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Midwestern Seminary faculty members and Ph.D. students will be represented in 50+ sessions at the 75th annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society held on Nov. 14-16 in San Antonio, Texas. Seminary representatives will present scholarly papers and moderate sessions on the theme of this year’s meeting, “Theological Anthropology.”

Scroll down to learn more about the papers being presented by MBTS faculty and Ph.D. students at this year’s annual meeting.

View the ETS website to learn more about specific presentation times.

 

Tuesday, Nov. 14th

Session Time Speaker Topic
9:00 am – 9:40 am Gary Pauley

Walter Rauschenbusch’s Reactionary Kingdom: The Pragmatic Theology of the Social Gospel

9:50 am – 10:30 am Charles Ackmann Revelation as Conclusion: Reading Revelation for Intentional Resolution of New Testament Themes
9:50 am – 10:30 pm Zachary Salsbury The Social Gospel and Postmillennialism: A Critique of Quandt’s Secularization Thesis
10:40 am – 11:20 am Michael Brooks On Piety and Civic Virtue: Early Baptist Attempts at Holding the Dual Aims of American Higher Education in Proper Tension
10:40 am – 11:20 am Lance English The Metaphysics of Pure Actuality: Act, Potency, and the Nature of Reality
11:30 am – 12:10 pm Quinn R. Mosier Does Sending Imply Subordination?: The Envoy Revealer Model and John’s Christology
2:50 pm – 3:30 pm J. Alan Branch Developmental Personhood: A Critique of Secular Bioethics’ Major Premise from the Perspective of Theological Anthropology
2:50 pm – 3:30 pm Richard Killingsworth A Response to Transgenderism and Nonbinary Identity Theory
2:50 pm – 3:30 pm Jason S. DeRouchie Punishing the Insubordinate Son: How Deut. 21:18-21’s Death Penalty Applies to Families Today
2:50 pm – 3:30 pm Timothy A. Gatewood The Sounder Scholastic as a Soundboard: Thomas, the Reformed Scholastics, and Divine Knowledge
3:40 pm – 4:20 pm Todd R. Chipman Roles in Revelation: The Function of Articular Substantival Participles in the Apocalypse
3:40 pm – 4:20 pm Matthew Barrett Participatory Anthropology: Essence, Existence, and the Absence of Virtue in Systematic Theology
3:40 pm – 4:20 pm David Young An Investigation into the Place and Nature of Sexual Offenses in Leviticus 18-20
4:30 pm – 5:10 pm Radu Gheorghita Intratextuality in the Hebrew and Greek Textual Traditions: The Book of the Twelve as Test Case
4:30 pm – 5:10 pm Kenneth E. Ortiz The Theological Anthropology of Carl F. H. Henry and its Impact upon Contemporary Evangelicals
4:30 pm – 5:10 pm Jared Bumpers Kept by God: Preservation and Perseverance in Jude
4:30 pm – 5:10 pm John J. R. Lee Advances and Limitations in Recent Studies of Pauline Divine Christology
4:30 pm – 5:10 pm Brandon M. Freeman Living Stones in God’s New Temple: The Ecclesial Metaphor of “Stone”
4:30 pm – 5:10 pm Tom Kelby Psalm 8’s Two-Layered Meaning In Hebrews and Why Both Matter for Humanity

Wednesday, Nov. 15th

Session Time Speaker Topic
8:30 am – 9:10 a.m Charles W. Smith Grace In Action: The Nature and Necessity of Missional Leadership
8:30 am – 9:10 a.m Thomas S. Kidd “John Brown is Immortal”: Charles Spurgeon, the American Press, and the Ordeal of Slavery
9:20 am – 10:00 am Geoffrey Chang “A Church of Our Faith and Order”: Oversight and Autonomy in Spurgeon’s Church Planting
10:10 am – 10:50 am Matthew Warren The “Parallax” Principle: The Immutability and Impassibility of the Triune God According to C. H. Spurgeon
10:10 am – 10:50 am William J. Rogers, Jr. Fulfilling the Image of God in the Body of Christ
10:10 am – 10:50 am Taylor F. DiRoberto Isaiah’s Servant and the Second Exodus: New Moses or New David?
11:00 am – 11:40 am Caleb Morell The Rise and Fall of the Office of Ruling Elder in the Philadelphia Baptist Association, 1688-1798
11:00 am – 11:40 am Ioan Veres Tillich and Technology: An Analysis of Tillich’s Concept of Humanization in an Age of Technology
3:15 pm – 3:55 pm Mark L. Richardson (Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary) Corruption of the Imago Dei: TheMotif, Giants, and Jude 5-7
4:05 pm – 4:45 pm J. Seward Gelatt Reassessing Justice in Isaiah 40-55
4:05 pm – 4:45 pm Joshua Bremerman The Chief End of Man in Ecclesiastes 12:9–14: Fear God and Enjoy Him Forever?
4:05 pm – 4:45 pm Joe Allen III The Theological Dimension of Early Islam’s Triumph over Christianity
4:55 pm – 5:35 pm Spencer Stewart A Case Study of Pro-life Education and a Practical Model for Persuasive Outcomes
5:00 pm – 5:30 pm Patrick Schreiner New Testament Scholar’s Perspective
5:45 pm – 6:25 pm Travis James Montgomery The People of the God of Gods: The Covenant Formula as a Theopolitical Statement
5:45 pm – 6:25 pm B. Jason Epps Unexpected Destruction: An Exegetical and Thematic Study of Ironic in 2 Kings
5:45 pm – 6:25 pm Taylor Lassiter A Risen Savior, a Regenerate Community, and a Redeeming Mission: Carl Henry’s View of Conversion

 

 

Thursday, Nov. 16th

Session Time Speaker Topic
1:00 pm – 1:40 pm Jacob D. Rainwater Divine Appropriation, The Divine Decree, and the Pactum Salutis
1:00 pm – 1:40 pm Bradley Sinclair Interpreting With the Ancients: John Gill and Classical Hermeneutics
1:50 pm – 2:30 pm Jason B. Doty Home Is Where the Christ Is: Atonement and Abiding in John 14:1-6
1:50 pm – 2:30 pm Ross Daniel Harmon Luke’s Use of “The Way” to Describe Christianity: Jesus’ Followers as Living in Right Relationship
1:50 pm – 2:30 pm Jason B. Alligood Glorification as Anthropological Escalation and Divine Participation
1:50 pm – 2:30 pm Christopher E. Green Baptist Catholicity in the Ecclesiology of John Gill
2:40 pm – 3:20 pm Connor Shackelford Doing Theology in the Image of God: John Webster’s “Redeemed Intelligence” and the Imago Dei
3:30 pm – 4:10 pm Patrick Schreiner A Minority Report on ‘Fulfilling All Righteousness’
3:30 pm – 4:10 pm Tom Wadsworth ÉÇÊÁÍżėÅ Does Not Mean “Worship”