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Tuesday, November 13 9:00 AM‒12:10 PM Tuesday, November 13 9:00 AM‒12:10 PM P ︎ 9:00 AM-12:10 PM Gerry Breshears (Western Seminary) 8:15 AM - 8:45 AM Biblical Theology Morning Prayer Plaza Building‒Concourse Level 9:00 AM̶9:40 AM Governor's Square 16 Join us for a simple worship service Mary L. Conway (McMaster Divinity College) of scripture and prayer Moderator: James M. Hamilton Gender in Genesis 1‒3 in Jr. Conversation with 1 Timothy 2 (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) 9:50 AM̶10:30 AM 9:00 AM̶9:40 AM P ︎ 9:00 AM-12:10 PM David E. Malick Trevor Laurence (Independent Expositor) American Christianity (University of Exeter) Narrative Structure, A Review Session of Believe Me: Serpent Seed and Son of God: The Characterization, and Women in The Evangelical Road to Donald Enemy and Imprecator in the Psalms Mark 15:40-41 Trump by John Fea of Vengeance 10:40 AM̶11:20 AM Tower Building‒Mezzanine Level 9:50 AM̶10:30 AM Timothy Paul Erdel Silver Andy Naselli (Bethel College) (Bethlehem College & Seminary) Exploring the Garden of Feminine Moderator: Miles S. Mullin II Kill the Dragon, Get the Girl: A Motifs in Song of Songs (Hannibal-LaGrange University) Biblical Theology of Snakes and 11:30 AM̶12:10 PM 9:00 AM̶9:15 AM Dragons Andy Draycott Miles S. Mullin II 10:40 AM̶11:20 AM (Talbot School of Theology, Biola (Hannibal-LaGrange University) David S. Schrock University) Introduction of the book and the (Indianapolis Theological Seminary) Walking across Gender in the Spirit? presenters A Family of Royal Priests: Why the The Vocation of the Church and the Transgender Christian 9:15 AM̶9:45 AM Priesthood of Believers Must Be "In Christ" Justin Taylor * (Crossway) 11:30 AM̶12:10 PM P ︎ 9:00 AM-12:10 PM 9:50 AM̶10:20 AM Max Rogland (Erskine Theological Seminary) Johannine Literature Gary Steward Esther: Type of Christ, Type of the Unity and Diversity: Connections (Colorado Christian University) Church, or No Type At All? between the Fourth Gospel and 10:25 AM̶10:55 AM Revelation Jemar Tisby Tower Building‒Mezzanine Level (University of Mississippi) P ︎ 9:00 AM-12:10 PM Denver Evangelicals and Gender 11:00 AM̶11:20 AM Moderators: Gender in Biblical Perspective Respondent: John Fea* Robert W. Yarbrough (Messiah College) Plaza Building‒Concourse Level (Covenant Theological Seminary) Plaza Court 6 Edward W. Klink III 11:25 AM̶12:10 PM (Hope Church) Panel and Audience Discussion Moderators: Cynthia Long Westfall (McMaster Divinity College) * 70th Annual Meeting // Holy Spirit 13 Tuesday, November 13th 9:00 AM‒12:10 PM Stanley E. Porter 9:50 AM̶10:30 AM 10:40 AM̶11:20 AM (McMaster Divinity College) Matthew McAffee Michael Licona (Welch College) (Houston Baptist University) 9:00 AM̶9:40 AM Lexicography and the Comparative What do We Mean by the Term Stanley E. Porter Method: Some Methodological "Historically Reliable"? A Proposal of (McMaster Divinity College) Considerations Definition and Criteria The Language(s) of John's Gospel and Revelation: What Do the 10:40 AM̶11:20 AM 11:30 AM̶12:10 PM Similarities and Differences Tell Us? Stephen J. Andrews Ji Hoe Kim (Midwestern Baptist Theological (McMaster Divinity College) 9:50 AM̶10:30 AM Seminary) Hallidayan Approach to Orality and Dana M. Harris The Ketef Hinnom Inscriptions and Textuality and its Implications for (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) the