CDs Include:
PLENARY SESSIONS

• Barry Hawkins – Francis Shafer, Evangelical Politics, and the Changing Landscape of Church-State Studies
• J. Budziszewski – True Tolerance and the Failure of Liberal Neutrality
• Hugh Hewitt – God-Blogging: Christians in the New Public Square
• Keith Pavlischek – Just War and the War on Terrorism: Reflections of a Scholar and a Marine
• Presidential Address – Edwin M,. Yamauchi – Scripture as Talisman, Specimen, and Dragoman

• Jan van Vliet - Engaging the Mental Wars of Our Times
• Adonis Vidu - The Public Nature of Theological Meaning
• Robert D. Culver - Possibilities and Limitations for Expectation from Christian Involvement in Civil Government
• Guy R. Lockhart - Evangelistic Politics
• Myron Steeves - Christians in Caucus: Should Evangelicals Seek Consensus in the Public Square?
• Martin Culy - Do Psalmists Who Curse Belong in the Church? Understanding and Embracing the Imprecatory Psalms
• Carl Judson Davis - Where Is the Garden of Eden? A Biblical Study of Rivers and Paradise in the Bible
• Joseph R. Dodson - Powers, Personification and the Paradox of Evil in Wisdom and Romans
• Joel R. Beeke - The Transition from Continental Pietism to Evangelicalism in Theodore Frelinghuysen (1691-1747)
• Robert Clouse - Postmillennialism and America’s Global Mission
• Rodney A. Harrison - The Dead End Trail: J. M. Carroll and the Trail of Blood and Its Impact Upon Church Planting in the 21st Century
• Ryan S. Peterson - Christ and Spirit: The Theological Foundations of Justin Martyr’s Apologetic Arguments
• Bonnie Pattison - John Calvin on the Role of the Poor in the Worship of the Church: An Examination of an Un-translated Sermon on Deut. 15:11
• Diane M. Poythress - Reformation Without Revolution: Oecolampadius and the Basel City Council (1522-31) as a Test Case of struggles in Church-State Relations
• Paul R. Eddy - Remembering Jesus: Reassessing the Oral Jesus Tradition in Light of the Contemporary “Memory Boom”
• Thomas Edgar - Depravity, Regeneration, and 1 Corinthians Chapter 2
• Barry C. Joslin - Can the “Epistle to the Hebrews” Be Structured?
• Mariam Kamell - The Emergent Need for James
• Leslie Robert Keylock - Luke 1:1-4, the Synoptic Problem, and James D. G. Dunn’s “Jesus Remembered”
• Kevin D. Zuber - A Problem with Witherington’s The Problem with Evangelical Theology and Exposing Rossing’s The Rapture Exposed
• Erik Thoennes - Laughing Through Tears: The Redemptive Role of Humor in a Fallen World
• Michael Wittmer - Mr. Kuyper Goes to Washington: Does Transforming Culture Advance the Kingdom?
• Cephas T. A. Tushima - Wisdom’s Advocacy For the Poor in the Book of Proverbs
• Harold W. Hoehner - Can a Woman Be a Pastor-Teacher?
• Gregg S. Morrison - The Narrative Flow of the Gospel of Mark and Its Impact on Mark’s Purpose
• Paul Copan - God as the Best Explanation of the Evidence (and How Naturalists Help Support Theism)
• Chad Meister - Whose God? Which Rationality? Religious Diversity, Exclusivism, and some Pluralistic Options
• R. Scott Smith - A Conceptual Problem for Craig’s and Copan’s View of Properties
• Carmen J. Bryant - When Preaching Isn’t Enough: Confronting the Wife Abuser
• Stephen Huebscher - Heavenly Models for Corporate Worship: Direction for Churches
• Brett Kunkle - Essential Concerns Regarding the merging Church
• Gary A. Byers - Further Implications from Archaeology on the Sociology of Palestine’s Tenth-Century City Gates
• Donald C. McNeeley - Ho, Such a One—Let’s Conduct Some Business
• Keith N. Schoville - The Gates of Dan
• Wayne Grudem - The Bush Presidency: An Assessment of the First Six Years in the Light of Biblical Principles
• James A. Beverley - Bill Clinton’s Life and Thought: An Evangelical Assessment
• Stephen J. Nichols - Jesus on the Right Wing: Evangelicalism and Politics in America
• Randall Buth - The Literary Purpose and Linguistic Background of the Language Change at Mark 15:34, the Cry from the Cross
• A. B. Caneday - The Eschatological World Already Subjected to the Son: The Oikoumené of Hebrews 1:6 and the Son’s nthronement
• Scott Dixon - Educating Tomorrow’s Christian Thinkers within the Public Square
• Joel Harlow - What’s So Different about Teaching Online? Some Foundations of Education in the New Public Square
• Timothy P. Erdel - The Book of Ruth and Coetzee’s Age of Iron: Marginal Women and Personal Virtue Midst Moral and Political Chaos
• James A. Meek - Character Matters: The Relationship Between Character and Leadership in the Pastorals and Hellenistic Society
• Carrie A. Miles - Social Change, Value Drift, and Theological Innovation: The Case of Christianity and “Family Values”
• Kirk R. MacGregor - The Word-Faith Threat to the Substance and Popular Perception of Evangelicalism
• Mark Liederbach - Ethics in a Fallen World: A Resurrection Order Response of Worship
• Edward N. Martin - s Evil a privatio boni? Chisholming Away at Augustine’s Theory
• Sung Wook Chung - Eager to Do What Is Good: An Evangelical Theology of Good Works
• Jo Ann Davidson - Creator, Creation, and Church: Restoring Ecology to Theology
• John S. Hammett - Patterns of Leadership in Emerging Churches
• Joel Bales - The Widow, the Leptas and Its Eschatological Implication
• William D. Barker - Isaiah’s Leviathan in His Near Eastern Context
• Tim Hegg - Do the Seven, Go to Heaven? A Historical Investigation of the Noachide Laws
• R. Scott Smith - On Scientific Naturalism as the Voice of Truth in the Public Square
• Walter Schultz - Two Possible Types of ‘No-Risk’ Libertarian Freedom
• Helmuth Poggemiller - The Relevance of a Christian World-View in a Post-Modern World
• Calvin Pincombe - The Incarnation, Substance Dualism, and Physicalism: Christ as a Case Study?
