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CDs Include:
PLENARY SESSIONS
- Kelly M. Kapic - The Incarnation and Christian Existence: The Humiliation of the Name
- Timothy C. Tennent - Post-Modernity, the Paradigm and the Pre-Eminence of Christ
- Darrell L. Bock - On Entitlement, Grace, Salvation and Jesus the Only Way: A Look at Key New Testament Texts and the Theological Assumptions behind the Gospel
- Presidential Address: Clinton E. Arnold - Sceva, Solomon, and Shamanism. The Jewish Roots of the Problem at Colossae
PARALLEL SESSIONS A/B
Evangelical Philosophical Society A-1
Moderator: Timothy Yoder
- Todd Bates - Virtue Epistemology as Apologetic: Phronesis and the 'Virtue' of Seeing Truth
- W. Paul Franks - Original Sin as a Defeater for the Free Will Defense
- James Bruce - The Conspiracy of Vices
- Jim A. Stewart - Humiliatin Hume: A Concise Way to Force Humeans and New-Humeans to Wrestle With the Evidence for Miracles
Evangelical Philosophical Society A-2
Moderator: Angus J. L. Menuge
- Matthew A. Flannagan - Can Traditional Theism Provide an Adequate Foundation for Morality? A Reply to Walter Sinnott Armstrong's Critique of William Lane Craig
- Paul Gould - The Anatomy of an Academic Discipline, Philosophy, and the Christian Scolar
- Gregory E. Ganssle - The Possibility of Divine Causation
- J. P. Moreland - Oppy on the Argument from Consciousness: A Rejoinder
Evangelical Philosophical Society A-3
Moderator: Sanjay Merchant
- Adam Pelser - Emotion and Moral Knowledge
- Chad Bogosian - Impeccability, Consensus, and Trusting One's Moral Intuitions: Why Kelly's Total Evidence View of Disagreement Fails
- Robert Larmer - In What Sense (If Any) Do Miracles Require Extraordinary Evidence
- Glenn B. Siniscalchi - Modified Divine Commans and Atheistic Moral Realism: A Thomistic Natural Law Perspective
Evangelical Philosophical Society A-4
Moderators: David Naugle, John Stonestreet
- Panel - David Naugle, Michael Miller, Robert George, Scott B. Rae, Timothy F. George, Charles Colson - From Being Right to Being Good: Recapturing Biblical Ethics and Virtuous Living in an Age of Relativism (3 CDs - $21)
Near Eastern Archaeological Society A
Moderator: Gary A. Byers
- Randall Price - Report of the 2011 Ark Serach LLC Expedition and Excavation on Mt. Ararat
- Rod Schon - Using the RADARSAT 2 Satellite to Examine Underneat the Ice Cap of Mt. Ararat in Search of Noah's Ark
- Douglas Petrovich - Pinpointing the Archaeological Period of the Tower of Babel, and (Re-)Locating the Site of Its Construction
Near Eastern Archaeological Society - A2
Moderator: Clyde E. Billington
- Ted Carruth - Early Christian Manuscripts as Artifacts: How Oral Tradition Became Sacred Scripture
- Adeeb Mickahail - The Philistines: Did They Monopolize the Iron Industry, Control the Technology or Impose Arms Embargo?
- Seth M. Rodriquez - David's Sling and Goliath's Sword: Archaeological Insights into the Ancient Story
Appropriating the Deep Things: An Interaction with Fred Sander's Book The Deep Things of God
Moderator: Adam J. Johnson
- Jason Sexton - Evangelicalism's Tacit Trinitarianism and "Deep Things" Tapered Transcendence
- Scott Harrower - "The Deep Things of God:" Relevant and Robust Trinitarianism
- Andrew Selby - Fred Sanders and Thomas Aquinas on God's Blessedness
- Keith L. Johnson - Trinity and Salvation in "The Deep Things of God"
Baptist Studies
Moderator: Peter Beck
- James M. Renihan - 'That Strong Hold of Their Common Faith:' Salvation in Christ Alone Among 17th Century Baptists
- Chris Chun - Andrew Fuller's Christological Particularism as a Response to William Vidler's Universalism
- Nathan A. Finn - Baptist Universalism in the Early Republic: The Philadelphia Controversy
- Chris Morgan - What about Those Who Have Never Heard? An Evaluation of Baptist Responses in the 20th and 21st Centuries
Church History: American Christianity
- John D. Hannah - The Uncomfortable Fraternity: Dallas Seminary, and Early American Fundamentalism
- A. Donald MacLeod - Dispensational Diversit In the 1920s: The Gaebeleins, Stony Brook, and their New School
- Owen Strachan - Of Holy Grails and the 'Evangelical Harvard': Carl Henry, IFACS, and the Untold Story of the Great Christian University
- Brandon J. O'Brien - From Tip-toes to Toolkits: Christianity Today, Leadership Journal, and American Evangelical Clergy (1956-1980)
Church History: Calvin and Luther
- Bonnie Pattison - Calvin's Thology of the Body in His Anti-Nicodemite Writings
- Karin Spiecker Stetina - Revelation and Metaphorical Language for God: John Calvin on the Use of Feminine Imagery for God
- Yosep Kim - The Sole Headship of Christ in John Calvin's Ideas of Church Reformation
- Uche Anizor - Luther, the Priesthood of Believers, and the Theological Interpretation of Scripture
Church History: Early Church
- Keith Goad - The Doxological Theology of Gregory of Nazianzus
- Ryan S. Peterson - Theological Interpretations of Genesis 3: R.W. L. Moberly Put in Conversation with the Early Church
- John B. Song - The God Who is 'Appalled' at Injustice: A Hermeneutical Exploration of Novatian's View of Divine Emotions and Impassibility
Four Views on Divine Providence
Moderator: Dennis W. Jowers
- Paul Kjoss Helseth - God Causes All Things: A Brief Response
- William Lane Craig - A Molinist Account of Providence: A Second Look
- Ron Highfield - God Controls by Liberating
NT: James and Peter
- William Baker - The Church in the Epistle of James
- W. Edward Glenny - Flesh, Spirit, and Theology in 1 Peter
- Bob Wilkin - Does James Teach Salvation by Works? The Meaning of the Five Uses of Sozo in James
- J William Johnston - Is There a Quotation in This Text? James 4:5 and the Jealous S/spirit
NT: Jesus and the Gospels
- F. David Farnell - Evangelicals and the Rise of the Searching for the 'Historical Jesus'
- David W. Chapman - Historicity of the Burial of Jesus in the Canonical Gospels
- Cheol-Hun Ahn - Another Look at the Fourth Petition of the Lord's Prayer: A Tradition-Hisorical and Contextual Approach
- Andrew Carter Marquez - Service to the Servant
NT: Johannine Literature
- Randy Rheaume - God's Son on Life Support: A Temporal or Eternal Condition?
- Paul Hartog - Polycarp and the Date of Revelation
- David A. Croteau - Analyzing Professions of Faith In the Fourth Gospel: Is Everyone Who 'Believes' Saved?
- John Dennis - How Does the Lamb of God 'Take Away' Sin in the Fourth Gospel? An Apocalyptic and Cosmic Answer
NT: Paul
- Michael M. Canham - '…But admonish him as a brother' (2Thess 3:15) - Discipline of Restoration?
- John McMath – Hab 2.4 and Justification by Faith: An Argument for Pauline Consistency with the Underlying Hebrew Concept of Justification by Faith
- Joseph R. Dodson – Corruption, Idols and the Fall of Humanity in the Wisdom of Solomon and in Romans
- Michael E. Peach – A Comparison and Synthesis of 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 and Jügen Moltmann's Understanding of the Parousia
NT: Synoptics and Acts
- Carl Sanders - Rethinking 'Conversion' in Acts: Proclamation to Jews and God-Fearers in Light of Lukan Literary and Theological Purposes
- David H. Warren - MP EPI PORNEI (Matt 19:9): Exception or Exclusion?
- Michael L. Parrott - Revisiting the Poetic Structure of Matthew 6:9-13 and the Practical Implications for Prayer as the Devotional Life
- Matthew Yates Emerson - Christ and the New Creation: The Shape of the Fourfold Gospel Corpus and Acts
OT: Poetic Books and Wisdom Literature
- C. Hassell Bullock - The Shape of the Torah as Reflected in Book 1 of the Psalter
- A. Boyd Luter - Love in a Fallen World: Toward a Theology of the Song of Songs
- Brian P. Gault - The Garden of Love in Song of Songs: Universal Archetype or Theological Allusion?
