This year, over 40 students and faculty from Southern Seminary and Boyce College will present papers at the 78th annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, held in Denver, Colorado.
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Boyce College Participants
Boyce College Participants
Tuesday, November 17
| Time | Session | Presenter | Paper Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 AM – 9:40 AM | Baptist Studies: On Writing Baptist History | Michael Haykin | Alverey Jackson on the Free Offer of the Gospel |
| 9:00 AM – 9:40 AM | Retrieving Protestant Ethical and Political Thought | John Wilsey | A Protestant Case for the Retrieval of American Constitutional Order |
| 9:05 AM – 9:30 AM | Multi-Perspective Review of Preston Sprinkle’s ‘From Genesis to Junia’ | Denny Burk | A Complementarian Critique of ‘From Genesis to Junia’ |
| 9:50 AM – 10:30 AM | Defending the Faith: Church History I | Alex Moore | A Christian Ἐπιτήδευμα: The Neglected Alternative to Γένος in the Epistle to Diognetus |
| 9:50 AM – 10:30 AM | Church History: Studies in Patristics | Miles Woods | Wisdom, Eloquence, and Scripture in De Doctrina Christiana Book 4 |
| 9:50 AM – 10:30 AM | Church History: General Studies I | Jared Beebe | Puritan Hermeneutics Reexamined: William Perkins, the Geneva Bible, and the Covenant Paradigm |
| 9:50 AM – 10:30 AM | Systematic Theology: Scripture and Interpretation | Matthew J. Bekken | Is All Scripture Inspired or Life-Giving? Θεόπνευστος in 2 Timothy and Extra-Biblical Literature |
| 10:30 AM – 10:50 AM | Apologetics: Understanding Christian Apologetics: Doctrine, Purpose, and Limits | Timothy Paul Jones | Ecclesial Apologetics |
| 10:40 AM – 11:20 AM | New Testament: Studies in Paul I | Matthew Gay | Reconsidering ἐὰν μὴ in Galatians 2:16: A Linguistic Proposal |
| 10:40 AM – 11:20 AM | Systematic Theology: Studies in Biblical Theology I | Clint Archer | Cats in the Covenant? Animals in Biblical Covenants and the Possibility of their Resurrection |
| 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM | Lutheran Studies: Here We Stand: Lutherans and Apologetics | Brian Vickers | Law, Gospel, and Bound Choice: How Luther’s Theology Should Shape Apologetics |
| 11:30 AM – 12:10 PM | Practical Theology: General Studies I | Anna Walker | Beyond the Binary: The Sufficiency of Scripture for the Proper Prioritization of Psychology |
| 1:30 PM – 2:10 PM | Biblical Evangelism: Ancient Wisdom, Present Witness | Timothy Beougher | Reuben Archer Torrey: A Model of Using Apologetics for Evangelism |
| 1:30 PM – 2:10 PM | Church History: Studies in Medieval History | Chandler Collins | John of Damascus’s Biblical Interpretation in Its Apologetic and Patristic Context |
| 1:30 PM – 2:10 PM | Defending a Biblical View of the Mind: Human Psychology in Terms of Theological Anthropology | Peter Martin | The Untethered Mind: A Bavinckian Critique of Pragmatism and ACT |
| 1:30 PM – 2:10 PM | New Testament: Studies in Johannine Literature | Scott Gregory | Receive and Forgive: Spirit and Truth in the Resurrected Jesus’s Commission in John 20:22–23 |
| 2:20 PM – 3:00 PM | Defending a Biblical View of the Mind | Laura-Lee Alford | “The Relationship That Heals”: A Theological Critique of the Rogerian Therapeutic Relationship |
| 3:10 PM – 3:50 PM | Defending a Biblical View of the Mind | Jordan Granger | Foundations for Traumatology: Post-Enlightenment Philosophy or Theological Anthropology? |
| 3:10 PM – 3:50 PM | New Testament: Studies in Johannine Literature | Phillip Powers | Rethinking Johannine Eschatology: Apocalyptic Expectation in the Fourth Gospel |
| 3:10 PM – 3:50 PM | Old Testament: Studies in Prophetic and Apocalyptic Literature | Cory Chilcote | The Literary Structure of the Book of Hosea |
| 4:00 PM – 4:40 PM | Early Church Fathers and the Defense of the Faith | Bradley Green | The Importance of Grace in the Polemics of Augustine |
Wednesday, November 18
| Time | Session | Presenter | Paper Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30 AM – 8:55 AM | Christian Ethics: Nationalism, the Purpose of the State, and Christian Ethics | John Wilsey | Nationalism and a Rightly Ordered Patriotism: A Historical Approach |
| 8:30 AM – 9:10 AM | Biblical Worship: Worship as Formation | Matthew Westerholm | Worship Formation Considered: Baptism as a Test Case |
| 8:30 AM – 9:10 AM | Defending the Faith: Church History III | Anthony S. G. Baldwin | “Not an Innovation”: How William Carey and Andrew Fuller Used History to Defend Baptist Missions |
| 8:30 AM – 9:10 AM | Defending the Faith: Old Testament | Duane Garrett | Smashing Babies on Rocks (Psalm 137:9): Dealing with the Psalter’s Most Troubling Line |
| 9:20 AM – 10:00 AM | Method in Systematic Theology | Timothy J. Harris | Resemblance, Relationship, and Representation: Sonship and the Meaning of the Imago Dei |
| 9:20 AM – 10:00 AM | Defending the Faith: Church History III | Nathan Parsons | Claiming John Owen: Particular Baptists, Reformed Identity, and Defending the Faith |