• Chip M. Anderson - Widows in our Temple Courts (Mk 12:41-44): The Public Advocacy Role of the Local Congregation
• Rupert Seah Eng Chee - The Nature of Evil and Christians in the Public Square
• Keith Graham - Understanding and Practicing Forgiveness in the Public Square: A Biblical/ Theological/Pastoral Approach
• James Hamilton - The Church Militant and Her Warfare: We Are Not Another Interest Group
• Ronn Johnson - The Oneness of God: A Reassessment and Proposal
• Daniel C. Lane - Covenant Theology’s Mistaken Compound Reading of the Expression ‘And to your seed’; Implications for the Reformed Doctrine of Infant Baptism
• Dong (Shawn) Cho - Biblical Foundation of Eternal Punishment in Augustine
• Tony Chute - The Conversion of Conversionism in Baptist Life
• Dony K. Donev - The Story of the Bulgarian Bible
• C. Rebecca Rine - At the Nexus of Language and Life: Learning from the 16th Century Translation Debates
• James W. Roberts - Voicing Dissent: The Reasons for Anne Hutchinson’s Banishment from the Massachusetts Bay Colony
• H. Chris Ross - Promoting Evangelical Faith Through New Media: Lessons from the English Reformation
• Paul Ferrara - Does Romans 2:1-5 Prohibit Christians from Judging Sin?
• Justin M. Fuhrmann - The Significance of Mark 4:10-13 for Parabolic Discourse: An Epistemic Reading
• Warren Austin Gage - Intertextuality Between the Fourth Gospel and Revelation
• Lars Kierspel - The Jews in the Gospel of John
• Choo Sung Kim - God and Christ in Revelation 4-5
• Sang-Hoon Kim - An Inspiration Reading Based on the Inspirational Theories of the Bible
• Stephen S. Kim - The Christological and Eschatological Significance of Jesus’ Passover Signs in John 6
• Carl Sanders - The Problem of Premillennial Pessimism: Rethinking the Relationship Between Eschatology and Social Ethics
• Scott R. Swain - The Son as Lord and Servant: John’s Christology in Trinitarian Perspective
• Gregg Strawbridge - The Land Promise: Exegetical Evidence for a Postmillennial Reading
• John Coe - Spiritual Theology: A Methodology for Bridging the “Sanctification Gap”
• Steve L. Porter - St. Antony of Egypt versus St. John the Apostle: Spiritual Theology and the Authority of Scripture
• Michelle Lee - Intercession in Weakness: The Ministry of the Spirit in Romans 8:26-27
• Greg Peters - The Holy Spirit in Spiritual Theology: An Examination of the Sources
• Erwin L. Ochsenmeier - Political Theology, Romans 13, and the Use of the OT in Romans
• R. Larry Overstreet - The Temple of God in The Revelation Contrasted to Temples in the Public Square
• Michael Pahl - Discerning the ‘Word’: en logó Kuriou in 1 Thessalonians 4:15
• Gerald Peterman - Social Reciprocity and Gentile Debt to Jews in Romans 15:26-27
• Commentator: Jeffrey Jordan, Commentator: Douglas Minton, Commentator: J. Daryl Charles, Author and Respondent: Brendan Sweetman
• Timothy P. Erdel - “Is ‘Just War’ Still an Oxymoron?”
• Richard Davis - God and Counterpossibles
• Richard G. Howe - Thomistic Responses to Some Objections to Aquinas’ Cosmological Argument
• Walter Schultz - Why Christians Should Repudiate Rational Egoist Capitalism: Adam Smith Was Wrong!
• Michael A. Milton - Cooperation Without Compromise: Faithful Gospel Ministry in a Pluralistic Setting
• Mark M. Overstreet - God Bless the USA? The Recovery of a Theology for Patriotism and Proclamation in the Postmodern Pulpit
• Calvin Pearson - A Biblical Theology of Lifting Hands in Worship
• John Wineland - The Iron Age Gate Complex at Mudaybi, Jordan
• Ted Carruth - The Neglected Iron II Gate Installation
• Mark Wilson - The Archaeology and Sociology of the Fora/Agorai of Smyrna, Ephesus, and Miletus
• Charles White - John Wesley’s War on Poverty: An Analysis of his “Thoughts on the Present Scarcity of Provisions”
• Victor Reasoner - The Hope of a Christian World: Wesleyan Eschatology and Cultural Transformation
• Larry Smith - Holiness Personal and Public: A Wesleyan Model
• Graham Walker - Wesleyan Ethics in the Contemporary Public Square
• David M. Fouts - The Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925
• Brad Harper - The Scopes Trial, Fundamentalism, and the Creation of an Anti-Culture Culture: Can Evangelical Christians Transcend their History in the Culture Wars?
• Todd S. Beall - Christians in the Public Square: How Far Should Evangelicals Go in the Creation-Evolution Debate?
• John A. Bloom - Should Intelligent Design Be Taught in Public Schools?
• E. Calvin Beisner - Scientific Orthodoxies, Politicized Science, and Catastrophic Global Warming: Challenges to Evangelicals Navigating Rough Waters in Science and Policy
• Greg A. Couser - Prayer and the Public Square: The Contribution of 1 Tim. 2:1-7 to Christian Political Engagement
• Steven L. Cox - Was Paul Politically Correct or Culturally Sensitive: A Consideration of Acts 21:21-26
• James F. Davis - Reversing Talionic Ethics: Personal Ethics for the Public Square (Matt 5:38-42)
• Craig Engelhardt - Public Education: Where the Civic Mandate - Is Hampered by Law
• Mark Coppenger - Is “Christian Lobbyist” an Oxymoron?
