KANSAS CITY, Mo – Midwestern Seminary will be represented by 48 faculty members and current Ph.D. students as they present scholarly papers, moderate sessions, and participate in panel discussions at the 74th annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society in Denver, Colorado on Nov. 15-17. The theme of this year’s meeting is “Holiness.”
“I am grateful to see another strong crop of Midwestern Seminary faculty and students presenting at the annual ETS meeting,” said President Jason Allen. “This is another testament to the strong faculty that we have at Midwestern Seminary, and to their focus on raising up the next generation of pastor theologians and scholars for the church.”
Midwestern Seminary Provost Jason Duesing added, “The ETS is a wonderful gathering to receive constructive feedback on one’s scholarly work done for the glory of God and to test the merits of one’s ideas.”
“I am grateful for all of these from MBTS who have the opportunity to share their scholarship this year—it is a testament to the quality our faculty and Ph.D. students, and an accomplishment for which we have great admiration and gratitude.”
The Presentations
Midwestern Seminary professors and students taking part in the meeting and their topics are as follows:
– Tim Haupt (Ph.D. graduate): “The House of Purification: The Role of the Church in John Bunyan’s Doctrine of Sanctification”
– J. Alan Branch (professor of Christian ethics): “Does the Use of Puberty-Suppressing Drugs Satisfy the Requirements of Informed Consent?”; moderator, Bioethics
– Omokoyode Philippe Adebile (Ph.D. student): “Beyond Illumination: The Spirit’s Agency in Biblical Interpretation”
– Daniel Graham (Ph.D. student): “The Mood of Command in Septuagint Deuteronomy”
– James Cater (Ph.D. student): “An Unstained Tongue: Pride and Boasting in James 1:27”
– Charles E. Ackmann (Ph.D. student): “The Old Testament Canon as List: Exploring the Effect of Canon on Hermeneutics”
– Jason S. DeRouchie (research professor of Old Testament and Biblical theology): “Three Case Studies on Christ in the Old Testament: Gen. 22:1–19; Prov. 8:22–31; Isa. 42:1–4”
– Jason G. Duesing (professor of historical theology): “Preaching Against the State: The Piety of the Anabaptists in Persecution as an Example for 21st Century Evangelicals”
– Geoffrey Chang (assistant professor of historical theology): “A Symbol of the Invisible”: Spurgeon and the Animal World
– J. Seward Gelatt (Ph.D. student): “The Micah 6:8 Tricola and its Influence on Jesus’ Denunciation of the Pharisees in Matthew 23”
– Ryan T. Reed (Ph.D. student): “How Fundamentalist Shall We Be? An Assessment of the Neo-Evangelicals’ Doctrine of Scripture”
– Quinn R. Mosier (Ph.D. student): “John and the Synoptics: Reassessing Past Methods and Assumptions”
– Ross D. Harmon (Ph.D. graduate): “Blessed Statements of the Psalms: Identifying Patterns of Use for ___ within the Psalms”
– Jared Bumpers (assistant professor of preaching and evangelism): “Shatter Their Teeth in Their Mouth? An Evangelical Approach to Preaching the Imprecatory Psalms”
– Lance English (Ph.D. student): “Reading Organically: Herman Bavinck’s Organic Motif as a Trinitarian Hermeneutic for All of Life”
– Matthew Barrett (associate professor of Christian theology): “The Beatific Vision and Thomistic Telos of Systematic Theology”; “The Holiness of God: Classical Metaphysics and the Retrieval of Reformed Scholasticism Today”; moderator, Evangelical Theologians in Dialogue with Thomas Aquinas
– Todd R. Chipman (associate professor of Biblical studies): “Why Does 1 John Read Like Molasses? The Role of Articular Substantival Participles in 1 John 2–3”
– Bradley Sinclair (Ph.D. student): “Retrieving Eternal Generation: John Gill, Nicaea, and the Enlightenment”
– Jason Doty (Ph.D. graduate): “Deconstructing Nero: Reading Revelation 13 with the Early Church”
– Jason L. Holm (Ph.D. student): “Sovereign Inclusion: The Unity of the Lucan Corpus Disclosed in the Holy Spirit-Gentile Motif”
– Paul L. Panter (Ph.D. graduate): “Recovering Conscientious Ecumenical Charity from Seventeenth-Century Puritanism”
– Jason G. Duesing (professor of historical theology): “Theology and History in an English Church: 500 Years in Oxford’s University Church”; moderator: Theology and History for the Church
– Andrew M. King (assistant professor of biblical studies): “Be Unto Others As YHWH Is Unto You: Justice and the Imitation of God in Hosea”
– Jesse Payne (adjunct instructor): “Learning to Smile Again: Examining Francis Schaeffer’s Pastoral Affect and Practice”; “Pneumatic Ethics: Carl F. H. Henry on the Dynamic Power of the Spirit for Holy Living”
– Thomas S. Kidd (research professor of Church history): “Thomas Jefferson and His Bible: A Reconsideration”
– Cody Cunningham (Ph.D. student): “In a State of Preparation for Heaven: Holiness and the Heavenly Theology of Abraham Booth”
– James A. Roh (Ph.D. student): “Isaianic Quotations and Motifs in John’s Gospel: A Case Study in the NT Use of the OT”
– Michael D. McMullen (professor of Church history): “Wilberforce’s Primary Preoccupation: Abolition or Sanctification?”