- Andrew Abernathy - 'Right Paths' and/or 'Paths of Righteousness:' Examining Psalm 23:3 in the Context of the Psalter
OT: The Old Testament and the Ancient Near East
- Gordon Johnston - A Critical Evaluation of Moshe Weinfeld's Approach to the Davidic Covenant as Royal Throne Grant: What Did Weinfeld Get Right and What Did He Get Wrong?
- Matthew R. Akers - What's in a Name? An Examination of the Usage of the Term 'Hebrew' in the Old Testament
- Barry J. Beitzel - The Gulf of Aqaba/Elat in Classical Antiquity: A Response to Michael D. Oblath and Glen A. Fritz
- Neal A. Hddleston - Mixing Metaphors with the Shepher-Kin in Psalm 80: An Ancient Near Eastern Reappraisal of the Pastoral Motif
OT: The Prophets
- Jacques Doukhan - 'She shall call His name Immanuel,' A Messianic Exegesis of Isaiah 7:13-14
- Jerry Hwang - 'A Prophet to the Nations:' The Theme of Missio Dei in the Book of Jeremiah
- E. Ray Clendenen - A Passionate Prophet: Reading Emotions in the Book of Malachi
- Robert C. Kashow - How Was the Book of the Twelve Interpreted from its Inception Through the Early Church? A Reassessment
Racial Reconciliation
Moderator: M. Sydney Park
- Jarvis J. Williams - A New Race 'in Christ': Paul's Exclusive Soteriological Foundation underneath His Understanding of Identity Formation and Racial Reconciliation
- Kenneth Mathews - Racial Reconciliation: The Old Testament Perspective
- Richard A. Bailey - 'When, oh when shall the happy day come?': New England Puritans, American Evanelicals, and the Need for Racial Reconciliation
Systematic Theology: T. F. Torrance
- Kevin D. Zuber - Thomas F. Torrance: The Incarnation and The Resurrection as "Ultimates": Implications for Theological Method and Apologetics
- W. Duncan Rankin - (GRACE - Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment) Melville Scott and T. F. Torrance: More Than a Remarkable Coincidence?
- Kent A. Kersey - The Myth of Sacramental Art
- Adam Nigh - One With God and One With Us: T. F. Torrance on Jesus Christ as the Only Way to Know the Father
Counseling, Psychology and Pastoral Care
Moderator: Stephen Greggo
- Andrew J. Schmutzer - Understanding Sexual Abuse Against the Background of the Relational Ecosystem
- Steven Tracy - Calling the Evangelical Church to Truth: Domestic Violence and the Gospel
- Richard S. Franklin - Incorporating a Theology of Trust in the Pastoral Treatment of Male Sexual Abuse
- Robert W. Kellemen - A Theologically-Informed Approach to Sexual Abuse Counseling
Hermeneutics
Moderator: James B. DeYoung
- D. Brent Sandy - When Was Jesus Not Speaking Propositionally? Rhetoric and Illocution
- Hank Voss – Theological Exegesis and/or Grammatical-Historical Exegesis? What Does the Theological Interpretation of Scripture Movement Mean for Training Pastors?
- Rhyne Putman - Evangelicals and Gadamerian Hermeneutics: Promises and Perils
- Jake Pratt - Spirals, Horizons and Triads: A Study in Collaborative Hermeneutics
Johannine Literature
History in the Johannine Corpus
Moderator: Ron Fay
- Craig L. Blomberg - Jesus as Purifier: die Plausibilitatskriterium
- Edward W. Klink III - He Revealed His Glory: History According to the Gospel of John
- Gary Manning - John's Nobleman and Matthew's Centurion
Old Testament Prophetic and Apocalyptic Books
Moderator: Paul D. Wegner
- Matthew H. Patton - The Lord of the Ring: The Immutability of Yahweh's Purposes for his Davidic Signe (Hag 2:20-23)
- Matthieu Richelle - yatsdiq As Declarative Substitutionary Righteousness in Isaiah's Fourth Servant Song (Isaiah 52:13-53:1The Structure and Theology of Micah 4-5: A New Approach
- Jan Verbruggen - What's In a Name: Shear Yashub and the Sign of Immanuel
- Joel Barker - An Unfolding Drama: The Rhetorical Function of Audience in Joel 4:9-17
Old Testament Theology
Moderator: Paul Kissling
- Brian G. Toews - Old Testament Theology and the Torah
- Stephen G. Dempster - Old Testament Theology and the Prophets
- Robert Cole - Old Testament Theology and the Writings: Sequence and its Consequence in the Writings
Patristics and Medieval History
Moderator: David C. Alexander
- Benjamin T. Quinn - Augustine's Sapiential Theology: The Role of Wisdom in Augustine
- Jacob Rosenberg - Augustine's Rhetoric Concerning the Jews in Enarrationes in Psalmos: Socio-Polical Antisemitism or Theological Anti-Judaism
- Donsun Cho - Ambrosiater on the Doctrine of Justification by Faith Alone
- Stephen Bagby - The Legacy of Nicaea in the Christology of Gregory of Tours
Theological Aesthetics - What Do the Arts Have to Do with Theology
Moderator: Paul R. Shockley
- Mark Coppenger - The Good, the True, and the Beautiful from a Cartological Perspective
- Paul R. Shockley - What Do the Arts Have to Do with Theology: Aesthetic Experience, the Arts, and the Local Church
- Doug Powell - Behind the CD "The Apprentice's Sorcerer': A Combination of Theology, Apologetics, Music, Graphic Design, and Stage Magic
- Brian Larsen - Evangelicals and the Art: Art and Symbolism as a response to Postmodernism
Pentateuch
Moderator: Peter T. Vogt
- John M. Soden - God's Nature and Nature's Order in Genesis 1: Divine Revelation, Pedagogy or Both?
- Charlie Trimm - God's Staff and Moses' Arms: The Battle against the Amalekites as the Turning Point in the Role of the Divine Warrior
- Thomas J. Egger - What's in a Name? A Rhetorical Analysis of Yahweh's Name-Speech in Exodus 34:6-7
- Mark Catlin - Dating Idols in Deuteronomy: How Polemics Against Idolatry Can Fit a Second Millennium Context
No Other Name: Biblical and Historical Issues
- Abner Chou - So They All Saw the Same Thing?: The Unified Vision of Isaiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Paul, and John and the Exclusivity of Jesus
- Terrance L. Tiessen - God's Covenants: A Ground for Hopefulness Regarding the Unevangelized
- Michael Wittmer - Pelagius Wins? Rob Bell's Other Problem
No Other Name: Contextualization
- Bob Andrews - Remembering How to Think before Speaking the Name
- Arjan de Visser - Honoured but Eclipsed: Beliefs about Christ in an African Church
- Yungsil Park - The 'No Other Name' Debate in the Korean Church concernin the 10th Assembly of WCC in Busan, 2013
Evangelical Philosophical Society Session B-1
Moderator: Glenn B. Siniscalchi
- T. Ryan Byerly - An Internalist, Disposition-Based Account of the Epistemic Justification for Moral and Religious Belief
- Shawn Graves, John White - Hell and Abortion
- Timothy Yoder - Solving the Euthyphro Dilemma and Defending Theistic Ethics
- Philip Stewart - The Moral Knowledge of the Virtues
Evangelical Philosophical Society Session B-2
Moderator: Timothy Paul Erdel
- Hendrik van der Breggen - Language, Logic, and the Beginning of Human Life: Francis Collins’ Fallacies
- Joel A. Schwartz - Wojtyla and the Draw of the Good: How the Good Shapes Our Knowledge of Ethics and Others
Evangelical Philosophical Society Session B-3
Book Symposium: Theistic
- Foundations for Morality by David Baggett and Jerry Walls - Moderator: Mark Foreman – Panelists: David Baggett, Jerry Walls, Paul Copan, William Lane Craig (3 CD’s-$21)
Near Eastern Archaeological Society - B
- Siegfried Horn and the Seventh Day Adventist Contributions to Archaeology - Moderator: Edwin Yamauchi -
- Efrain Velazquez II - Siegfried Horn, a Bridge-Builder:Archaeology and Biblical Studies, Constance Clark Gane - The Siegfried H. Horn Museum, Randall W. Younker - The Andrews Way: A Brief History of Adventist Archaeology, Paul J. Ray, Jr - From Heshbon Expedition to Madaba Plains Project:Methodological Changes, Larry G. Herr - Tall al-`Umayri through the Centuries, Michael G Hasel - New Excavations at Khirbet Qeiyafa-Shaarayim and the Early History of Judah (3 CD’s-$21)
Biblical Theology
- Phillip R. Bethancourt - Christ the Warrior King and the Conquest: Understanding the Canaanite Genocide in Light of a Biblical Theology of Warfare
- Dru Johnson - The Paradox of Prophetic Authentication: A Problem for Biblical Theology?