• Kent D. Eilers - An Old Way Forward: Christian Engagement in the Public Arena According to Luther’s Two Kingdom’s Doctrine
• George Hancock-Stefan - Backus, Leland, Jefferson, and Madison: Religious Liberty and Separation of Church and State
• Kenneth G. Radant - “In Our Image”: Genesis 1–3 as the Original Charter of Rights and Freedoms (and Responsibilities)
• Joseph D. Wooddell - Should Christians Who Hold Public Office Compromise Their Ideals?
• Robert Dean, Jr. - Can a Christian Be Demon-Possessed?
• Norman R. Gulley - The Union of Church and State: What We Can Learn from History
• Branson Parler - The Church as Public Square: John Howard Yoder’s Augustinian Ecclesiology
• Robert Menzies - Anti-Charismatic Bias in the Chinese Union Version of the Bible
• Gordon H. Johnston - Genesis 1–2 in the Light of Ancient Egyptian Creation Myths
• Daniel M. Gurtner - A New “Strack-Billerbeck”: The Synoptic Gospels in Their Judaic Context
• Alan Kam-Yau Chan - A Test Case for an Inner- and Inter-biblical Interpretation: The Melchizedek texts in the Bible (part 2)
• Stephen E. Farish - Joel 2:12-17 as a Paradigm for God’s People to Seek His Reviving Grace
• Brian P. Gault - What Has God Placed in the Human Heart? An Exegetical Analysis of Ecclesiastes 3:11
• P. Gerard Damsteegt - An Analysis of Artaxerxes’ Letters and Its Relevance for the Chronology of Ezra 4
• J. Nathan Clayton - The Significance of David’s Expansion of the Levitical Priesthood: Revisiting the Contributions of 1 Chronicles 28:11-21
• Randall L. McKinion - Some Observations on the Composition of Genesis 37
• D. Jeffrey Mooney - The Disabled in the Ancient Near East and the Torah: Moving Toward a Suggested Theology
• Douglas Nykolaishen - The Restoration of Israel by God’s Word in Three Episodes from Ezra–Nehemiah
• Stephen Parelli - How Baptist Doctrine May Obligate the Evangelical to View Same-Sex Union as Primarily a Civil Matter and a Matter of Individual Conscience
• Andrew D. Rowell – Emerging Churches in Dialogue with Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Fresh Practical Theology of Discipleship for the Church
• Gale Heide - Finding Constantine: Evangelical Politics in the Postmodern Era
• H. Wayne House - ‘Being in the World but Not of It’: Toward a Christian Theology of Social Involvement
• Michael H. Burer - History, Literature, and Theology: Balancing Exegetical Method in the Gospels / Jay E. Smith - The Roots of a Libertine Slogan in 1 Corinthians 6:18 / Daniel B. Wallace - Preserving the Word of God: The Work of the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (CSNTM)/ Darrell L. Bock and Buist M. Fanning - Teaching Exegesis: Giving Structure to the Spiral
• W. Hall Harris III - An Out-of-this-World Experience: A Look at “Kosmos” in the Johannine Literature
• Glenn R. Kreider - Understanding Theology and Popular Culture: A Conversation with Gordon Lynch
• R. Todd Mangum - Neighbor to Niebuhr: Christ and Culture in Postmodern Perspective
• Kenneth Stewart - What Future for the Five Points of Calvinism?
• Ron Michener - Kingdom of God and Postmodern Ecclesiology: Conflicting Paradigms or Conversation Partners?
• Craig Carter - Epistemology, Violence and the Gospel: Why Evangelicals Must Reject the Enlightenment Project
• John R. Franke - Bearing Witness Without Weapons: Christian Faith in the Aftermath of Christendom
• Donald W. Mills - Not of This World: According to John, Should Believers Participate in Public Square Activities?
• Thomas Ice - A Biblical Basis for Social and Political Involvement within a Traditional Dispensational Framework
• Chris Miller - Where Are You Getting This, Paul?: The Uniqueness of Paul’s Gospel in Galatians 1–2
• Clinton E. Arnold - Paul, Artemis, and Idolatry in Ephesus
• Jordan J. Ballor - Bonhoeffer on Church and State
• Terriel Bird - Evangelical Christianity and Social Justice: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Unique Homiletical-Ecclesiological Approach
• Roger J. Green - Catherine Booth, The Salvation Army, and the Purity Crusade of 1885
• Robert F. Lay - The “Flying Squadron”: A Case Study of the Political and Rhetorical Strategies of Christian Prohibitionists
• Owen Anderson - Enlightenment Challenges to the Existence of God: The Inexcusability of Belief
• Robert Larme - Interpreting Hume on Miracles
• Francis J. Beckwith - Faith, Reason, and the Christian University: What John Paul II Can Teach Evangelicals
• Robert W. Evans - Advancements in Neuroscience: Implications for the Existence and Care of Souls / Scott B. Rae - A Theological and Christian Ethics Perspective / Eric L. Johnson - A Christian Psychology Perspective / Robert Kellerman - A Biblical Counseling Perspective / Panel Discussion with Greggo, Evans, Rae, Johnson, and Kellerman
• Page Brooks - Nailing Jello to the Wall: Comparative Islamic and Christian Definitions of Postmodernity
• Winfried Corduan - Diwali in the White House: the Bush Administration’s Gift to the Hindu Community
• David Eung-Yul Ryoo - Historical Development of the Moravian Missions and Its Pioneers
• Edwin M. Yamauchi - An Anomalous Asian-American Ancient Historian
• Dongsu Kim - Paul’s Concept of dikaiosyne¯ in Rom 1:17: A New Look from the Perspective of Athens vs. Jerusalem
• Sung Wook Chung – Importance and Necessity of Asian-American Study Group
• Russell Moore - Why Larry Flynt Is Not a Complementarian: Gender, Abuse, and Social Justice
• Ronald J. Sider - Women and Inequality Around the World: Why Do Girls Starve, Remain Illiterate, and Lack Health Care While Their Brothers Eat, Learn, and Live?
