This year, more than 45 students and faculty from Southern Seminary and Boyce College will present papers at the 76th annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, held in San Diego, CA.
ETS 2024 Southern Baptist Theological Seminary &
Boyce College Participants
Boyce College Participants
Wednesday, November 20th
| Time | Session | Presenter | Paper Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30 AM- 8:55 AM | American Christianity | Matthew Haste | The Making of Global Evangelicalism: Transatlantic Discipleship during the Great Awakening |
| 8:30 AM- 9:10 AM | Baptist Studies | John Wilsey | Revering the Tradition of America’s Two Spirits |
| 8:30 AM- 9:10 AM | Global Evangelism | Tim Beougher | John R.W. Stott: A Key Leader in the 20th Century Expanse of Global Evangelicalism |
| 8:30 AM- 9:10 AM | Systematic Theology | Robert G. Lyon | The Holy Spirit as the Perfector of Divine Judgment with Implications for the Atonement |
| 9:20 AM- 10:00 AM | Biblical Theology | Thomas Sculthorpe | ‘The Nazirite Forerunner and Birth From Barrenness: Typology or Narrative Analogy? |
| 9:20 AM- 10:00 AM | Global Evangelism | Heidi Herberich Dean | ‘Bavinck on Archetypes: A Reformed Response to Orthodoxy’s Jonathan Pageau and Timothy Patitsas |
| 9:20 AM- 10:00 AM | Practical Theology | George Scondras | Apologetical Fiction: Stories As Christian Witness in a Postmodern Context |
| 11:00 AM- 11:25 AM | American Christianity | John Paul Arceno | Towards Filipinization: A Southern Baptist Story in the Philippines |
| 11:00 AM- 11:40 AM | General Epistles | Tom Schreiner | Revelation 20 and The Milennium: A New Creation Model |
| 11:00AM- 11:40 AM | Scriptural Use of Scripture | Paul Lamicela | The “Angels Who Sinned” as a “Dynamic Analogy” in 2 Peter |
| 11:00 AM- 11:40 AM | New Testament | Drake Isabell | Paraclete and Prophetic Spirit: The Holy Spirit as Witness in the Fourth Gospel and Apocalypse |
| 11:00 AM- 11:40 AM | Lutheran Studies | Brian Vickers | Law-Gospel: The Missing Link in Evangelical Hermeneutics |
| 1:00 PM- 1:30 PM | Christianity and Islam: History and Texts | Devon Provencher | Testimonia in Christian Texts During the Rise of Islam: An Unexpected Apologetic Tool |
| 1:50 PM- 2:30 PM | Old Testament | John J. Baker | Beyond the War Oracle: Interpreting the OAN as Formulaic Encouragement for Israel |
| 2:20 PM- 2:50 PM | Christianity and Islam: History and Texts | Ayman Ibrahim | Forging a Favored History: Competing Muslim Narratives on awwal man aslam |
| 2:40 PM- 3:20 PM | The Doctrince of Scripture | Matthew Bekken | Etymology and the Meaning of Θεόπνευστος in 2 Timothy 3:16 |
| 2:40 PM- 3:20 PM | Church History | Barry Evans | Confessions and Concessions: Bunyan, Baptist Identity, and Boundaries of Communion |
| 3:00 PM- 3:30 PM | Christianity and Islam: History and Texts | Ali Mati | John of Damascus Approach to Islam: Critical Insights for Today’s Church |
Thursday, November 21st
| Time | Session | Presenter | Paper Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30 AM- 8:55 AM | “Gender as Love”: Dialoguing with Fellipe Do Vale | Gregg Allison | Complementarity in Dialog with Gender as Love |
| 8:30 AM- 9:10 AM | New Testament | Kaspars Ozolins | Isaiah’s Third “Servant Song” as a Background to Hebrews 1:10-12 |
| 8:30 AM- 9:10 AM | Old Testament | Duane Garrett | Reconsidering the Colometry of the Psalms |
| 8:40 AM- 9:05 AM | American Christianity | Greg Wills | Frank Rawlinson, Southern Baptists, and Missionary Modernism |
| 10:10AM- 10:50 AM | Johannie Literature | Jim Hamilton | Johannine Literature |
| 10:10AM- 10:50 AM | Systematic Theology | Samantha M.S. Cheng | Salvation Acquired and Applied: A Response to Sarah Coakley’s Incorporative Model of the Trinity |