- Jordan P. Barrett - The Loss of the Divine Names: Toward the Recovery of a Biblical and Theological Tradition
- Brent E. Parker - The Nature of Typology and its Relationship to Competing Views of Scripture
Church History: Christianity and American Culture
- Kevin Lewis - Particularism in Free Exercise Jurisprudence: Are there Illegal Faiths?
- James A. Beverley - Scientology Wars: The New Battles in and about the Church that LRH Built
- Allen Yeh - A Missional Theology of California
- Charles N. Davidson - Repeal of ‘Don‘t Ask, Don‘t Tell‘ Policy – The Major Effects and What This Means for Evangelical Military Chaplains
Church History: Edwardsean Theology
- Walter Schultz - Jonathan Edwards‘s Concept of God‘s End in Creation
- Robert Caldwell - Adoniram Judson and the Edwardsean Heritage
- Jordan J. Ballor - Jonathan Edwards, Samuel Hopkins, and Adam Smith on Self-Love
- Dane Ortlund - ‘Grace Restoring Nature‘ or ‘Created Over a Second Time‘? Bavinck and Edwards on the Essence of Salvation
Commentaries and Exegesis in the Reformation Age
Moderator: Timothy F. George
- Rodney L. Petersen - Reformed Worldviews and the Exegesis of the Apocalypse
- Jason K. Lee - The Two Greatest Commandments (Matt. 22) and the Place of the Law
- Scott M. Manetsch - (Re)Constructing the Pastoral Office: Wolfgang Musculus‘s Commentaries on 1 & 2 Corinthians
NT: 1 Corinthians
- A. Philip Brown II - Chrysostom & Epiphanius: Long Hair the Prohibited Covering in 1 Cor. 11:4, 7
- David Woodall - The Identification of Corinthian Slogans in 1 Corinthians 8
- Keith Krell - Who is the Target of Paul‘s Judgment Statements in 1 Corinthians?
- Hughson T. Ong - A Lexical Study of ‘Spiritual Gift(s)‘ in the Context of 1 Corinthians 12-14
Orthodoxy and Heresy in Early Christian Contexts
- Paul Hartog - Bauer and the Apostolic Fathers, Carl B. Smith II - Post-Bauer Scholarship on Gnosticism(s), William Varner - Jewish Christianity(ies) After Bauer, Rex D. Butler - ‘Orthodoxy‘, ‘Heresy‘ and Complexity: Montanism as a Case Study, Bryan Litfin - Apostolic Tradition and the Rule of Faith in Light of the ‘Bauer/Ehrman‘ Thesis, David C. Alexander - The ‘Bauer Thesis‘ and North African Christianity, Edward Smither - The ‘Bauer Thesis’ and North African Christianity, Glen L. Thompson - Early Christian Rome and the Development of ‘Orthodoxy‘ Panel & Audience Discussion: (3 CDs - $21)
OT: Ezekiel & Daniel
- Thomas Finley - Nebuchadnezzar’s Growth Toward Monotheism
- Joshua Philpot - Was Joseph a Type of Daniel? Typological Correspondence in Genesis 37-50 and Daniel 1-6
- Jason Gile - Ezekiel‘s ‘Deuteronomic‘ Theology of Exile
- Ron Haydon - Mimicry and Mystery: The Inner-Biblical Trajectory of Isaiah 52.11-15 and Daniel 12
Postmodernism and Secularism
- Kyle Meeker - Pluralism and Post-Postmoderns: How the Plausibility Structures of the ‘Millennial‘ and ‘Digital‘ Generations Construct Obstacles to—and Provide Opportunities for—Embracing the Uniqueness of Christ
- John Warwick Montgomery - A Short and Easie Method with Postmodernists
- John R. Lillis - Everybody‘s Doing It: the Phenomenon of Secular Spirituality
- James Spencer - The Social Implications of ‘No Other Name’
Practical Theology: Spiritual Theology
- Robert W. Evans - Gossip: Theological and Psychological Dimensions of a ‘Socially Acceptable‘ Sin
- Chang Kyoo Lee - Living with Christian Hope: A Practical Theology of Hope for a Marginalized Population
- Ryan Bradley - Confronting Confusion: Key Distinctions Regarding Spiritual Direction
- Jay Van Zandt - God’s Plan in 1 Kings 19 For Treating Situational Depression
Systematic Theology: Sovereignty & Election
- Bruce A. Little - God and Gratuitous Evil
- Kevin D. Kennedy - Theories of Election and Paul‘s Objections in Romans Chapter 9
- Michael E. Erickson - Christ’s Universal Atonement and God‘s Sovereign Election: The Trinitarian Role Distinction
- Dennis W. Jowers - A Theological Case Against the Principle of Alternate Possibilities
Systematic Theology: Translation & Hermeneutics
- James A. Borland - An Appraisal of the HCSB Study Bible
- Carmen J. Bryant - Inclusive Language in Bible Translation: Will It Solve the Problems?
- Steven B. Sherman - How Should Christians Read Scripture?: An Evangelical Theological Hermeneutic
- William P. Brooks - Evaluating Ethnohermeneutics Theories: An Examination of the Impact of Culture on Interpretation
Theological Engagement with California‘s Culture
Moderator: Sarah Sumner
- Robert S. Covolo - From The Beach Boys to Surfer‘s Chapel: A Theology of California Surf Culture
- Richard J. Mouw - The ‘Enigma’ of California: Some Theological Reflections
- Monica Ganas - ‘I Have Adonis DNA‘: California‘s Celebrity Culture and Evangelicalism
- Fred Sanders - California, Localized Theology, and Theological Localism
Christian History and Thought Since 1500
Moderator: David Puckett
- Martin I. Klauber - The Uniqueness of Christ at the Academy of Geneva: From J. A. Turretin to Jacob Vernet
- Irving Hexham - Tom Paine and the Enlightenment Attack on Christian Exclusivity
- Paul R. Thorsell - ‘Primus inter pares’? Schleiermacher on the Superiority of Christianity
- J. Nelson Jennings - Salvation in Jesus’ Name Alone: Takakura Tokutaro and Early Twentieth-Century Currents in Japan
Israelite Religions
Moderator: Michael S. Heiser
- John W. Hilber - The Culture of Prophecy and Writing in the ANE
- Sung Jin Park - Asherah, Asherôt and Asherîm: The Cultic Identity of Asherah in Ancient Israel
- Charlie Trimm - YHWH the God of Chaos: The Anti-Chaoskampf in Exodus
- Stephen Huebscher - Celestial Liturgy in Ancient Israel
Psalms and Hebrew Poetry The Psalter as a Book
Moderator: Andrew J. Schmutzer
- Robert Cole - The Introduction to the Psalter
- Francis X. Kimmitt - Psalm 46: Praise the LORD Our Help
- Robert B. Chisholm, Jr. - Suppressing Myth: Yahweh’s Relationship to the Sea in the Praise Psalms
- Tremper Longman - From Weeping to Rejoicing: Psalm 150 as the Conclusion to the Book of Psalms
Spiritual Formation/Sanctification
Moderator: John Coe
- Tom Schwanda - ‘The Spirit Breathes Upon the Word‘: The Formative Use of Scripture in the Hymns of John Newton and William Cowper
- Ben Rhodes - Karl Barth on Sanctification: Do We Grow in Holiness?