• Cynthia Long Westfall - The Holy Spirit, Ministry, and Gender: In Accordance with the Measure of Faith, or Differing Weights and Differing Measures?
• Linda L. Belleville - Lesbians in the Public Square: Confronting Socio-Biblical Fictions of the Lesbian Religious Community

• Bruce Ware - Equal in Essence, Distinct in Roles: Eternal Functional Authority and Submission among the Essentially Equal ivine Persons of the Godhead
• Millard Erickson - Eternal Subordination Within the Trinity: An Analysis and Evaluation
• Michael F. Bird – Subordination in the Trinity and Women in Ministry: A Response to Recent Discussion
• Commentator: Jean Bethke Elshtain, Greg Boyd, J. Budziszewski, Ronald J. Sider
• William Lane Craig - “Noli Me Tangere!” Why John Meier Won’t Touch the Risen Lord
• Robert Yarbrough - Reflections on My Work
• Elmer Martens - Response to Yarbrough Presentation / Frank Thielman - Response to Yarbrough Presentation
• Discussion with Hafemann, Yarbrough, Martens, and Thielman
• Andrew Nam - Against Annihilationism: A Kierkegaardian Defense of the Traditional View of Hell
• G. T. Smith - Why Does Theology Matter to Politics? Christian Anthropology and Political Science
• C. Donald Smedley - Christianity, Human Rights, and Public Policy
• James Spiegel - Good Knowers: Why Personal Virtue Is a Pre-requisite for Wisdom and Understanding
• Jay Richards – Don’t Just Care. Think: Fallacies Christians Believe about Wealth and Poverty
• George M. Coon - Practicing the Theology of Evangelical Social Concern: Paul B. Henry as a Remedy for His Father’s Uneasy Conscience
• Guenther (Gene) Haas - Justice in the Public Square: What Should Christians Expect to Achieve?
• James McCullough - Culture, Society, and Christ: Max L. Stackhouse and the Promise of Public Theology
• Dan Wilson - The Secret of Messianic Secrecy
• Robert L. Thomas - The Effect of Replacement Theologies on U. S. Foreign Policy
• Daniel Streett - “As it was in the Days of Noah”: Flood Typology, the Use of the Old Testament and Eschatological Expectation in Enoch and the New Testament
• Bob Wilkin - Has the Definition of Verbal Plenary Inspiration Changed?
• Rob Caldwell Jonathan Edwards on Becoming a Minister of the Gospel
• John Carrick - Edwards in the Hands of English Professors
• Peter Beck The Voice of Faith: Jonathan Edwards’s Theology of Prayer
• David W. Hall - Calvin’s Disciples in the Public Square, 1540-1600 and Beyond
• Gary T. Meadors - Paul, the Gospel and the Public Square: Revisiting Acts 17:16-34 in Its Judaeo-Christian Context
• Paul Oslington - Economic Language in the Scriptures
• Stewart Pattison - The Lord Is My Shepherd: The 23rd Psalm in Mark 6:30-44
• Doug Vardell - Hope in the Apocalypse of the Sons and Daughters of God
• Glenn Peoples - Theo Ethical Equilibrium?
• Geoffrey Holt - C.S. Lewis: On the Mind
• Brent R. Kelly - The Danger of a Postmodern Apologetic in the Church
• Stewart Kelly - Flesh on the Bones: Metaconsiderations and Critical Realism
• Ronald N. Frost - Aristotelian Anthropology and Melanchthon’s Shift on Free Will
• Brad Green - Knowledge, the Gospel, and the Ethical Life
• Paul Kjoss Helseth - “Right Reason” and the Public Accessibility of Truth
• Kenneth Keathley - Flat or Round? The Sixth Century Debate Between Cosmas and Philoponus over the Shape of the Earth
• Monte Shanks - Papias Versus Constantine: Eusebius’s Marginalization of an Important Apostolic Father
• Christopher W. Skinner - The Relationship of the Gospel of Thomas to the Fourth Gospel: An Appraisal of the Community Conflict Hypothesis
• Dennis M. Swanson - Charles H. Spurgeon and the Ministries of the Metropolitan Tabernacle: A Model for Evangelical Action
• James Taylor - Salvation History and Sanctification in the Dispensations of John Fletcher
• Ben Gladd - The Polemical Nature of the Danielic Mystery and Paul’s Use of It in 1 Cor 1-2
• Timothy Gombis - Transforming the Body: Salvation as Restoration to the Proper Use of the Body in Romans
• Paul Hartog - Philippians 2:12-13, Corporate and Common Soteria, and the Apostolic Fathers
• Joe Hellerman - Jesus as an Ethnic Entrepreneur
• Samuel Lamerson - Christ, Culture, and Comedy: Jesus’ Use of the Comic Genre to Attack the Political and Religious Leaders of His Day
• Brian Larsen - Waiting for Godot and the Healing at the Pool (John 5:1-15): Literature, the Bible, and Theology in the Public Square
• Bryan Lee - The Radical Resistance of Love in Romans 13
• Larry Lichtenwalter - The Ethics of the Apocalypse: Method, Context, Contours
• Robert Singer - Textual Clues to the Chronology of Matthew 8:2–13:58
• S. Aaron Son - The Church as ‘One New Man’: Ecclesiology and Anthropology in Ephesians
• Philip Y. Spears - What Will We Look Like When We Get To Heaven? The Nature Of The Resurrected Body In 1 Corinthians 15:35-58
• Preston Sprinkle - Paul and the Law: The Use of Leviticus 18:5 in Romans 9:30–10:8
• Kenneth G. Radant - Are Our ‘Lifekeys’ the Right SHAPE for our ‘Network’?: A Theological Assessment of Recent Trends in ‘Spiritual Gift’ Teaching
• John Shouse - Voicing the Mystery: Eberhard Jüngel and Theo-Dramatic Theology
• Gary L. Shultz Jr. - God’s Purposes in the Atonement for the Non-Elect
• Andy Snider - Meaning and Metaphor: Letting the Bible Speak about Divine (Im)possibility
• Eddie N. Colanter - Blue Like Christians: What Can Be Learned from Donald Miller’s popular book Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality Regarding Apologetics and Bioethics in the Public Square
• Robert M. Frazier - Augustine’s Public Philosophy: An Analysis of Power
• Gary Elkins - Just War Theory and the Culture Wars
• John Mark Reynolds - A Brief Defense of ‘Constantinianism’
• Catherine Clark Kroeger – Domestic Violence: When Something Very Private Goes Public
• Jerry L. Eisley – Always Winter? C. S. Lewis and Hope for the Visual Arts
• Lanette Ruff, Nancy Nason-Clark, Barbara Fisher-Townsend – The RAVE Project (Religion and Violence e-Learning): Reaching Pastors On-Line with Resources Against Domestic Violence
• Nathaniel Samuel Murrell - If Hammurabi Was a Source for the “Ten Commandments” Would the Decalogue Matter in Our Public Discourse?