Existence of Apotropaic Texts in Synoptic Gospel Studies The Spirit in the Fourth Gospel and the Hebrew Bible the Book of Revelation * 11:30 AM̶12:10 PM P ︎ 9:00 AM-12:10 PM 10:40 AM̶11:20 AM Jordan W. Jones Douglas Estes (Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute Theology for Counseling (South University, Columbia) of Religion) and Pastoral Care Imagination in Johannine Thought: The Outstretched Hand of Lady Union with Christ, Sanctification, From the Fourth Gospel to Wisdom in Prov 1:24 and Analogous Revelation Texts from the Ancient Near East & Psychotherapy: Reflections on Eric L. Johnson's God and Soul 11:30 AM̶12:10 PM Care (IVP, 2017) Mark Wilson P ︎ 9:00 AM-12:10 PM Plaza Building‒Concourse Level (Stellenbosch University) Governor's Square 12 A Spring of Living Water: Metaphors Synoptic Gospels for Spirit in the Fourth Gospel and Tower Building‒Mezzanine Level Moderator: Stephen P. Greggo Revelation Gold (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) Moderator: Michael H. Burer 9:00 AM̶9:40 AM P ︎ 9:00 AM-12:10 PM (Dallas Theological Seminary) Steven L. Porter (Biola University) Old Testament 9:00 AM̶9:40 AM A Theological Review of Union with Backgrounds / Ancient John Lee Christ in God & Soul Care (Midwestern Baptist Theological Near East Seminary) 9:40 AM̶10:20 AM Comparative Methodology The Synoptic Jesus Exclusively as an Keith Palmer* Plaza Building‒Concourse Level Idealized Human Figure? A Response (Grace Bible Church) Plaza Court 8 to Kirk’s Proposal Biblical Counseling Perspectives on God & Soul Care Moderator: Matthew McAffee 9:50 AM̶10:30 AM (Welch College) Zachary K. Dawson 10:30 AM̶11:10 AM (McMaster Divinity College) Fred Gingrich* 9:00 AM̶9:40 AM Gospels and Genre Theory: Detailing (Denver Seminary) Kenton F. Williams the Problems in Gospel Research and Integration Perspectives on God & (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) a Way Forward Soul Care A King’s Speech: Royal Ideology in 1 Sam 17:31-37 * 14 70th Annual Meeting // Holy Spirit Tuesday, November 13 9:00 AM‒12:10 PM 11:10 AM̶11:35 AM A 9:00 AM-12:10 PM 9:00 AM̶9:40 AM Eric L. Johnson Evangelical Philosophical Kirk R. MacGregor (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) (McPherson College) God & Soul Care: The Therapeutic Society A2 In Defense of Molina’s Doctrine of Resources of the Christian Faith Tower Building‒2nd Floor Supercomprehension (IVP, 2017) Tower Court C 9:50 AM̶10:30 AM 11:35 AM̶12:10 PM Moderator: Brandon Rickabaugh Douglas Groothuis Panel Discussion (Baylor University) (Denver Seminary) Lament as Christian Apologetic 9:00 AM̶9:40 AM Travis Dickinson 10:40 AM̶11:20 AM A 9:00 AM-12:10 PM (Southwestern Baptist Theological Clay Jones Evangelical Philosophical Seminary) (Biola University) Society A1 An Evidentialist Model of Faith How Immortality Projects and Mortality Mitigation Projects Fail Tower Building‒2nd Floor 9:50 AM̶10:30 AM Tower Court B Liz Jackson 11:30 AM̶12:10 PM (University of Notre Dame) James S. Spiegel Moderator: Randy Everist Epistemic Permissivism and Pascal’s (Taylor University) (University of Birmingham) Wager The Virtue of Open-Mindedness: 9:00 AM̶9:40 AM Benefits and Risks 10:40 AM̶11:20 AM Angus J.L. Menuge James Elliott (Concordia University Wisconsin) (Purdue University) Vindicating the Dilemma for A 9:00 AM-12:10 PM On the Incompatibility of Faith