- Mark Saucy - Formed to Rule: The Kingdom of God and Spiritual Formation
- Joseph McGarry - A Theology of Formation in Christ: Dietrich Bonhoeffer‘s Discipleship as Model for Theologies of Spiritual Formation
Theology of Work and Economics
Moderator: Stephen Grabill
- Craig L. Blomberg - Neither Capitalism nor Socialism: A Biblical Theology of Economics
- Walter C. Kaiser, Jr. - Ownership and Property in the Old Testament Economy
- Wayne Grudem - Productivity: Why the Innate Human Drive for Greater Economic Production Is neither Greed nor Materialism
- Panel Discussion: Craig L. Blomberg, Walter C. Kaiser, Jr., Wayne Grudem
American Christianity Evangelicalism and American Culture: 18th and 19th Centuries
Moderator: Glenn Kreider
- Gregory A. Wills - Evangelicalism Awry? John Witherspoon, the Legacy of Jonathan Edwards, and Republican Religion
- Mark B. Chapman - Changing Models of Conversion and Their Implications for Evangelicalism
- Gary Steward - Old Princeton and American Culture: Insights from James W. Alexander
- Gregg Quiggle - Bread or Bibles: A Revaluation of the Social Work of Dwight Moody
Biblical Theology
Moderator: Stephen G. Dempster
- Brian S. Rosner - A Hermeneutical Solution to the Puzzle of Paul and the Law
- Scott A. Ashmon - The Covenantal Function of Biblical Birth Annunciations
- Gregory S. MaGee - Cross and Kingdom: Insights from Suffering and Glory in the OT
- Jeremy R. Treat - The Crucified King: A Biblical Theology of Mark with Special Attention to the Kingdom and the Cross
Evangelicals and Gender
Moderators: Alan Myatt, Cynthia Long Westfall
- Michelle Lee-Barnewall - Reframing the Gender Debate: Gen. 2-3 in Literary Perspective
- M. Sydney Park - Sassing Jesus: A Woman‘s Virtue? The Syrophoenician Woman in Mark 7:24-30
- A. Sue Russell - Beyond Status and Role
- Mimi Haddad - Opposing a Patriarchal Hermeneutic: Essential or Extraneous to Dismantling the Global Sex Trade? Voices from the Past Inform Today‘s Humanitarian Efforts
Luke/Acts
Moderator: Scott R. Jackson
- Charles B. Stephenson - Use of the Twelve, the Apostles, and the Elders in Luke/Acts
- Gary Manning - The Spirit and Power of Elijah: The Use of Elijah/Elisha Material in Luke-Acts
- Scott R. Jackson - Koinonia Concepts from the Acts 2 Primitive Church Compared and Contrasted with Greco-Roman Society as It Relates to Friendship, Kinship, and Utopian Ideals
New Testament Canon, Textual Criticism, and Apocryphal Literature
Moderator: Charles E. Hill
- Bill Warren - An Exegetical Approach to Textual Variants
- Tomas Bokedal - Second Century Perspectives on Oral and Written Gospel
- Jeff Cate - Textual Notes in the KJV: Manuscripts, Editions, and Decisions after Four Centuries
- Clay Jones - The Bibliographical Test Revisited
Old Testament Narrative Literature
Moderator: Gary Schnittjer
- Danny Hays - Just How Glorious was Solomon’s Temple? A Narrative and Theological Comparison of Solomon’s Approach to Building the Temple with Moses’s Approach to Building the Tabernacle
- Michael A. Grisanti - The Impact of the Book of Deuteronomy on the Books of ‘Deuteronomistic History’
- Sunwoo Hwang - The Meaning of עלם Attached to the Davidic Covenant in 1 Chronicles 17
- Gordon Johnston - Nature of the Davidic Covenant: ‘Unconditional’ or ‘Irrevocable’?
No Other Name: Islam
- Mark Harlan - Closing the Christological Chasm with Islam
- J. Scott Horrell - No Other Name: Translating ‘Son of God‘ in Muslim-Culture Bibles, Cautions and Balance
- Wonjoo Hwang - Preaching ‘Another Gospel‘ to Muslims? A Biblical-Theological Evaluation of the Muslim Insider Movement
- Barbara Pemberton - Branding Islam for the 21st Century: Global Islamic Reformation or New ‘Christianized‘ Islam for a Western Audience?
No Other Name: Johannine Literature
- Ardel B. Caneday - The Advent of God‘s Son as Judgment in John‘s Gospel: Justification and Condemnation Already
- Kirk R. MacGregor - John 14:6 in its Religio-Historical Context
- Bob Wilkin - What Does It Mean to Believe ‘in His Name’ in the Fourth Gospel?
- John Niemela - Names and Titles: A Simple Response to Jehovah‘s Witnesses on John 1:1-18
No Other Name: NT Thematic Studies
- Jerry Sutton - Seeing the Father in the Face of the Son
- Matthew Barrett - ‘I Will Pour out My Spirit on All People.‘ Are Acts 2, 8, and 10 Proof-Texts for Inclusivism?
- Michael A. Harbin - Melchizedek and the Name of Jesus
No Other Name: OT Thematic Studies
- Matthew C. Simpson - The Contribution of the Shema (Deut 6:4) to ‘No Other Name‘
- Todd S. Beall - No Other Name: The Uniqueness of Yahweh and His Salvific Plan in Isa 40-48
- Carl Sanders - The Content of Saving Faith in the Old Testament: Implications for the Inclusivism Debate
- Ronn Johnson - How Israelite Monotheism Informed ‘No Other Name‘ Theology in the New Testament
No Other Name: World Religions
- Gerry Breshears - Many Roads to Many Gods
- Dan Strange - ‘For Their Rock is not as Our Rock‘: The Gospel as the Subversive Fulfillment of Other Religions
- Keith E. Johnson - Rethinking the Trinity and Religious Pluralism: A Critical Assessment of the Doctrine of the Trinity in the Christian Theology of Religions
- Robert Boyd - ‘No Other Name’ and General Revelation: An Approach to the Theology of Religions
Dispensational Study Group Dispensationalism and the DSG: Retrospect and Prospect
- Moderator: Phil Lueck, Craig Blaising - Classical, Traditional, Progressive: Validity of Labels in Distinguishing Types of Dispensationalism Respondent: R. Bruce Compton,
- Darrell L. Bock - Does an Already-Not Yet Kingdom Really Mean the End of Dispensationalism or Show Its Vibrancy?, Robert Saucy Panel and Audience Discussion
PARALLEL SESSIONS C
Adventist Theological Society – C1
- Marcelo E. C. Dias - The ‘Secret‘ Power behind Mission—the Name of Jesus
- Frank W. Hardy - Heaven, Earth, and Sea: Acts 4:12 in its Textual Context
- Tom Shepherd - No Other Power: The Reordering of Power and Its Implications for Soteriology in 1 Peter
- Gerhard Pfandl - ‘No other name‘ — Why not?
Evangelical Philosophical Society C1
Moderator: Mike Austin
- Angus J. L. Menuge - Might Fratricide Have Been Right? The Contingency Argument Against Evolutionary Ethics
- Francis J. Beckwith - Justificatory Liberalism and Same-Sex Marriage
- William Lane Craig - Why are (Some) Platonists so Insouciant?
- Michael Licona - Pagan Parallels and the Jesus Tradition: A Fresh Look
Evangelical Philosophical Society – C2
Moderator: Chad Bogosian
- Thomas A. Provenzola - Epistemic Eucatastrophy: The Favorable Turn of the Evidence
- James Spiegel - Belief, Behavior, and the Necessary Conditions for Salvation
- Anthony Bryson, David Alexander - The Intentionality Problem for Divine Command Theory
- Gary Habermas - Thoughts on Antony Flew, Skepticism, and Friendship with Unbelievers
Evangelical Philosophical Society – C3
Moderator: Philip Stewart
- Logan Paul Gage - Hume’s Twin Charges Against Theistic Theories of Sense Perception: A Reidian Response
- Aylish Chantler - Property Entanglement, Constraint Optimization, and the Isolation of Unsurpassable Worlds
- Timothy Paul Erdel - Keeping Wisdom in Philosophy: Case Studies from the College Classroom and the Hidden Curriculum
- Sanjay Merchant - The ‘Comparative Religions’ Approach to Trinitarian Theology: Yahweh, Amun-Re, and Ahura Mazda
Near Eastern Archaeological Society – C
Moderator: Gary A. Byers
- Terry Hofecker - Catastrophe in the Kikkar: Jericho City IV and the fall of the Middle Bronze City States of the Southern Jordan Valley
- Steven Collins - From Text to Ground and Back: A Dialogical Approach to Biblical Archaeology
- Kennett Schath - Hammam Dolmen Field: The Excavation of Two Undisturbed Dolmens at Tall el-Hammam
- Carroll M. Kobs - Goddess, Musician, or Harlot of Hammam: A Plaque Figurine at Tall el-Hammam, Season 6
Counseling, Psychology and Pastoral Care
Moderator: Stephen Greggo
- Mark Saucy, Ed Morsey - Marriage as Earthly Workshop for Healing the Heart
- Dan Green - The Rape of Dinah in Genesis 34: An Exegetical, Theological and Pastoral Consideration of the Impact of Sexual Abuse on the People of God
- Stephen K. Moroney - Integrative Perspectives on Human Flourishing: Sin, the Imago Dei, and Positive Psychology
- John Coe - Neurotic Spirituality as Moral Temptation: The Unhealthy Conscience in Dealing with Shame and Guilt
Models of God Eternal Generation in Dispute
Moderator: Thomas McCall
- D. Jeffrey Bingham - The Preexistence of Christ in Early Christianity: Irenaeus and his Opponents in Conflict
- Myk Habets - Dominical Man to Deified Persons—The Primacy of Christ and Human Salvation
- Josh Malone - Begotten Not Made: Should Auld Confessions be Forgot?