• Bernie A. Van De Walle - How High of a Christian Life?: Late-Nineteenth Century Evangelical Doctrines of Sanctification and the Classic Doctrine of Theosis
• Carl Mosser - Deification, Theosis, and Divinization: Some Distinctions and Clarifications
• Alan W. Gomes - The Rapture of the Christ: The ‘Pre-Ascension Ascension’ of Jesus in the Theology of Faustus Socinus (1539- 1604)
• Christopher A. Graham - The Virtue Which Has Covered the Heavens: Gregory of Nyssa’s Incorporation of the Minor Prophets in His Homiletical Calls for Justice
• Jason DeRouchie - Numbering the Decalogue: A Textlinguistic Reappraisal
• Daniel I. Block - “You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife”: A Study in Deuteronomic Domestic Ideology
• Michael S. Heiser - You’ve Seen One elohim, You’ve Seen Them All? A Critique of Mormonism’s Apologetic Use of Psalm 82
• Hee Suk Kim - A Theological Duet: To Read Proverbs 1–9 in Its Two Hermeneutical Levels
• Benjamin Shaw - Inspiration and Incarnation: A Response to Peter Enns
• Michelle A. Stinson - Turning Tables and Musical Chairs: le Reversals and Situational Irony at Divine-Human Meals
• Andrew J. Schmutzer - The Theological Significance of the Creation Mandate in Gen 1–11
• Keith E. Johnson - Does Creation Reveal the Triunity of God? Augustine on the Vestigia Trinitatis
• Brian C. Labosier - Hyper-Preterism: An Old Error in a New Form
• Robert C. Kurka - Aiming In the Wrong Direction: Why Historic Evangelicalism IS NOT to Be Equated with Modernity (or Can Postmodern Evangelical Theologians Get Over Kant?)
• Dennis W. Jowers - Karl Rahner’s Version of the Psychological Analogy of the Trinity
• Greg Trull - Laying Hold of Wisdom: Application from Proverbs Without Overpromising or Undermining / Forrest Weiland - Biblical/Theological Arguments that Lend Support to E.D. Hirsch’s Original Claim Regarding Objective Hermeneutics / James S. Reitman, II - “Words of Truth” and “Words of Purpose” —Insights into Authorial Intent from Ecclesiastes 12:9-14 / Respondents: Richard Averbeck, Craig Blomberg (2 CDs $12)
• Eric C. Redmond - Paul’s Haircut and the Million Man March: Meaning, Significance, and Public Square Theology in Acts 21
• Jeff Green - Evangelicals and the Buildings They Build
• Gary Habermas - Historical Rivals of Jesus? An Evaluation of Apollonius of Tyana and Sabbatai Sevi
• Eduardo J. Echeverria - Integral Humanism: Toward a New Christendom
• Verlyn D. Verbrugge - Paul as Pastor: Can You Serve as a Pastor from a Distance?
• Steve L. Porter - The Sanctification Gap Revisited
• William C. Crouse - Noah’s Ark: Where Did It Land According to the Most Ancient Authorities and Has It Been Found?
• Bryant G. Wood - Who Were the Genesis Philistines? The Minoan Connection
• Charles Aling - Egyptian Medicine and the Bible Part 2
• Gene C. Fant - Finding the Truth in Ruth: Why Genre Criticism Matters
• Daniel Estes - Entering the Garden of Intimacy: A Poetic Reading of Song of Songs 4:8–5:1
• Tremper Longman - The Literary Approach to the Bible: Promises and Pitfalls at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century
• Publishers’ Panel - Allan Fisher, Stan Gundry, Jim Kinney, Dan Reid
• Joe M. Sprinkle - How Should the Old Testament Civil Laws Apply Today?
• Craig A. Stern - Biblical Limits on the Role of Civil Government
• Stephen Grabill - Evangelical Public Theology and Natural Law: Rediscovering the Theological Resources of the Reformation
• Robert Michael Allen - Natural Reason and Law-Making: Thomas Aquinas, Transcendence, and the Theological Limits of Reason
• Daniel R. Heimbach - Rethinking Natural Law
• Adam Greenway - How Should We Then Witness?: A Plea for Reexamining Evangelical Evangelistic Practice in Light of the Concept of Worldview
• Daryl McCarthy - Christian Scholars—Moving from Insular Myopia to Global Vision
• John Warwick Montgomery - Evangelism, Proselytism and Human Rights in International Context
• Gerald A. Klingbeil - The Prophetic Voice of Amos as a Paradigm for Christians in the Public Square
• Miroslav Kiš - Biblical Models of Church and Society Relations
• John Graz - The Church in the Public Square: Public Activity and Public Image
• William D. Henard - The Spiritual Sense of Scripture: The Hermeneutical Method of Jonathan Edwards
• Brian Toews - Creational Versus Technological Worldviews in Biblical Interpretation
• Mark Alan Bowald - Rendering God’s Word: Overcoming Deistic Tendencies in Modern Evangelical Hermeneutics
• Kevin Giles - The Father and the Son Differentiated or Undifferentiated in Power and Authority?