– John Mark Yeats (professor of Church history): “Mission, Conversion, & Social Justice: 19th Cent. Evangelical Missions with Jews in Britain”
– John J. R. Lee (associate professor of New Testament): “A Quest to Solve Mark’s Paradoxes” (with David Dickenson)
– David Dickenson (Ph.D. student): “A Quest to Solve Mark’s Paradoxes” (with John J. R. Lee)
– Dustin J. Coleman (Ph.D. student): “The Strategic Significance of the Resurrection Theme in Mark’s Gospel”
– Patrick Schreiner (associate professor of New Testament and Biblical theology): “The Meaning of Moses and Elijah Appearing at Jesus’s Transfiguration”
– Lucas J. Whitson (Ph.D. student): “Is Psalm 68 Inherently Cohesive? Functional Linguistics and Hebrew Psalms”
– Andy Needham (Ph.D. student): “How Social Trinitarianism Undermines the Holiness of God”
– Jonathan E. Swan (adjunct instructor): “Not by office, but by nature: John Gill’s Demonstration and Explanation of Eternal Generation”
– Geoffrey Chang (assistant professor of historical theology): Moderator: Church History (Spurgeon); “The Unpublished Poems and Private Spirituality of C. H. Spurgeon”
– Dillon M. Evans (Ph.D. student): “Spurgeon’s View of the Restoration of Israel”
– Colton Strother (Ph.D. student): “A Man of Profound Learning and Deep Piety: Charles Spurgeon’s Engagement with John Gill”
– Tom Kelby (Ph.D. student): “The King in the Psalter: An Argument for the Eschatological Messiah”
– N. Blake Hearson (professor of Old Testament and Hebrew): “The Radioactive Holiness of God and the Protective Role of the Priests: An Underdeveloped 3 – Theme”
– Sung Jin Park (associate professor of Biblical studies): “You Shall Purge the Evil: Legal Omission & Construction of the Illicit Sex Laws of Deut. 22:22–29”
– Catherine C. Garrison (Ph.D. student): “Modesty, Misogyny, and #metoo: A Biblical Exploration and Defense of Modesty and Why it Matters”
– Thorvald Madsen (professor of New Testament, ethics, and philosophy): “Let Our Eyes Be Opened: Matthew 20:29–34 and the Cost of Discipleship”
– Brandon M. Freeman (Ph.D. student): “The Son and Stone: Eternal Procession and Economic Mission in the Parable of the Wicked Tenants”
– Jason B. Alligood (adjunct instructor): “The Eternal Son as Instructor: Incarnation Anyway, Continued”
– Joseph R. Miller (Ph.D. graduate): “The Oberlin Movement and the New Theology of Holiness in the Second Great Awakening”
– Donnie L. DeBord (Ph.D. graduate): “Holiness as Divine Ontology Contrasted with Kenotic and Apollinarian Christologies”
– Jeff Moore (Ph.D. graduate): “Greater Sins in the Old and New Testaments: A Biblical Theological Appraisal”
To see more information about the event, visit mbts.edu/ets