OT: Old Testament Theology
- Richard Schultz - A God ‘Who Goes Very Low‘: A Comparison and Critique of the Recent Proposals of Peter Enns and Kenton Sparks regarding Divine Accommodation in the Old Testament
- Michael S. Heiser - The Name Theology of Israelite Religion
- Gary E. Yates - The OT and the Problem of Divine Initiative and Human Response in the Restoration of Israel
- Stephen B. Putney - The Moral Conflicts of a Man After God‘s Own Heart
American Christianity The Calling and Profession of the Church Historian
Moderator: Robert Caldwell
- John D. Hannah - Reflections on 40 Years of Teaching Church History
- Sean Michael Lucas - Church History as a Pastoral Discipline
- Stephen J. Nichols - Unsuccessful Novelists: The Work and Calling of the Church History Writer
- Michael A. G. Haykin - The Church Historian as Spiritual Mentor
Applied Linguistics and Biblical Languages
The Immersion Classroom
Moderator: Randall Buth
- Brian Schultz - Getting Started with the ‘Communicative’ Approach to Teaching Biblical Languages
- Lee M. Fields - Teaching Greek Aspect Using Communicative Methods: Preparation and Practice
- Randall Buth - Exegesis of a Passage Conducted in Biblical Hebrew
- Panel Discussion: Brian Schultz, Lee M. Fields, Randall Buth
Biblical Theology Moore Theological College and Biblical Theology
Moderator: Mark Dubis
- Constantine R. Campbell - Biblical Theology at Moore: Origins and Guiding Principles
- Richard Gibson - Biblical Theology at Moore: Teaching Biblical Theology
- Brian S. Rosner - Biblical Theology at Moore: Reflections on One Scholar’s Research
- Panel Discussion: Constantine R. Campbell, Richard Gibson, Brian S. Rosner, George Athas
Biblical Worship Music for Worship
Moderator: Michael Farley
- Jonathan Blackmon - A Song Made New: Biblical Norms for Music in Corporate Worship
- H. Wayne Johnson - Worship Music as Cross-Cultural Hospitality: A Biblical Approach for Building Unity in Corporate Worship
- Ronald E. Man - Lessons from Global Worship
Bioethics
Sponsored in part by the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity
Moderators: John F. Kilner, Patrick Smith
- Allen Verhey - Jesus as a Paradigm for Dying Well
- Brad F. Mellon - Scripture, Talmud, and Moral Theology: The Historic Role of Hermeneutics in Resolving Bioethical Dilemmas
- Will Honeycutt - Current Bioethics and the Christian Worldview: An Indispensable Nexus
- J. P. Moreland - Bioethics, Substance Dualism and the Argument from Self-Awareness
Christian Ethics Defining and Defending Marriage
Moderator: R. Scott Smith
- Maggie Gallagher - Marriage: The Case for Hope
- Daniel L. Akin - Biblical Marriage in a Broken World: A Theology of a Redeemed Relationship
- Wayne Grudem - Why Limiting Marriage to One Man and One Woman Is Not an Unconstitutional ‘Establishment of Religion’
- Daniel R. Heimbach - Refuting Arguments for Same-Sex Marriage
Creation
Moderator: William D. Barrick
- David L. Turner - John 1:1-5 and Genesis 1:1-3
- Christopher A. Beetham - New Creation: Echoes of Genesis 1 in the Letter of Paul to the Colossians
- David G. Shackelford - Genesis 1-3 in the Light of Romans 5:12-14; 8:18-25; and 1 Corinthians 15:21-58
- Panel Discussion: Michael M. Canham, David L. Turner, Christopher A. Beetham, David G. Shackelford
Ecclesiology
Moderator: Matt Jenson
- John S. Hammett - What Makes a Multi-Site Church One Church?
- Stanley K. Fowler - An Analysis of Baptist Arguments for Congregational Autonomy
- Robert Herrington - Online Churches and Christian Community: Does Christian Fellowship Require Embodied Presence?
- Taylor Worley - Who is Bonhoeffer for Us Today? The Ecclesiological Center of Dietrich Bonhoeffer‘s Theology
Expository Preaching and Hermeneutics
Moderator: Forrest Weiland
- Abraham Kuruvilla - Preaching Genesis 22: What the Author is ‘Doing’ with What He is ‘Saying’
- Walter C. Kaiser, Jr. - Genesis 15:1-6—Christ Is the Same Object of Faith in the Old Testament
- David Klingler - Genesis 5:29: Lamech’s Expectation of One Who Will Bring Rest
Hebrews, Letter to the
Moderator: Herbert W. Bateman IV
- Authorial Commentary Overviews David L. Allen - Review of Hebrews in the New American Commentary Series, Gareth Lee Cockerill - A New Volume on Hebrews in the NICNT—Distinct Emphasis and Contributions
- Reviewer: Buist Fanning - Review of Two Recent Commentaries on Hebrews
- Reviewer: Michael Allen - Recent Commentaries on Hebrews: A Theological Reply
- Responses: David L. Allen, Gareth Lee Cockerill - Panel and Audience Discussion
Literature of the Bible Poetry within Narrative
Moderator: Gene Fant
- Daniel Estes - Job 28 in Its Literary Context
- Dorian Coover-Cox - Poetry within Narrative and Vice Versa: Letting Each Enhance the Other
- Brian Larsen - Poetry and Prose in Jonah: Conflict or Concurrence?
- Michael Pahl - The Poetics of Universality and Exclusivity: Literary-Theological Reflections on Philippians 2, Colossians 1, and Revelation 4-5
New Testament Greek Language and Exegesis
Moderator: Martin Culy
- Cynthia Long Westfall - James 1:1-27: A Systemic Functional Linguistics Approach
- Steven E. Runge - James 2:1-26: A Discourse-Pragmatic and Cognitive Approach
- Ervin Starwalt - James 3:13-4:10: A Longacrian Analysis
- Panel Discussion: Cynthia Long Westfall, Steven E. Runge, Ervin Starwalt
Old Testament Narrative Literature
Moderator: Michael A. Grisanti
- Paul Copan - Old Testament ‘Slavery’: Observations, Challenging Passages, and New Testament Perspectives
- Eugene H. Merrill - The Conquest of Jericho: A Narrative Paradigm for Theocratic Policy?
- Tremper Longman - Thinking Rightly about God: A Review of Disturbing Divine Behavior by E. A. Seibert
- Robert B. Chisholm, Jr. - Fighting God’s Wars: Disturbing Acts of Violence in Judges-Samuel
Other Voices in Biblical Interpretation
- Moderator: Christina Larsen, Ernest Gray - An Appraisal of Race: A Theological Account
- Moderator: Ernest Gray, Steven Tracy - Common Evangelical Misconceptions of Poverty
- Moderator: Steven Tracy, Woodrow E. Walton - No Other Name: No Other Needed Identity
Textual Strategies in the Hebrew
Bible Moderator: Ray Lubeck
- Ron Haydon - Alluding to the End: The Construction šãbu‘îm šib‘îm (Dan. 9.24a) as Episodic Time-Image and How Daniel‘s Style of Ambiguity Develops It
- Carmen Imes - Psalm 24:4 and the Decalogue: A Mutually Illuminating Relationship?
- Allen Jones - Who Are You My Daughter?: A New Understanding of Ruth 3:16
- Andrew Witt - Hearing Psalm 102 within the Literary Context of the Hebrew Psalter
Hermeneutics
Moderator: W. Edward Glenny
- Daniel J. Treier - Pursuing Wisdom: Toward Evangelical Spiritual Exegesis
- Mark Bowald - On Metaphors and the Word of God: Prolegomena to a Rhetorical Dogmatics of Holy Scripture
- Kent Eilers - Theological Interpretation and Theological Cultures: Practices, Ontology, and Agency
- Michael J. Vlach - New Testament Use of the Old Testament: A Survey of Where the Debate Currently Stands
Patristics and Medieval History Eastern Patristics/Early Medieval
Moderator: Paul Hartog
- Jonathan J. Armstrong - Eusebius of Caesarea’s Commentary on Isaiah: Exegesis for a New Empire
- Ashish J. Naidu - Assisting Grace or Transforming Grace? An Investigation of the Motifs of Grace in John Chrysostom‘s Exposition of Hebrews
- Dudley E. Brown - Severian of Gabala: Preacher, Exegete and Defender of Orthodoxy
- Daniel Janosik - The Influence of John of Damascus on the Development of Kal m Arguments in Early Islamic Theology
Pauline Studies
Moderator: Verlyn Verbrugge
- Michael F. Bird - Raging against the Roman Empire with Romans: The Value of Anti- Imperial Readings of Romans?
