KANSAS CITY, Mo—Midwestern Seminary faculty members, graduates, and Ph.D. students will be represented in 41 presentations at the 76th annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society next week in San Diego, California. The theme of this year’s conference is Global Evangelicalism.
“I am, once again, greatly encouraged by Midwestern Seminary’s presence at this year’s Evangelical Theological Society’s annual meeting,” said President Jason Allen. “Our representation from both faculty and students demonstrates that we are making great progress in producing scholar-pastors and scholar-teachers for the Church.”
Also commenting on Midwestern Seminary’s representation at ETS’s annual meeting, Jason Duesing, provost of Midwestern Seminary, said, “Presenting one’s research at ETS is a significant accomplishment for both the seasoned scholar and the Ph.D. student. More than that, it proves a helpful venue for the sharpening of one’s research for future publication. I am grateful for all these that will have that opportunity this year as they represent the community of scholars at Midwestern Seminary.”
The names, presentation times, and topics of each Midwestern Seminary representative taking part in the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society can be seen below.
Wednesday, November 20
| Session Time | Speaker | Topic |
| 8:30 am – 9:10 am | Charles Musil | Out of Egypt: An Exodus from Minimalism in Hosea’s Use of Exodus |
| 8:30 am – 9:10 am | Joel Whitson | ‘Man and God Blended’: Analysis of Pre-Chalcedonian Mixture Christology |
| 9:20 am – 10:00 am | Joshua Bremerman | Holy Meat and Dead Bodies: How Jesus Reverses Haggai 2:10–14 in Mark 5:21–43 |
| 9:20 am – 10:00 am | Michael La Framboise | Adorning the Gospel or Stripping it Bare: Case Studies in Christian Nationalism |
| 11:00 am – 11:25 am | Kenneth E. Ortiz | Billy Graham’s (Understudied) Formula for Evangelism and Its Impact on the Global Spread of Evangelicalism |
| 11:00 am – 11:40 am | Geoff Chang | Theological Diversity at the Pastors’ College under Charles Haddon Spurgeon |
| 11:00 am – 11:40 am | Jason G. Duesing | Isaac Backus and Baptist History |
| 11:00 am – 11:40 am | Timothy Hare | “Healing for the Nations”: Seeing Jesus as the Fulfillment and Embodiment of the Tree of Life |
| 1:00 pm – 1:40 pm | Jason S. DeRouchie | Zephaniah’s Macrostructure: A Textlinguistic-Rhetorical Analysis |
| 1:00 pm – 1:40 pm | Patrick Schreiner | The Four Senses of Scripture: Recovering an Ancient Way of Reading for Today |
| 1:00 pm – 1:40 pm | Lucas Whitson | Ephesians 4:8 as a Composite Citation of Psalm 68:19a, 36b |
| 1:50 pm – 2:30 pm | Daniel Graham | How Discourse Markers Shape Continuity and Discontinuity in Prophetic Speech |
| 3:30 pm – 4:10 pm | Quinn R. Mosier | The Forgotten Samuel Stillman: “The Baptist Bishop of New England” |
Thursday, November 21
| Session Time | Speaker | Topic |
| 8:30 am – 9:10 am | J. Alan Branch | Surrogate Motherhood: A Christian Ethical Analysis |
| 8:30 am – 9:10 am | Trevor Cartwright | Grace Out of Salvation’s Well: Early American Methodism and John Wesley’s Eucharistic Piety |
| 8:30 am – 9:10 am | Catherine C. Garrison | How Biblical Ethics for Sex and Family Benefit Women and Children and Abate ‘Need’ for Abortion |
| 8:30 am – 9:10 am | Jonathan Swan | “A more mature consideration”: Developments of Thought in John Gill’s Trinitarianism |
| 9:20 am – 10:00 am | Joshua Thomas | “Setting Up Christ Kingdome Among the Indians”: John Eliot’s Motivation for His Mission |
| 10:10 am – 10:50 am | Michael S. Brooks | An Intellectual of Consequence: Francis Wayland & the Origin of the Most Popular Ethics Textbook |
| 11:00 am – 11:40 am | Thomas S. Kidd | Secularism, Persecution, and Fertility: Present Realities and Future Hope for the Global Church |
| 11:00 am – 11:40 am | John J. R. Lee | Who Do You Say that I Am? A Holistic Approach to New Testament Divine Christology |
| 3:00 pm – 3:40 pm | Todd Chipman | Faith and the Future: The Articular Substantival Participle of πιστεύω in John’s Gospel |
| 3:50 pm – 4:30 pm | Timothy Howe | Ruth: The Book of Answered Prayer |
| 4:40 pm – 5:20 pm | Christy Allen | Biblical Foundations for the Necessity of Spiritual Mothers in the Church |
Friday, November 22
| Session Time | Speaker | Topic |
| 8:30 am – 9:10 am | Jared Bumpers | “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?”: The Challenge of Finding and Preaching Jesus in James |
| 9:20 am – 10:00 am | Connor Shackleford | A Metaphysical Image of God and the Possibility of Natural Theology |
| 10:10 am – 10:50 am | Tom Kelby | Seeing the Psalmists as Seers: Evidence Connecting the Psalms to Prophets and to Prophecy |
| 11:00 am – 11:40 am | Caleb Morell | You Shall Not Slay Our Sisters: Christian Women And the Global Social Purity Movement, 1870-1910 |
| 11:00 am – 11:40 am | Samuel Pirrotta | A Biblical Case for the Office and Work of the Evangelist |
| 2:00 pm – 2:40 pm | Branden Preedy | “Earnest to Maintain Religious Liberty”: Understanding C.H. Spurgeon’s Political Theology |
| 2:00 pm – 2:40 pm | Ioan Veres | AI Robots: The Neighbor Love Framework as a Tool for Navigating the Ethics of Social Robots |
| 2:50 pm – 3:30 pm | Ross Harmon | Luke’s use of “the Way” in Acts 9-24 as an Ethnicity Equalizer |
| 2:50 pm – 3:30 pm | John L. Inman III | Jonathan Edwards Pedagogical Homiletics at Stockbridge Based on Analysis of Sermon Series |
| 2:50 pm – 3:30 pm | Thorvald Madsen | “Everyone Will Be Salted with Fire”: Mark 9:49-50 and the Risk of Persecution |
| 3:40 pm – 4:20 pm | Taylor Lassiter | Still One Race, One Gospel, One Task? Returning to the 1966 Berlin Congress on World Evangelism |
| 3:40 pm – 4:20 pm | Bradley Sinclair | John Gill the Patristic Scholar? Examining the Evidence |
| 4:30 pm – 5:10 pm | Taylor DiRoberto | Keep His Commandments: Reevaluating the Presence of Torah in Qoheleth’s Discourse |
To see more information about the event, visit mbts.edu/ets.