| 11:00AM- 11:40 AM | Public Theology | Michael Carlino | ‘From Babel to Pentecost & Beyond: A Biblical-Theological Response to Stephen Wolfe’s Nationalism |
| 3:00 PM- 3:40 PM | Church History | Hannah Turrill | “The Same Sadness We Know”: Grief and Suffering in Augustine’s Expositions of the Psalms |
| 3:50 PM- 4:30 PM | Gospel of Matthew | Jonathan Pennington | The Gospel of Matthew in Its Greco-Roman Context |
| 3:50 PM- 4:30 PM | Biblical Worship | Matthew Westerholm | How Does the Lord’s Supper…Work? Reclaiming the Beauty of the “Ordinance” |
| 3:50 PM- 4:30 PM | Church History | Thomas Holsteen | Augustine’s Correspondence with Licentius: Rhetoric and Evangelism in the Late 4th Century |
| 3:50 PM- 4:30 PM | Systematic Theology | Kyle Claunch | Inseparable Operations of the Trinity and the Divine Son’s Human Experience of the Spirit |
| 4:20 PM- 4:50 PM | Biblical Theology | Jim Hamilton | Return of the Kingdom and New Testament Theology |
| 5:30 PM- 6:10 PM | Septuagint Studies | Robert L. Plummer | Supplementary Participles in the LXX: Understanding a Common Participial Usage |
Southern Seminary ETS
Late Night
Thursday, November 21
9:15 PM – Midnight
San Diego Marriott Marquis
San Diego Ballroom B
Friday, November 22nd
| Time | Session | Presenter | Paper Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30 AM- 9:10 AM | Systematic Theology | Benjamin J. Robin | A Dogmatic Model of Natural Theology in the Thought of Herman Bavinck |
| 8:30 AM- 9:10 AM | Church History | Logan Prettyman | East to West: A Comparison of Irenaeus and Athanasius on the Atonement |
| 8:30 AM- 9:10 AM | Church History | Michael Haykin | “I found a sweetness in the service of God”: The Affective Piety of Brilliana Harley |
| 9:20 AM- 10:00 AM | Global Evangelicalism | Anthony S. G. Baldwin | Evangelicals in Persia 1811-1911: The Legacy of Henry Martyn |
| 9:20 AM- 10:00 AM | Hebrew Language | Peter J. Gentry | Book Review: John A. Cook, The Biblical Hebrew Verb |
| 10:10AM- 10:50 AM | Global Evangelicalism | Christopher D. Neal | To All the Nations: The Role of Missions in Changing Views of Race in the SBC |
| 10:10 AM- 10:50 AM | Church History | Adam Peterson | This Country is as Much Ours: Nineteenth-Century Black Christians and American Nationality |
| 11:00 AM- 11:40 AM | Old Testament Backgrounds/ Ancient Near East | Kaspars Ozolins | Observations on the Doctrine of Scripture in Light of Biblical Hebrew Diachrony |
| 2:00 PM- 2:40 PM | Christianity and Culture | Timothy Paul Jones | ‘Ecclesial Apologetics: The Church as Argument for Christianity in the Second-Century Apologists |
| 2:00 PM- 2:40 PM | Church History | Hunter Hindsman | ‘Retrieving Justin Martyr for a Theology of Religions? An Evaluative Critique of a Recent Trend |
| 2:50 PM- 3:30 PM | Global Evangelicalism | Ali Mati | ‘Body-Soul Relationship: Examining Dualistic-Holism Approach in Healing and Wholeness |
| 3:40 PM- 4:20 PM | Global Evangelicalism | Dustin B. Bruce | “A Strong Personal Attachment”: Christopher Anderson’s Advocacy of the Serampore Mission |
| 3:40 PM- 4:20 PM | Church History | Terry Michael Wise | Swimming against the Tide: The Evangelistic Conversion of Orestes Brownson to Catholicism |
| 3:40PM- 4:20 PM | Church History | Nathan Parsons | Richard Hooker and William Perkins on the Nature and Obligations of the Christian Minister |
| 3:40 PM- 4:20 PM | Practical Theology | Cephas Bahago | Dualistic Wholism: A Theological Anthropological Construct for Dissociative Disorders |
| 4:30 PM- 5:10 PM | Practical Theology | Laura-Lee Alford | A Sacrifice to Make Things Right: Christ’s Atonement and the Struggles of OCD |
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