC
10:10 AM-
10:50 AM
Church HistoryAdam PetersonThis Country is as Much Ours: Nineteenth-Century Black Christians and American Nationality
11:00 AM-
11:40 AM
Old Testament Backgrounds/ Ancient Near EastKaspars OzolinsObservations on the Doctrine of Scripture in Light of Biblical Hebrew Diachrony
2:00 PM-
2:40 PM
Christianity and CultureTimothy Paul Jones‘Ecclesial Apologetics: The Church as Argument for Christianity in the Second-Century Apologists
2:00 PM-
2:40 PM
Church HistoryHunter Hindsman‘Retrieving Justin Martyr for a Theology of Religions? An Evaluative Critique of a Recent Trend
2:50 PM-
3:30 PM
Global EvangelicalismAli Mati‘Body-Soul Relationship: Examining Dualistic-Holism Approach in Healing and Wholeness
3:40 PM-
4:20 PM
Global EvangelicalismDustin B. Bruce“A Strong Personal Attachment”: Christopher Anderson’s Advocacy of the Serampore Mission
3:40 PM-
4:20 PM
Church HistoryTerry Michael WiseSwimming against the Tide: The Evangelistic Conversion of Orestes Brownson to Catholicism
3:40PM-
4:20 PM
Church HistoryNathan ParsonsRichard Hooker and William Perkins on the Nature and Obligations of the Christian Minister
3:40 PM-
4:20 PM
Practical TheologyCephas BahagoDualistic Wholism: A Theological Anthropological Construct for Dissociative Disorders
4:30 PM-
5:10 PM
Practical TheologyLaura-Lee AlfordA Sacrifice to Make Things Right: Christ’s Atonement and the Struggles of OCD

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