This year a number of students and faculty from Southern Seminary and Boyce College will be presenting papers at the 75th annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society to be held in San Antonio, TX.
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Southern Seminary ETS
Late Night
Wednesday, November 15th
9:15pm–midnight
Republic ABC at the Grand Hyatt
600 E. Market St.
San Antonio, TX 78205
ETS 2023 Southern Baptist Theological Seminary &
Boyce College Participants
Tuesday, November 14th
| Time | Session | Presenter | Paper Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 AM-9:40 AM | Christianity and Culture | Scarlett Clay | Bahnsen goes to the Gallery: A Presuppositional Response to Anselm Kiefer’s “Sternenfall” |
| 9:00 AM-9:40 AM | Theological Anthropology | Michael Carlino | The Imago Dei Shapes the Visio Dei: Bavinck’s Covenantal Formulation of the Beatific Vision |
| 9:00 AM-9:40 AM | Theological Anthropology | Aaron Lewis | Toward a Theological Theology of Trauma |
| 9:50 AM-10:30 AM | Hebrew Language | Zhengguang Wu | Validating the Accentual Division in Three Cases That were Understood as Masoretic Errors |
| 9:50 AM-10:30 AM | Hebrew Language | Timothy K. Beougher | Take Heed unto Yourselves’: Richard Baxter’s Admonitions for Pastoral Holiness |
| 9:50 AM-10:30 AM | Systematic Theology | Kyle D. Claunch | The Inseparable Operations of the Trinity and the Divine Son’s Human Experience of the Spirit |
| 10:20 AM-10:50 AM | Christian Nationalisms in Christian History | John Wilsey | Peace and Freedom: Progressive Christianity, American Exceptionalism, and John Foster Dulles |
| 10:30 AM-11:00 AM | Dialogue with Matthew Barrett’s Reformation as Renewal | Michael A.G. Haykin | The Catholicity of 17th-Century Particular Baptist Trinitarianism |
| 10:40 AM-11:20 AM | New Testament | Ray A. Umphrey | Foolish Givers and the Father’s Gift: An Exegetical Case for Intentional Unity in Matthew 7:6-11 |
| 10:40 AM-11:20 AM | Old Testament | John J. Baker | A Prophet Within and Against His Context: The Techniques and Purpose of Ezekiel’s Prophecy |
| 10:40 AM-11:20 AM | Systematic Theology | Thomas J. Sculthorpe | He Makes Her Desert Like the Garden of Yahweh: Isaac’s Birth as Resurrection from Death |
| 11:30 AM-12:10 AM | Christianity and Culture | Timothy Paul Jones | Doing Civic Good without Bowing to Civic Gods: Second-Century Apologetics as Cultural Catechesis |
| 11:30 AM-12:10 AM | Hebrew Language | Kaspars Ozolins | Facilitating L2 Input in Biblical Hebrew Pedagogy |
| 2:00 PM – 2:40 PM | Systematic Theology | Aaron D. Batdorf | The Priesthood of All Believers in Ecclesiological Development |
| 2:00 PM-2:40 PM | Bioethics & Theological Anthropology | Gregg R. Allison | Theology of Human Embodiment: The Social Body, the Sexual Body, and Implications for Bioethics |
| 2:00 PM-2:40 PM | Theological Anthropology | Ali Mati | What a Human Person is; Continuity and Discontinuity in Christianity and Ubuntu Metaphysics |
| 2:00 PM-2:40 PM | Church History | Cory D. Higdon | “A Conscience Rightly Informed”: John Cotton and the Theology of Religious Establishment |
| 2:50 PM-3:30 PM | Systematic Theology | Brian Vickers | Spirituality’s Vital Principle: Holiness in the Theology of Samuel Davies |
| 2:50 PM-3:30 PM | Theological Anthropology | Jacob B. Percy | A Creation Essentialist Framework for God-Honoring Gender Expression |
| 3:40 PM-4:20 PM | New Testament | Shane Folks | The Apostle Paul in Classical Qur’anic Exegesis |
| 3:40 PM-4:20 PM | Theological Anthropology | Denny Burk | Does ‘One-Flesh’ Mean Conjugal Union or Merely Fictive Kinship? |
| 3:40 PM-4:20 PM | Psalms and Hebrew Poetry | Junyong Park | Defining the Enemy in the Individual Lament Psalms as the Unscrupulous Exploiter |