• Fred Sanders - As Above, So Below: Appeals to the Trinity in Theological Accounts of the Human Family
• Gary Deddo - Why We’re Gendered Beings: A Trinitarian Perspective
• EPS PLENARY SESSION: Trenton Merricks* - Grounding and Subjunctive Conditionals: A Defense of God’s Middle-Knowledge, Among Other Things
• Main Presenter: W. Ed Glenny / Responder: Rodney Decker / General Discussion: Q&A)
• B. Ward Powers - The Progressive Publication of Matthew’s Gospel
• Maurice A. Robinson - The Byzantine Text of Codex Washingtonianus: A Centennial Retrospect
• Halvor Ronning - The Synoptic Problem in the Public Square: The Pastoral Significance of the Synoptic Problem
• D. Eric Schansberg - Turn Neither to the Right nor to the Left: A Consistent Christian Philosophy of Government
• Dennis P. Hollinger - Christian Ethics, Pastoral Care, and Public Policy: Salient Distinctions for Addressing Homosexuality
• William J. Webb - Evangelical Reflection on the Holy War Texts: Are We Ready for the Public Square?
• Thomas P. Arnold - Genesis 1:1—Title 22mmarizing 1:2-31 or Ex Nihilo Creation Before 1:2-31
• Paul Wegner - Where Do We Go When We Die?—The Biblical Concept of Afterlife: Sheol? Hades? Paradise?
• Douglas Kennard - Melchizedek: Biblically (Genesis, Psalms, Hebrews) and Second Temple (Genesis Apocryphon, The Vision of Amran, 11Q13, Midrash, Targums, 2 Enoch, Josephus, Philo, and miscellaneous references)
• Karla Poewe - Liberal Theology and the Creation of National Socialism* Invited Guest
• Richard Pierard - Why Did German Protestants Welcome Hitler’s Accession to Power?
• Craig V. Mitchell - Compatibility Between Theories of Truth and Theories of Knowledge
• Joel White - Identifying Allusions to the Old Testament in New Testament Texts
• William N. Wilder - The Use (or Abuse) of Power in High Places: Paul’s Account of Gift-giving in Eph 4:8 and Ps 68
• Radu Gheorghita - The Influence of the Septuagint on the New Testament: Toward a More Objective Assessment
• William A. Heth - Demonization Then and Now: How Contemporary Cases Fill in the Biblical Data
• Douglas S. Huffman - THE Christian Worldview or Multiple Christian Worldviews?
• Henry Krabbendam - Biblical Apologetics and Its Societal Implications: The Need for a Radical Paradigm Shift
• John Makujina - The Sins of Scripture by John Shelby Spong: A Critique
• David Kim - How Should Christians Promote Public Peace?: An Examination of Augustine’s Understanding of the Relationship Between “Heavenly City” and “Earthly Peace”
• Cameron A. MacKenzie - Martin Luther in the Public Square
• Jonathan L. Master - A Puritan in the Public Square: Anthony Burgess’ Sermons to Parliament
• Timothy M. McAlhaney - Defining Via Media: Elizabeth I and John Henry Newman
• Timothy C. Tennent - Chalcedonian Christology “From Above” Meets African Christology “From Below” – Have We Finally Found Way to Integrate the Person and Work of Christ in our Christologies?
• J. Brian Tucker - The Role of Civic Identity on the Pauline Mission in Corinth
• Jakob van Bruggen - Whose Public Square?: Paul’s Message to Roman Christians
• David Hutchinson - “Son of God” in Mark 1:1: An Anti-Adoptionistic Corruption of Scripture?
• R. Gregory Jenks - Moses’ Reluctant Response to Israel’s Hard Hearts in 2 Corinthians 3:12-18
• David W. Jones - The Betrothal View Revisited
• Fredrick J. Long - Benefaction, Body Building, and Battle: A Political Theory for the Church in Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians
• Greg MaGee - Inferential Conjunctions and the Logic of Paul’s Argument in Rom 2:1
• Roland L. McMillan - Narrative Criticism, Social-Science Criticism, and Foot Washing: John 13:1-5 as a Test Case for a Combined Methodology
• Edward P. Meadors - Idolatry and the Hardening of the Heart in Romans 9-11
• L. Timothy Swinson - Textual Criticism and Authorship Traditions: An Examination of the Superscriptions in 1 and 2 Timothy
• John W. Taylor – So That We (Jews) Might Receive the Promise of the Spirit: The Mutual Interdependence of the Eschatological Blessing of Jews and Gentiles in Galatians
• Fred von Kamecke - The Nature of the Warning in Hebrews 6: Genuine Believers in Genuine Peril
• Geoff Ziegler - Scripture as Divine Gospel Proclamation
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• Rustin J. Umstattd - Fire of God: The Role of the Holy Spirit in Judgment
• Earl Waggoner - Here’s the Church, Here’s the People, Where’s the Steeple?: Toward a House Church Ecclesiology
• Joyce Miriam Brooks - A Study of Biblical Principles Relevant to Governmental Systems
• Jeremy Cheek - Who Knows What YHWH Will Do? Rhetoric of Hope or Loss of Faith in the Character of God? ___ EV06363 Robert B. Chisholm, Jr. - What’s Wrong with This Picture? Stylistic Variation as a Rhetorical Technique in Judges
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• Robert W. Evans - Empty Pedestals in the Public Square: The Effects of Major Shifts in Culture
• Cky John Carrigan - Missing Christology?: The Da Vinci Code and the Mormon Code of a Sexually Active Jesus
• T. Van McClain - True Lies: The Truth About Lying
• Don Williams - “The Mind Is Its Own Place”: Satan’s Philosophy and the Modern Dilemma
• William David Spencer - Athanasius’ Use of TAXIS (‘rank’ or ‘order’)
• Aida Besancon Spencer - Parallelomania and God’s Unique Revelation
• Richard W. Bishop - Render the Basilica unto Caesar? Ambrose of Milan on Church and Empire / Response: Glen L. Thompson, Paul Hartog - Calls for Religious Liberty in the Early Church / Response: A. J. Smith / Bryan A. Stewart - Rulers of the Divine Nation: Christian Leadership within Origen’s Religio-political Ecclesiology / Response: George J. Sawyer - Vindicating Blood in the Roman Public Square: The Seminal Patristic Contribution of the Early Third Century / Response: Bryan Litfin
• Paul J. Kissling - Genesis on Violence: A Reader’s Guide for the Canon
• Sheri L. Klouda - Old Testament Intertextuality as a Paradigm for a Pre-Biblical Theology
• The Crossway Lecture: John Piper - William Tyndale and the Vernacular Bible
• Tony L. Shetter - Genesis 1–2 in Light of Ancient Egyptian Creation Myths
• Kenneth W. Shoemaker - The Psalmists’ Invitation to the Nations: Expectations, Consequences, and Implications
• Jay Sklar - Verbs for Purification, Consecration, and Atonement: Is There a Difference?