| 10:10 AM – 10:50 AM | Method in Systematic Theology | Knox Brown | Essence, Energies, and Analogy: The Implicit Univocity in Gregory Palamas |
| 10:10 AM – 10:50 AM | Johannine Literature | Colby Reese | What Hath the Churches to Do with Rev. 20? Finding Meaning in John’s Compositional Strategy |
| 10:10 AM – 10:50 AM | The Contours of Cultural Apologetics: Historical Retrieval and Contemporary Application | Timothy Paul Jones | Reconfiguring Cultural Engagement: Ancient Apologetics and Positive, Neutral, and Negative Worlds |
| 11:00 AM – 11:40 AM | American Christianity | Travis C. Hearne | From Christian America to Pluralist America: The Protestant Left’s Historical Imagination |
| 3:00 PM – 3:25 PM | Old Testament Background/Ancient Near East: Averbeck, The Old Testament Law for the Life of the Church | Peter Gentry | Covenant and Context |
| 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM | Christianity and Islam: History and Texts | Devon Provencher | Defending the Bible in the Islamic Milieu: Early Christian Answers to Accusations of Corruption |
| 3:00 PM – 3:40 PM | Defending the Faith: Church History IV | Brian Wagers | Gregory the Theologian’s Pastor as a Defender of the Trinity |
| 3:00 PM – 3:40 PM | Elenctics: Missionary Apologetics for the 21st Century | Ben Robin | Elenctics and Apologetics: Recovering the Central Missionary Task |
| 3:40 PM – 4:10 PM | Christianity and Islam: History and Texts | Sook Grace Kim | “Those Whom Your Right Hands Possess”: A Textual and Historical Assessment of Sexual Slavery in Early Islam |
| 3:50 PM – 4:30 PM | Church History: Studies in American Christianity I | Jake Stone | “How Came They to Join a War”: Isaac Backus and a Baptist Case for the American Revolution |
| 3:50 PM – 4:30 PM | New Testament: General Studies III | Isaac Reff | Competing Paths of Realizing the Blessing: Galatians 3:10-12, Sirach 24, and Paul-Within-Judaism |
| 4:40 PM – 5:20 PM | Hebrew Language | Kaspars Ozolins | Advancing Student Assessment in Biblical Hebew Pedegogy |
| 5:00 PM – 5:30 PM | Christianity and Islam: History and Texts | Shane Folks | A Defense of the Apostle Paul Against Medieval Muslim Accusations |
| 5:30 PM – 6:10 PM | Defending the Faith: Church History IV | Logan Prettyman | Confessions of a Recovering Biographer: Augustine and the Birth of Autobiography |
| 5:30 PM – 6:10 PM | Church History: Studies in American Christianity I | Gregory Wills | Puritan Defense of Infant Baptism and of the State Church in Colonial New England |
| 5:30 PM – 6:10 PM | Systematic Theology: Studies in Christian Ethics | Andrew T. Walker | Natural Law at the Foundations of Justice: Nuremberg and the Moral Judgment of Genocide |
Southern Seminary ETS
Late Night
Wednesday, November 18th
9:15 PM
Location: Parlur room in the Sheraton
Thursday, November 19
| Time | Session | Presenter | Paper Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Book of Revelation: Assessing New Creation Millennialism | Thomas Schreiner | A Survey of New Creation Millennialism |
| 9:30 AM – 10:10 AM | Evangelical Philosophical Society: Apologetics Track | Kamarr W. Richée | Is Black Beautiful?: An Aesthetic Answer to the Afropessimist Assertion |
| 9:30 AM – 10:10 AM | Church History: Studies in Reformation Thought | Barry Evans | “Wherein We Must Forever Depart from Them”: Perkins and the Divisiveness of True Catholicity |
| 9:30 AM – 10:10 AM | Old Testament: Studies in Psalms and Hebrew Poetry | Cody Meador | The Great Psalm Scroll’s Presentation of Psalm 127 as Authored by David |
| 10:20 AM – 11:00 AM | Defending the Faith: Church History V | Michael E. Pohlman | In Praise of Clarity: Martin Luther Against “Studied Ambiguity” in Defending the Faith |
| 10:20 AM – 11:00 AM | Exploring African-American Evangelical Apologetics | Adam Peterson | Americans with Undivided Devotion: Defending African American Christianity and Nationality, 1919-1939 |
| 11:10 AM – 11:50 AM | Defending the Faith: Practical Theology V | Esther Sze Ying Lim | The Apologetical Uses of Paradise in C. S. Lewis’s Works: A Memory, a Reality, and a Promise |
| 11:10 AM – 11:50 AM | Exploring African-American Evangelical Apologetics | Kamarr W. Richée | Afrospēs: Eschatological Hope Against Afropessimist Ontological Closure |
| 12:00 PM – 12:40 PM | Church History: Studies in American Christianity II | Aaron Batdorf | The Corporate Temple: Reclaiming the Preisthood of All Believers from Individualist Anthropology |
| 3:40 PM – 4:20 PM | Church History: Studies in Jonathan Edwards | Zak Tharp | Jonathan Edwards on Defending Christian Orthodoxy in the “Subjects of Enquiry” Notebook |
| 4:30 PM – 5:10 PM | Patristics and Medieval History: Church Fathers on Doctrine, Art, and the Spiritual Life | Hannah Turrill | Songs from the Wine Press: Augustine on Grief, Temptation, and Repentance |
| 4:30 PM – 5:10 PM | New Testament: Studies in Hebrews | Daniel Stevens | Who Put That There? The Title of Hebrews and Its Inclusion in the Pauline Letter Collection |
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