- Jeffrey W. Aernie - ‘God is really among you‘: The Isaianic Dimensions of 1 Corinthians 14:20-25
- Jack J. Gibson - Did Paul Convince Peter at Antioch?
- James Sweeney - ‘Deliver such a one to Satan’: Paul‘s Disciplinary Directive in 1 Corinthians 5:5, Its Meaning, Anticipated Outcome, and Contemporary Applicability
Synoptic Gospels
Moderator: Mark Strauss
- Morten Hoerning Jensen - Kingdom, Cross and Congregation in the Gospel of Mark
- Mark Batluck - Christological Tension and Revelatory Experience in Mark
- John Lee - Mark‘s Nuanced Portrait of Jesus‘ Relation to God
- Joel F. Williams - Foreshadowing, Echoes, and the Blasphemy at the Cross (Mark 15:29)
No Other Name: Historical Theology
- Wesley Vander Lugt - Why Evangelicals Need Tradition for Participating in Salvation by ‘No Other Name‘
- Jason S. Hiles - ‘No Salvation Outside the Church‘: A Protestant Appropriation of Cyprian‘s Maxim for the Sake of Offering and Securing Assurance of Salvation
- Tomas Bokedal - Nomina Sacra and Early Christian Name Theology
- Gregg R. Allison - Historical Theology and Its Contribution to the Debate over the Exclusivity of Jesus Christ for Salvation
No Other Name: Reformation
- Jeff Fisher - The Christocentric Interpretation of John Oecolampadius on the Child Named in Isaiah 7-11
- Berthold Schwarz - Some Implications of Martin Luther‘s Solus Christus in his Theological Validation of the Jews
PARALLEL SESSIONS D
Adventist Theological Society – D1
- Kyungho Song - The Uniqueness of Christ‘s Resurrection and Its Relation to Human Salvation: An Adventist Perspective
- Anthony Kent - Luke‘s Record of the Lystra Visit: No Other Name or Did Some OT Baggage Make the Journey?
- Kessia Reyne Bennet - A Mission of Righteousness, Intercession, and Inclusion in Amos 9:11-12
Evangelical Philosophical Society – Plenary Session
Moderator: Paul Copan
Near Eastern Archaeological Society – D
Moderator: Gary A. Byers
- Charles Aling - A Tale of Two Viziers and Their Connection to the Joseph Story
- Clyde E. Billington - Is Israel Mentioned on the Berlin Pedestal?
- Daniel A. Warner - Is There Light at the End of the Tunnel? – The Gezer Water System Project
- Charles Carpenter - Setting as Foreshadowing in the Fourth Gospel
Missions & Missional Theology
- Jason G. Duesing - Salvation in No One Else: A Bicentennial Appreciation of Adoniram Judson‘s Life and Missionary Sacrifice for the Burmese
- Miles S. Mullin, II - American Evangelical Global Social Engagement in the Name of Jesus: The Experience of World War II and the Early Years of the World Relief Commission
- Jason Sexton - Missional Theology‘s Missing Ingredient: the Necessity of Systematic Theology for Proclaiming ‘No Other Name‘
- Michael Andres - Models for Justice and Evangelism in Christian Witness
OT: Historical Books
- Ralph K. Hawkins - To Drive Out, Dispossess, or Exterminate? Variations in the Vocabulary of Conquest in the Book of Joshua
- Gregory T. K. Wong - A Farewell to Arms: The Rhetoric of Arms and the Death of Goliath
- Shawn C. Madden - Book Level Discourse Analysis/Text Linguistic Evaluation of the Book of Kings
- W. Brian Aucker - Making Axe Heads Float: Interpreting 2 Kings 6:1-7 in its Narrative Context
OT: Psalms and Poetic Literature
- Sung Jin Park - A New Metrical Approach on Biblical Hebrew Poetry in Light of Generative Metrics
- Daniel Owens - Ethical Ideals and Reality in Dialogic Tension in Book I of the Psalter
- David Emanuel - The Elevation of God’s Role in Psalm 105
- Michael Snearly - Coda: Psalms 146-150 as the Conclusion of the Psalter
Perspectives on the Spectrum of Evangelicalism
Moderator/Introduction: Andy Naselli
- Presenters: Kevin T. Bauder - A Fundamentalist View on the Spectrum of Evangelicalism, R. Albert Mohler Jr. - A Conservative Evangelical View on the Spectrum of Evangelicalism, Carl Trueman - Response to Kevin Bauder and Albert Mohler, (3 CDs $21)
Practical Theology: Sexual Ethics
- Timothy Paul Erdel - Is Sexual Autobiography Self-Authenticating?: Assessing Moral and Spiritual Claims from GLBTQ Communities
- W. Duncan Rankin - A Theological Analysis of Child Sexual Abuse Studies Conducted by GRACE: A Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment
- Denny Burk - Jesus vs. Paul Cage-match: Do Red Letters Trump Black Letters as a Normative Basis for Sexual Ethics?
- Amy F. Davis - The Sexual Reformation: Marry the Clerics!
ETS Career Connections: Publishing and the Future of Scholarship
- William Mounce - What Every Author Should Know about Electronic Publishing
- Lane T. Dennis - The Future of Publishing: Technology, media, and message
- Panel Discussion
Systematic Theology: Thematic Studies
- Charles Raith II - Christ and the Sacraments: Evangelicals and the Embrace of Participation
- Brent E. Parker - Typology in Theological Systems: An Evaluation of the Nature and Function of Typology in Dispensational and Covenant Theology
- Robert A. Peterson - Penal Substitution Is Foundational to the Atonement
- Benjamin H. Arbour - Moral Responsibility, the Freedom to Do Otherwise, and the Perseverance of the Saints
Asian/Asian-American Theology
Moderator: Sung Wook Chung
- Joseph D. Wooddell - Proclaiming ‘No Other Name‘ In An Urban, Chinese University Setting
- Alexander Chow - Three Types of Chinese Theology
- Sung Wook Chung - Korean and Korean-American Systematic Theology: Retrospect and Prospect
- Will Honeycutt - An Analysis and Appraisal of the Exclusivist Claims of Hinduism, Buddhism and Christianity
Evangelicals and Gender
- A Panel on Alan G. Padgett‘s -As Christ Submits to the Church: A Biblical Understanding of Leadership and Mutual Submission, Moderator: Christian Collins Winn, Presenter: Alan Padgett, Response: Cynthia Long Westfall, John DelHousaye, Ronald W. Pierce, Alan Padgett Audience Questions
General Epistles
Moderator: Herbert W. Bateman IV
- Peter H. Davids - What Glasses Are You Wearing? Reading Hebrew Narratives through Second Temple Lenses
- Karen H. Jobes - O Taste and See: Septuagint Psalm 33 in 1 Peter
- Dan G. McCartney – Cyclo-Thematic Structure in James, 1 Peter, and 1 John
- Panel Discussion: Peter H. Davids, Karen H. Jobes, Dan G. McCartney
Hebrew Language and Exegesis
Moderator: Jason S. DeRouchie
- E. Ray Clendenen - Discourse Type, Slot Machines, and the Hebrew Bible
- Stephen Levinsohn - Constraints on Interpretation: ’Ak versus Raq, and Laken versus ’Al-ken’
- Jason S. DeRouchie - Discourse Analysis and the Macrostructure of Genesis
- Randall Buth - Teaching Discourse Analysis through Productive Choices
Luke/Acts
Moderator: Osvaldo Padilla
- Steve Strauss - The Purpose of Acts and the Mission of God
- William Larkin - The Contribution of Acts’ Understanding of Kingdom of God and Salvation to the Prioritism-Holism Debate
- Steve Walton - What does ‘Mission’ Mean in Acts in Relation to the Powers-That-Be?
New Testament Canon, Textual Criticism, and Apocryphal Literature
Moderator: Michael J. Kruger
- E. Randolph Richards - The Author in Greco-Roman Letter Writing
- Terry L. Wilder - Literary Property, Pseudonymity, and the New Testament with Special Reference to Ehrman’s ‘Forged’
- Armin Baum - Candid Questions on Early Christian Pseudepigraphy: Authorial Attribution in Recent Research
- Nicholas Perrin - Pseudonymity and Canon Redux: The Meade Thesis and Its Variations Twenty-five Years Later
Old Testament Backgrounds/Ancient Near East
Moderator: David Deuel
- Alan Millard - Seeking Signs of Monotheism in Israel’s Polytheistic World
- Daniel I. Block - Bearing the Name of YHWH in a Polytheistic World: The Deuteronomic Vision of Spiritual Integrity
- Michael S. Heiser - Does Divine Plurality in the Hebrew Bible Demonstrate an Evolution From Polytheism to Monotheism in Israelite Religion?