• Gary V. Smith - Could Isaiah 41 Come from an Assyrian Setting?
• Douglas K. Matthews - Eschatological Holiness: Recovering the X-factor in Personal and Social Holiness
• Paul Louis Metzger - Mutuality and Particularity: The Contours of Authentic Dialogue
• Chris Morgan - Inclusivism and Its Forms: Recent Developments
• Stephen K. Moroney - God’s Judgment: A Kerygmatic Oversight in the Public Square?
• Craig Blomberg - Jesus’ Mission to His Jewish Contemporary / Darrell L. Bock - Jesus’ Mission to Gentiles / William J. Larkin - The Mission of the Twelve and Other Disciples in the Synoptic Gospels / Respondent: Eckhard J. Schnabel / Panel Discussion: Schnabel, Blomberg, Bock, Larkin, and Capshaw / General Discussion
• R. Douglas Geivett - Christian Philosophy of Mind and the Explanatory Gap
• James B. DeYoung - Veils, the Subordination of Women, and Roles in Christian Ministry
• Judy TenElshof - The Contribution of the Value Scale to Gender Inequalities
• Dorothy Patterson, Candi Finch - Deborah’s Ministry in the Public Square: How Egalitarians and Complementarians Deal with the Ministry of the Prophetess
• Clyde Billington - The Exodus Giants
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• Ralph K. Hawkins - Mt. Ebal: Twenty Years of Interpretation and Assessment
• Terry Hofecker - The Tanit and Elissa Deep Water Iron Age Shipwrecks off Ashkelon and the Prophet Jonah
• Introduction: Kurt Anders Richardson / Discussants: Craig Carter, J. Denny Weaver, Travis Kroeker,Vincent Bacote, Elaine Padilla Tallman
• Peter Enns - Preliminary Observations on the Incarnational Nature of Scripture
• Richard Averbeck - Compositional and Theological Implications for the Pentateuch from the Early History of the Hebrew Language
• Richard Schultz - Theological Diversity and the “Messiness” of Scripture: Peter Enns and Divine Accommodation in the Old Testament
• Lane Tipton - Reflections on Inspiration and Incarnation in Reformed Systematic Theological Perspective
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• Kenneth Magnuson - Private Choices, Public Consequences, and Evangelical Engagement: The Gospel and the Ethics of Assisted Reproduction
• Michael J. Balboni - The Ecclesiological Problem of Secular Medicine: Why the Church Must Reclaim the Medical Arts
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• Melissa Tatro - Interfaith Dialogue: Postmodernism and Engaging Islam
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• Bert B. Beach - Should the Christian Mission Focus on Salvation or Society?
• John C. Peckham - An Investigation of Luther’s View of the Bondage of the Will with Implications for Soteriology and Theodicy
• Jason S. Sexton - A Comparison of Emerging Church Hermeneutics with those of the Literal- Historical-Grammatical Method
• Kevin Diller – Are Sin and Evil Necessary for a Really Good World? Can We Accept Plantinga’s Solution to the Problem of Suffering and Evil
• Michael Austin – Virtue in a Naturalistic Vise: Theism, Naturalism, and the Good Life of Virtue

• Commentator: Richard Land, Commentator: Richard Ostling, Commentator: Janet Parshall, Commentator: Jeanmarie Condon
• Commentator: Jean Bethke Elshtain*, Commentator: Greg Boyd, Commentator: James Turner Johnson*, Commentator: TBA
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• Brian A. Bompiani - Genesis 24: A Problem for Source Criticism?
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• Michael A. Harbin - Heaven in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
• John L. Ronning - “Caiaphas Prophecies” in the Targums
• Bruce P. Baugus - The MA and PA Case for the De-Christianization of Society: The Lynn White Thesis Revisited
• Eckhard J. Schnabel - Jewish Opposition to Jewish Christian Communities in Asia Minor
• Steven Fine - “For His Love Endures Eternally”: Archaeological and Literary Evidence for Jewish Life in Asia Minor in Late Antiquity
• Jay Grimstead and Eugene Clingman - Education of Christian Children
• Jonathan M. Watt, Sarah L. Fairfield - What Can Educational Linguistics Offer Religious Organizations?
• Don Garlington - The Obedience of Faith and the New Perspectives on Paul: An Examination of Texts from Romans 1–5
• Andrew Das - Beyond “The New Perspective”
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• David L. Puckett - Wilberforce and Prison Reform
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• J. Kameron Carter – Asceticism, Poverty and Wealth: Towards a Theology of Abundance / Respondent: Malinda Berry
• Shane Claiborn – The Economics of Rebirth
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• Jeffrey Lehn - “Pay Attention To What Has Been Written”: Scripture and Communal Ethics in 2 Clement
• Glen L. Thompson, Jeremy Zima - The Fourth Century in Cyber Space: New Internet Resources
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• John C. Wecks - Biblical Guidelines for a Church Leader Emerging from the Public Square: But I Could Be Wrong
• Michael Wilson - Think Outside the Box – Stay inside the Book: A Look at Metanoia in the Contrarian Leadership of Jesus
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• Richard A. Burridge - Biography, “Jesus Books,” and Devotion to Jesus Paul Owen - The Synoptic Gospels and Devotion to Jesus in Lord Jesus Christ / Scot McKnight - “There Is Only One Who Is Good”: Matthew and the Development of Christology within Monotheistic Judaism / Respondent: Larry Hurtado / Panel Discussion: Hurtado, Burridge, Owen, and McKnight / General Discussion
• Steven Runge - What Difference Does It Make if NT Greek Has a Default Word Order or Not?
