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9:00-9:50 AM, Baptist Bible Seminary
Chapel, Dr. Carson will be preaching
(You are welcome to join the BBS family for the regular Seminary chapel service
immediately prior to the conference.)
Registration will begin at 9:45 AM and continue through mid-afternoon. Note that there is no pre-registration; please register at the door when you arrive.
Registration costs:
ETS members (associate and full), $8.00
Non-members, $12.00
Students, $5.00 (whether student ETS members, or college/university/seminary students)
(Students from the host school, as is traditional for our regional conference, are granted free registration.)
Book tables will be available for browsing (& buying!) as of 10:45 AM.
There will be book tables from Baker, Zondervan, Hendrickson, Crossway, P&R, IVP, Kregel (& Eisenbrauns?). There will also be a large used book sale.
Map of display area (subject to change, but this will give you some idea where to find the books)
Parallel Sessions A, 10:05-10:45 AM
*Rm. 130, Daniel D. Inghram (Th.M. student, Capital Bible Seminary), "Turning the Other Cheek in Matthew 5:38-42"
*Rm. 207, Stephen Bowne (student, Geneva College), "The Unpardonable Sin in the Gospel of Mark"
*Rm. 208, Keith Miller (M.Div. student, Biblical Theological Seminary), "The Power of the Gospel over the Culture of the Heart (Rom. 2:29)"
Rm. 220, Jeff Riddle (Jefferson Park Baptist Church, Charlottesville, VA), "A Biblical Response to The Da Vinci Code"
*Rm. 221, Patrick Casey (M.Div. student, Southern Baptist Seminary), "Responding to Modern Liberalism in the Marketplace of Ideas"
Parallel Sessions B, 10:50-11:30 AM
Bancroft Chapel, R. Todd Mangum (Biblical Seminary), "Christian Duty and American Civic Duty: Mutually Exclusive, Merely Compatible, or Mutually Reinforcing Concepts?"
*Rm. 130, Eric Rowe (Th.M. student, Capital Bible Seminary), "He Shall Be Called a Nazarene"
*Rm. 207, Joseph C. Oliver (student, Geneva College), "The Use of ‘Son of Man’ in Mark’s Gospel"
*Rm. 208, Kevin John Boddecker (student, Philadelphia Biblical University), "Karl Barth’s Trinitarian Theology and the Problem of Atomic Warfare"
Rm. 220, Fred Putnam (Biblical Theological Seminary), "The Deceit of Metaphor and the Divine Name"
Rm. 221, C. Gordon Olson (Global Gospel Ministries), "Key Exegetical Reasons Why I Am Neither a Calvinist Nor an Arminian"
* Identifies Student Paper Competition sessions during Parallel Sessions A and B
11:30 AM-12:30 PM, Lunch (at local restaurants)
12:30-1:45 PM, Plenary Session 1 (Bancroft Chapel)
12:30-12:45 PM
Welcome & Announcements, Rodney J. Decker, Eastern ETS Region chair
Devotional, James Jeffery, president of Baptist Bible College, Graduate School, and Seminary12:45-1:45, D. A. Carson: "The Intolerance of Tolerance," part 1 (audio available)
1:50-3:10 PM, Plenary Session 2 (Bancroft Chapel)
Panel Discussion: "Current Evangelical Approaches to Popular Culture" (audio available)
1:50-2:10 PM, Mike Stallard (Baptist Bible Seminary), “Evangelical Theology and Culture: A Taxonomy”
2:10-2:30 PM, John Makujina (Central Baptist Seminary), “Forgotten Texts and Doctrines in Current Evangelical Responses to Culture”
2:30-2:45 PM, Respondent, Chris Simmons (Messiah College)
2:45-3:10 PM, Discussion (Makujina, Stallard, Simmons, Carson)
3:10-3:20 PM, Break
Parallel Sessions C, 3:20-4:00 PM
Bancroft Chapel, Mark Snoeberger (Detroit Baptist Seminary), "Noetic Sin, Neutrality, and Contextualization: How Culture Receives the Gospel"
Rm. 130, Will Honeycutt (Liberty University), "Getting from God to Christ: A Cumulative Case Apologetic for Christian Particularism"
Rm. 131, Bill Arp (Baptist Bible Seminary), "Lawsuits, Courts, and the Christian Testimony"
Rm. 207, David Young Pak (Washington Baptist College & Seminary), "Missiological Perspectives for the Culture and Communication of the Gospel"
Rm. 208, Gordon Franz, "Propaganda, Power, and the Perversion of Biblical Truths: Coins Illustrating the Book of Revelation"
Rm. 220, John Soden (Lancaster Bible College), "Culture or King-The Samson Narratives As a Literary Call to Evaluate Loyalties"
Rm. 221, Jack Delivuk (Geneva College), "Liberty of Conscience in the Westminster Confession and Its Application to the Modern Worship Wars"
3:30-4:00 PM, Executive committee meeting
4:00-4:25 PM, Refreshments
Parallel Sessions D, 4:25-5:05 PM
Bancroft Chapel, Carl Sanders (Washington Bible College), "Eschatology as Theological Response to Culture"
Rm. 130, Ken Gardoski (Baptist Bible Seminary), "Culture as a Reflection of the Imago Dei?"
Rm. 131, Jeff Downs (Resource Center for Theological Research), "Approaching Cults and World Religions from a Presuppositional Apologetic Perspective"
Rm. 207, Jason Poling (New Hope Community Church, Baltimore, MD), "Impolitic Truth: Upholding Supersessionism in the Face of Cultural and Theological Opposition"
Rm. 208, Jim King (Baptist Bible Seminary), "Artificial Intelligence and the Believer"
Rm. 220, David Hard (Philadelphia Biblical University), "What Is There Between Wittenberg and Zurich? The Use of Music in Worship As a Paradigm for a Response to Culture in the Theology and Practice of Martin Luther and Ulrich Zwingli"
5:05-5:15 PM, Break
5:15-7:00 PM, Plenary Session 3 (Bancroft Chapel)
5:15-30 PM, Business session, election of officers
5:30-6:30 PM, D. A. Carson: "The Intolerance of Tolerance," part 2 (audio available)
6:30-7:00 PM, Q & A with Dr. Carson
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First posted, 1/27/04; last edited 01/25/2005