and Evolutionary Ethics: A Response to Intellectual Humility Near East Archaeological Erik Wielenberg Society A 11:30 AM̶12:10 PM 9:50 AM̶10:30 AM General Biblical Archaeology David E. Alexander Chris D. Lee Plaza Building‒Concourse Level (Huntington University) (Southwestern Baptist Theological Governor's Square 17 Seminary) Anthony Bryson A Lewis‒Plantinga Response to (Arizona Christian University) Moderator: Donald McNeeley The Harmony of Christian Belief and Epistemic Skepticism Regarding (Tidewater Bible College) Religious Experience Epistemic Internalism 9:00 AM̶9:40 AM 10:40 AM̶11:20 AM Ralph Hawkins W. Paul Franks A 9:00 AM-12:10 PM (Averett University) (Tyndale University College) Evangelical Philosophical Khirbet ʿAuja el-Foqa and the Moral Arguments, Objectivity, and Manasseh-Ephraim Boundary Obligation Society A3 Description (Josh 16:6-7) Tower Building‒2nd Floor 11:30 AM̶12:10 PM Tower Court D 9:50 AM̶10:30 AM Michael W. Austin John Wineland (Eastern Kentucky University) Moderator: Tim Hsiao (Southeastern University) Hursthouse, Humility, and Human (Grantham University) Archaeological Surveys on the Karak Flourishing Plateau: Evidence for Nabateans 70th Annual Meeting // Holy Spirit 15 Tuesday, November 13th 9:00 AM‒12:10 PM 10:40 AM̶11:20 AM Charles Simeon and the Holy Spirit: T 9:00 AM-12:10 PM A Biblical Middle in an Age of Boyd Seevers Holy Spirit - New (University of Northwestern ‒ St. Paul) Extremes Testament Victoria Dennis 11:30 AM̶12:10 PM (University of Northwestern ‒ St. Paul) General Studies Slinging in the Biblical World: Justin McLendon Tower Building‒Mezzanine Level (Grand Canyon University) Methods, Capabilities, and Century Herman Bavinck and Church Ammunition Discipline: Exploring the Visibility of Moderator: David Alan Reed 11:30 AM̶12:10 PM the Spirit's Ruling Power (United Methodist Church - Detroit Mark A. Hassler Conference) (Virginia Beach Theological Seminary) 9:00 AM̶9:40 AM Katherine A. Streckert T 9:00 AM-12:10 PM Sungmin Joe Park (University of Northwestern̶St. Paul) Holy Spirit - Church History (University of Aberdeen) The Early Roman Weapons and General Studies Trinitarian Mystery in the Three Northern Fortification Tower at Kh. Tower Building‒Terrace Level Baptisms in Luke‒Acts el-Maqatir: A Preliminary Report Biltmore 9:50 AM̶10:30 AM Moderator: Nathan Tarr Doug Holm T 9:00 AM-12:10 PM (Christ Baptist Church) (Denver Seminary) Holy Spirit - Church 1 Peter’s Use of the Holy Spirit 9:00 AM̶9:40 AM History Nathan Tarr 10:40 AM̶11:20 AM 18th-19th Century (Christ Baptist Church) S. M. Baugh Tower Building‒Terrace Level "The Elegancy of the Holy Ghost": (Westminster Seminary California) Terrace The Holy Spirit and Aesthetics in the Whose Spirit? Christ’s Spirit or the Puritan Plain Style Holy Spirit in Hebrews 9:14 Moderator: William T. Chandler (Rock Haven Baptist Church) 9:50 AM̶10:30 AM 11:30 AM̶12:10 PM William M. Marsh Rodolfo Galvan Estrada III 9:00 AM̶9:40 AM (Cedarville University) (LABI College) Michael D. McMullen The Holy Spirit as the Eternal Contending for the Spirit in the (Midwestern Baptist Theological "Listener" in Luther’s Sermons on the Letter of Jude Seminary) Gospel of John The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit in the Life and Unpublished Writings of 10:40 AM̶11:20 AM T 9:00 AM-12:10 PM William Wilberforce Brian L.
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