| 4:30 PM-5:10 PM | Old Testament | Nicholas J. Campbell | Covenant and Confession: Contrasting Shecaniah’s Covenant and Ezra’s Confession in Ezra 10 |
| 4:30 PM-5:10 PM | Theological Anthropology | Gracilynn J. Hanson | Establishing a Framework for Female-Gendered Embodiment |
| 4:30 PM-5:10 PM | Theological Anthropology | Nicholas Abraham | Praying as Lost Sinners: Andrew Fuller’s Edwardsean Anthropology and the Practice of Prayer |
Wednesday, November 15th
| Time | Session | Presenter | Paper Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30 AM-9:10 AM | Biblical Worship | Jim Hamilton | From Cast Down Soul to the City of the Great King: Worship and the Flow of Thought in Psalms 42-49 |
| 9:20 AM-10:00 AM | Puritan Theology in Post-Reformation Context | Shawn D. Wright | The Pastor’s Principle Usefulness According to John Owen: Applying the Gospel from Psalm 130 |
| 9:20 AM-10:00 AM | Old Testament Narrative Literature | Jonathan Ahlgren | Allegiance to David: The Characterization of Jonathan, Abigail, and Abner |
| 9:20 AM-10:00 AM | Hermenutics | Gregg R. Allison | The Illumination of the Holy Spirit for the Interpretation of Scripture as Affected by the Fall |
| 9:50 AM-10:20 AM | Christianity and Islam | Amos Luka | Muhammad Yusuf’s Theological Views: Understanding Tripartite Salafism in Boko Haram |
| 10:10 AM-10:50 AM | Theological Anthropology | Jeremy Jessen | Systematic Spirituality Revisited: J.I. Packer’s Practical Theology as Educational Model |
| 3:15 PM-3:55 PM | Old Testament | Duane A. Garrett | The Meaning of Psalm 68:18 (MT 68:19) and Its Use in Ephesians 4:8-9 |
| 3:15 PM-3:55 PM | Church History | Ayman Ibrahim | Was Muhammad really a descendant of Abraham? Is Islam an Abrahamic Religion? |
| 3:15 PM-3:55 PM | Scriptural Use of Scripture | Jim Hamilton | Typology and Authorial Intent: The Latter Necessary for the Validity of the Former |
| 4:05 PM-4:45 PM | Church History | Hannah Turrill | The Wound of Grief: Stoicism and Grief in Augustine’s City of God |
| 4:05 PM-4:45 PM | Theological Anthropology | Brian Wagers II | Gregory of Nazianzus’s 10 Christological Commandments In Epistle 101 |
| 4:55 PM-5:35 PM | Theological Anthropology | Laura-Lee Alford | Trauma and Psychosomatic Unity of the Imago Dei |
| 4:55 PM-5:35 PM | New Testament | J. Benjamin Hussung | Mercy as Righteous Virtue in Matthew’s Narrative |
| 5:45 PM-6:25 PM | Theology and Missions | J. Keith McKinley | Defining the Missionary Mission in Romans 15:14-24 |
| 5:45 PM-6:25 PM | Evangelicalism in the Long Eighteenth Century | Matthew D. Haste | “An Infinite Variety of Beauties”: Anne Dutton’s Colorful Reflections on the Glory of Christ |
| 5:45 PM-6:25 PM | Church History | Tom Holsteen | The Sea-Journey Metaphor and Augustine’s Critical Appropriation of Platonism in His Early Works |
Thursday, November 16th
| Time | Session | Presenter | Paper Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1:00 PM-1:40 PM | Theological Anthropology | Hunter T. Hindsman | The Dignifying Function of the Logos Spermatikos in Justin Martyr’s Theological Anthropology |
| 1:00 PM-1:40 PM | Church History | Alex Moore | “Acceptable in the Sight of the One Who Made Us”: The Restoration of Created Identity in 1 Clem |
| 1:00 PM-1:40 PM | Theological Anthropology | Nicholas R. Clark | Revive Us Again: A Case Study of Asbury University and the Role of Man in Revival |
| 1:50 PM-2:30 PM | Christian History and Thought since 1700 | Anthony S. G. Baldwin | Sati and Juggernaut Beyond Claudius Buchanan: Missionary Perspectives of Hindu Ritual Suicide |
| 2:20 PM-3:00 PM | Early Christian Theology in Protestant Thought | Michael A.G. Haykin | “Spiritum sanctum adoramus”: The Ontology of the Spirit in Theodore of Mopsuestia |
| 3:30 PM-4:10 PM | Theological Anthropology | Kha Do | Singing the Self: Theological Anthropology, Identity-Formation, and Biblical Worship |