• Eckhard J. Schnabel - “All Things to All People” (1 Cor 9:22): Truth and Tactics in Paul’s Missionary Ministry
• Ryan S. Peterson - Ante-Nicene imago Dei Interpretations: Theological Implications, Criteria and Direction
• Jay Smith - Irenic Evangelicalism in the Public Square: Stanley J. Grenz and the Public Character of Theology
• R. Alan Streett - George Bush’s America and the Kingdom of God
• Kenneth Turner - When Does God Circumcise the Heart in Israel’s Restoration from Exile? Deuteronomy 30:1-10 and Its Implications for the Christian Doctrine of Salvation
• Panel Discussion: Evangelical Theology and the Foundationalism vs. Non/post-foundationalism Debate - Commentator: John R. Franke, R. Scott Smith, Ryan S. Peterson (2 CDs $12)
• Peter Kraslawsky - Religion and Morality in Kant: Against the Traditional Reductivist View
• Craig V. Mitchell - The Problem with Aesthetics
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• Mimi Haddad - Ontology, Gender and Authority in the Church: A Historical Overview
• H. Wayne House - Does Submission Relate to Headship?: A Response to “Bridging the Ephesians 5 Divide” by Sarah Sumner
• Marcus Smith - The Ethics of Influence: Regaining a Voice in the Public Square
• Clark H. Pinnock - God’s Spirit in An Age of Scientific Cosmology
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• John Douglas Morrison – To Assassinate or Not to Assassinate? Modern Tyranny, Theology and Ethical Decision in the Life and Thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (with Comparison to Karl Barth): An Experimental Inquiry
• Adamson Co - Rehabilitating H. Richard Niebuhr’s Five Typologies in Christ and Culture: A ‘Multi-Perspectival’ Modification to Guide Christians in the Public Square
• Ronald T. Clutter - The Demise of a Doctrine ‘Clearly Presented in the New Testament’: Grace Brethren and Nonresistance
• William H. Shea - The Location of the Crucifixion and Resurrection
• Gordon Franz - Unexpected Visit: Paul and Luke on the Island of Malta
• David W. Chapman - 2006 Excavations at Abila of the Decapolis
• Maurice Harton - The Grandeur of Holiness: The Great Temples and Becoming Roman in the Near East
• Kevin Giles - The Seven Pillars of the Post-70’s Case for the Permanent Subordination of Women
• Steve Tracy - What Does “Submit in Everything” Really Mean? The Nature and Scope of Marital Submission
• Mark Jensen - What Role Should Christian Institutions Play in Democratic Civil Society?
• R. J. Snell - Following Tireaias: How Evangelical Discussions of Postmodernity Go Wrong (And Thus Go On Forever)
• Steve Cowan - Molinism, Christian Belief, Luck evangeliCal philosophical
• William D. Dennison - What’s So Special About Natural Revelation?
• Paul Boling - Animals, the Fall, and Pain
• Todd Bates - Point of Contact: Cultural Engagement and Apologetics
• Glen Shellrude - The Structure of Revelation 6–19
• Tim Anderson - Intimacy: How Scriptural Themes and Parameters Should Shape It
• Douglas A. Blanc - Spirit Baptism and the Case for Non-Cessationism: A Consideration of the Continuity-Discontinuity Debate
• Gerry Breshears - Why Do So Many Want to Be ‘Calminian?’
• Frank Chan - The Apostleship of Jesus as the Basis for Redefining Apostleship Along Non- Cessationist Lines
• Michael L. Chiavone – A Critical Analysis of Millard Erickson’s Doctrine of Trinitarian Unity
• Michael Lyons - From Law to Prophecy: Ezekiel’s Use of Leviticus 17–26
• Andrew Teeter - Isaiah and the King of (As)Syria in Daniel 8–11
• Kent A. Reynolds - Unique Usage of Traditional Religious Language in Psalm 119
• James R. Wicker - Baby, Won’t You Light My Menorah? An Evangelical Assessment of Hanukkah
• Todd Wilson - Suffering and Sonship: Paul’s Use of Wilderness Traditions in Romans
• Mike McDowell - Does Curiosity Kill the Cat/Soul?: Practical Implications of Augustine’s Denouncement of Curiosity for Soul Formation
• James R. Mook - The Forgotten Bryan: The Progressive Conservative
• Michael B. McDuffee - Why Kant? Why Not Hamann? A Case Study in the Evangelical Tradition of Telling the Story of Modern Historical Theology
• John E. McKinley - Four Basic Models of Christ’s Impeccability and Temptation
• Vern S. Poythress - Redeeming Physics: Biblical-Theological Resources for a God-Centered Approach
• Jason Benjamin Oakes - Descartes’ Theory of Revelation and Holy Scripture
• Michael F. Bird - Meeting the New Perspective Half-Way: Jew-Gentile Relationships and Justification by Faith in Paul
• Denny Burk - The “Fresh Perspective” on Paul: A Theology of Anti-Americanism
• Anthony B. Bradley - Beyond Bono and Jim Wallis: Politics and Economics For Post-Conservative Social Justice
• C. Everett Berry - How Did the Post-Apostolic Church Respond to the Government?: Gleaning Do’s and Don’ts from the 2nd Century Apologists
• Timoteo D. Gener - With/Beyond Tracy: Revisioning Public Theology
• Stephen L. Dolson-Andrew - A Firm Reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence: An Approach to Christian Ethics and the American Founding
• Gerald Figurelli – The Demise of Common Sense: Religion, Specialization, and Secularity in Post-bellum America