- Panel Discussion: Alan Millard, Daniel I. Block, Michael S. Heiser
Old Testament Wisdom Literature
- Panel Discussion: Methodological Issues in the Interpretation of OT Wisdom Literature, Moderator: Gordon Johnston, Panelists: C. Hassell Bullock, Daniel Estes, Tremper Longman
- V. Philips Long - The Coherence of the Third Dialogic Cycle in Job
- Richard Schultz - ‘Fear God and keep his commandments‘ (Eccl 12:13,NIV): A Reconsideration of Intertextual Relationships between Deuteronomy and Ecclesiastes
Pastoral Epistles
Moderator: Ray Van Neste
- Robert W. Yarbrough - The Theology of the Pastorals in NT Theologies
- L. Timothy Swinson - The Pastoral Epistles and Perspectives Old and New
- Greg A. Couser - ‘Life on Life‘: Explorations in Paul‘s Understanding of Eschatological Life
- Frank Thielman - The Pedagogy of Grace: Soteriology, Ethics, and Mission in Titus 2:11-14
Pastoral Theology
Moderator: John E. Johnson
- W. Bingham Hunter - Biblical and Pastoral Perspectives on How Christians Pray with Special Reference to the Expression: ‘If it be Thy will‘
- John E. Johnson - What Pastoral, Corporate, and Political Leadership Can Learn One Another
- Eric W. Moore - Are Unbelievers Welcome At The Lord’s Supper?
- David W. Hirschman - Helping Seminary Students Develop Theologies for Pastoral Ministry
Pentateuch
Moderator: Peter T. Vogt
- Eugene H. Merrill - Deuteronomy and de Wette: A Fresh Look at a False Premise
- Peter T. Vogt - The Date of Deuteronomy: The State of Inquiry
- Gordon McConville - Words and the Heart: A Spirituality of Torah
- Panel Discussion: Eugene H. Merrill, Peter T. Vogt, Gordon McConville
Puritan Studies
Moderator: Peter Beck
- Tom Schwanda - Looking Unto Jesus: The Life, Piety, and Ministry of Isaac Ambrose
- Michael A. G. Haykin - The Sweetness of Christ: Joseph Stennet I and His Christ- Centered Hymns
- Mark A. Deckard - Helpful Truth in Past Places – The Puritans as Guide for Modern Biblical Counseling
- Peter Beck - ‘The Fountain of Life’: The Excellency of Christ in the Preaching of John Flavel
Revelation, Book of
Moderator: Mark Wilson
- Rob Dalrymple - ‘Place Prepared by God‘: On Earth, Heaven, or Both?
- Alan S. Bandy - Worship No Other: Persecution and the Purpose of Revelation
- J. Scott Duvall - Following the Lamb: Spiritual Formation in the Book of Revelation
- Panel: The Book of Revelation in the University, Church, and Academy – Panelists: Rob Dalrymple, Alan S. Bandy, J. Scott Duvall
World Christianity
Moderator: Allen Yeh
- Chakravarthy R. Zadda - Shoemaker and Missionary, William Carey: A Dalit Christian Perspective, May May Latt - The Legacy of Adoniram & Ann Judson: A Burmese Christian Woman’s Perspective, Timothy F. George - Let It Go: Lessons from the Life of William Carey, Jeff Iorg - Blood Lines and Blood-Letting: Historic Themes of Baptist Missions, Timothy C. Tennent - William Carey as a Missiologist (3CDs $21)
Young Scholars
- Panel Discussion: Universalism and Evangelical Theology, Moderator: Vincent Bacote, Panelists: John Franke, George Kalantzis, Robin Parry (3CDs $21)
Biblical Worship
Moderator: Ronald E. Man
- Robbie Fox Castleman - Contemporary Liturgical Docetism and the Re-Incarnation of Christian Worship Through Story-Shaped Liturgy
- Christina Larsen - Toward a Distinctly Christian Music: An Evangelical Critique of David Brown
- Barry Joslin - Raising the Worship Standard: the Translation and Meaning of Colossians 3:16 and Implications for Our Corporate Worship
Christian Ethics
Moderator: Daniel R. Heimbach
- David A. Horner - Too Good Not to Be True: A Call to Moral Apologetics
- Mark Daniel Liederbach - Orthodoxy and Orthopraxy: Exploring the Vital Link Between Doctrine and Ethics
- Dennis P. Hollinger - The Ethics of Contraception: A Theological Analysis
- Evan Lenow - The Forgotten Virtue of Friendship: Thomistic Friendship and Contemporary Christian Ethics
Method in Systematic Theology
Moderators: Craig Carter, Joel Scandrett
- Myk Habets - Carl Henry vs Thomas Torrance: Why Carl Henry and Other Evangelicals Can‘t Comprehend Torrance‘s Kata Physic Method in Theology, Adam Nigh - Depth Exegesis: T. F. Torrance on Interpreting Scripture, George Ziegler - When is Vicarious Vicarious? Grace as Method in the Theology of T.F. Torrance, Brannon Ellis - Back to the Basics: The Promise of T.F. Torrance‘s Trinitarian Theological Methodology, With a Caveat, Respondent: Paul Molnar (3CDs $21)
Spiritual Formation/Sanctification
Moderator: Steve Porter
- Kyle Strobel - An Evangelical Spirituality of Theosis
- Timothy Wiarda - The Holy Spirit and Spiritual Formation
- John Coe, Judy Ten Elshof - A Transformational-Wisdom Approach to Christian Education: Embracing Spiritual Formation as Apprentice-Training in the University and Seminary
- Mark DeVine - Not Having a Righteousness of My Own: Exploring Completed and Progressive Sanctification
No Other Name: Exclusivism and Universalism
- Gary L. Shultz Jr. - Universal Atonement not Universal Salvation: Why an Atonement that Paid for All Sin does not Save Everyone from their Sin
- Shawn Bawulski - Exclusivism and the Proportion of the Redeemed from All of Humanity: Is Gehenna‘s Population Greater Than That of the New Jerusalem?
- James Bruce - The Dignity of Damnation
- Kevin Lewis - The Theological Coherence of Christian Particularism
No Other Name: Pluralism
- Alan Myatt - Liberation in Christ Alone? The Challenge of Pluralism in Recent Latin-American Liberation Theology
- Gary Tyra - Some Things Never Change: The Connection Between Prophetic Activity and Missional Effectiveness in a Religiously Pluralistic Ministry Context
- Todd L. Miles - He Will Glorify Me: Evaluating the Current Turn to Pneumatology by Inclusivists and Pluralists
- Adam W. Greenway - Inerrancy and Exclusivity in Mutuality: Why ‘No Other Name’ Reveals No Other Way
No Other Name: Prayer
- Mark Bird - Should We Pray to Jesus (or Just in His Name)?
- Terry Fung - Does the Bible Teach Believers Explicitly and Directly to Pray in the Name of Yahweh/Jesus for the Salvation of Lost Persons?
- Michael A. Milton - ‘In Jesus’ Name I Pray‘: Exclusivity in Public Prayer and the Restrictive Contours of Civic Pluralism
- Leo Percer - Confidence in Christ and the Sin unto Death – When Should a Believer Not Pray? 1 John 5:13-21
Uniqueness of Christ
- Steve W. Lemke - No Other Name: Justification by Faith in Christ Alone
- Brian K. Payne - The Summing Up of All Things in Christ and Its Cosmic Implications
- I. Leon Harris - Spirit Christology and the Uniqueness of Jesus Christ as Saviour: A British Reformed and Pentecostal Project
- Bruce A. Ware - Theological Bases for Demonstrating that Jesus Christ is the Only Savio
PARALLEL SESSIONS E
Evangelical Philosophical Society – E1
Moderator: Thomas A. Provenzola
- Philip D. Shadd - John Rawls vs Abraham Kuyper on Sphere Sovereignty
- Jonathan Loose - Personal Identity And Resurrection: A Crisis For Materialism
- R. Scott Smith - Craig‘s Fictionalism, Essences, and Implications for Our Knowledge of Reality
- Brad Seeman - An Identity/Reasons Problem in Christine Korsgaard‘s Moral Philosophy
Evangelical Philosophical Society – E2
Moderator: Joel A. Schwartz
- Patrick Smith - Active vs. Passive Euthanasia: Does the Distinction Clarify or Confuse?
- Mike Austin, Doug Geivett - A New Moral Argument
- Jeremy Evans - The Defeat of Evil
- James C. McGlothlin - Logical Contradiction and God’s Omnipotence
Evangelical Philosophical Society – E3
Moderator: Wm. Travis Coblentz
- Jeremy Carey - Abortion and Reflective Equilibrium
- J. P. Moreland - A Conceptualist Argument for Substance Dualism
- Benjamin H. Arbour - Future Freedom and the Fixity of Truths: Closing One Road to Open Theism
- Edward Martin - On the Impossibility of Omnimalevolence: Plantinga on Tooley’s New Evidential Argument from Evil
Evangelical Philosophical Society – E4
Moderator: Robert Larmer
- Scott Key - The Calling of Truth and the Truth of Calling
- John Spano - How We Should Remember: A Philosophical Look at Volf‘s Remembering Rightly
- James Anderson - Positive Mysterianism Undefeated
- Omar Fakhri - A Critical Evaluation of David Brink’s Response to the Argument from Disagreement and Queerness
Evangelical Philosophical Society Session E-2
Moderator: Michael S. Jones
- Travis Dickinson - Foundationalism and the God‘s Eye View
- Marc Belcastro - God is (the) Good...All the Time... and in All Possible Worlds Too
- Mark J. Boone - Proper Function and the Conditions for Warrant
- Andrew Torrance - Do Human Beings Have the Freedom to Love? A Look at the Compatibility of Three Views in Kierkegaard‘s Account of Reconciliation
Near Eastern Archaeological Society – E
Moderator: Gary A. Byers
- Kyung S Baek - The Abrahamic Covenant and the Dead Sea Scrolls
- Donald McNeeley - The Falasha of Ethiopia and the Essene Community: Are they related?
- Cristian G. Rata - The Pastoralists of LBA and the Emergence of Israel in Canaan
Cyril of Alexandria
Moderator: Michael A. G. Haykin
- Matthew R. Crawford - Cyril of Alexandria’s Pro-Nicene Theology of Revelation and Scripture
- Jonathan Morgan - The Idea of ‘Spiritual Circumcision‘ in the Alexandrian Tradition
- Ben C. Blackwell - Deification in Cyril of Alexandria: His Reading of Pauline Texts
- Michael A. G. Haykin, Matthew R. Crawford - Cyril of Alexandria in Hollywood: Cyril, Hypatia and the Movie Agora
Multidisciplinary Theological Engagement with Contemporary Bioethical Issues
Moderator: John F. Kilner
- Richard E. Averbeck - Wisdom from the Old Testament, Response
- Scott B. Rae - Wisdom from Business Ethics, Response
- Stephen Greggo - Wisdom from Counseling, Response
- John F. Kilner - Bioethics and Multidisciplinary Engagement, Panel Discussion
OT: Genesis
Moderator: David Deuel
- David Deuel - YHWH‘s Incomparable Mission and Image in Genesis 1:1-2:3
- James Coakley - Genesis 4 as an Introduction to the Pentateuch
- Milton Eng - The Grammar of Gen. 1 and What It Tells Us About Creation
- William D. Barrick - Conscience, Oral Tradition, Natural Religion, or Later Insertion?: Unwritten Revelation in Genesis 1-11
Analytic Theology Forgiveness
Moderator: Michael Rea
- Cristian Mihut - Changing One’s Heart: Forgiveness, Resentment, and Empathy
- Christian B. Miller - The Challenge to Virtue, Character, and Forgiveness from Social Psychology and Philosophy
- Peter W. Martens - Does Atonement Entail Forgiveness? Two Classical Approaches to Jesus’ Death
Christianity and Culture Into the Dark: Seeing the Sacred in Film
Moderator: Glenn Kreider
- Craig Detweiler - Reversing the Hermeneutic: Scripture Through Cinema
- John Adair - Seeing the Unseen in Classic and Contemporary American Film
- Earl Waggoner - God as Chairman: ‘The Adjustment Bureau’ as a Reflection on the Contours of Divine Sovereignty
- Craig Detweiler - Into the Dark: Original Sin in the Films of Christopher Nolan
Method in Systematic Theology
- A Discussion of Kevin Vanhoozer’s - Remythologizing Theology: Divine Action, Passion, and Authorship, Moderator: Mark Bowald, Panelists: John Franke, Fred Sanders, Steve Wellum, Oliver Crisp, Respondent: Kevin J. Vanhoozer
New Testament Backgrounds
Moderator: Terry L. Wilder
- Lynn H. Cohick - Philippians and Imperial Rome: A Critique of Counter-Imperial Readings in Paul
- F. Alan Tomlinson - Greco-Roman Background Resources Available on the Internet That Inform the Study of the New Testament
- Steven C. Hallam - Athletic Imagery in John?: ‘Just do it‘ with Nike and Stephanos
- Daniel M. Gurtner - This World and the World to Come: Soteriology in Early Judaism
Pauline Studies
- Panel Discussion: The Place of Salvation History in Galatians, Moderator: Linda Belleville, Presenters: Linda Belleville, Bruce Longenecker, Sigurd Grindheim, Mark D. Nanos
Reformation Studies
Moderator: David W. Hall
- Peter A Lillback - Calvin‘s Final Verdict on the Augsburg Confession
- J. V. Fesko - The Socinian Challenge to Solus Christus and the Reformation Response
- Guenther (“Gene”) Haas - John Calvin on Natural Law and the Two Kingdoms
- Reformation Studies Panel - Natural Law, Two Kingdoms, and No Other Name, Panelists: Guenther (“Gene”) Haas, David W. Hall, Stephen Grabill, David Van Drunen , Ryan C. McIlhenny
Synoptic Gospels The Princeton-Prague Seminar on Jesus Research/Jesus the Temple
Moderator: Leslie Robert Keylock
- Presentation: Dennis Ingolfsland - Jesus Research: An International Perspective, Respondent: James Charlesworth, Panel Discussion: James Charlesworth, Dennis Ingolfsland, Presentation: Craig L. Blomberg - Methodology in Jesus Research, Respondent: James Charlesworth, Panel Discussion: James Charlesworth, Craig L. Blomberg, Jesus the Temple Presentation: James Sweeney - An Evaluation of Perrin’s Thesis, Respondent: Nicholas Perrin, Panel Discussion: Nicholas Perrin, James Sweeney (3 CDs $21)
Wesleyan Studies Atonement: Limited or Unlimited
Moderator: Daryl E. McCarthy
- Allan Coppedge - The Boundless and Unlimited Love of Our Trinitarian God as Demonstrated in the Atonement
- E Charles Edward White - ‘Ye Need not One be Left Behind/For God hath bidden All Mankind‘: The Wesley Brothers‘ Response to the Doctrine of Limited Atonement
- Christopher T. Bounds - The Scope of the Atonement in the Early Church Fathers
- Harold F. Carl - Unlimited Atonement and the Wesleyan Impulse for World Missions and Evangelism, Respondent: Michael Horton
Christian History and Thought Since 1500
Moderator: David Buschart
- Kenneth J. Stewart - The Apostolic Fathers in the Hands of Protestants: 1600-2000
- Carl Mosser - Calvin and Deification Again
- Paul Gritz - The Unseen Rift among London‘s Particular Baptists during the 1640s over Tobias Crisp‘s Views in Christ Alone Exalted.
- Jason Benjamin Oakes - The Trinitarian Metaphysics of Berkeley, Malebranche, and Edwards
Hebrews, Letter to the
Moderator: Jon C. Laansma
- Thomas Keene - I’m Glad I Don’t Know: The Literary Function of Anonymous Authorship in the Epistle to the Hebrews
- Benjamin J. Ribbens - Conceptual Backgrounds and Sacrifice Theology in Hebrews
- Jacob Rosenberg - The Sin of Esau as Anti-Type to the Character and Position of Jesus in Hebrews 12:16
- Barry Joslin - Whose Name? A Comparison of Hebrews 1 and Philippians 2 and Christ‘s Inheritance of the Name
No Other Name: Christ and Evangelism
- Larry W. Caldwell - How Much Knowledge of ‘No Other Name‘ is Enough Knowledge for Salvation? Towards a ‘Recommended Salvation Allowance‘
- Robert E. Coleman - Evangelism: The Heartbeat of Theology
- Stephen K. Moroney - Will God‘s Love Win Everyone to Salvation? Universalist Hope in Light of the New Testament
- Steven Tsoukalas - Jesus and Krishna: Whose Name as ‘No Other’?
ETS Career connections: Finding Academic Employment in Today’s Market
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