Faculty, students participate in 68th annual ETS meeting

Twenty faculty members and nine students from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary will participate in the 68th annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) in San Antonio, Texas, Nov. 15-17. In addition, the seminary will present a special panel discussion on “Trinity and Gender” on the first night of the conference from 9-11 p.m.

Southwestern faculty and students taking part in the conference include:

Scott Aniol (assistant professor of church music): “Was Isaac Watts a Unitarian?”; moderator for “Biblical Worship”

Craig Blaising (executive vice president and provost): presenter and panelist for “Review of The Divine Name(s) and the Holy Trinity by Kendall Soulen”

D. Jeffrey Bingham (dean of the School of Theology): “Father, Son, and Spirit in Athenagoras”

Robert Caldwell (associate professor of church history): “The Holy Spirit as the Bond of Union in the ‘Objective’ Spirituality of Jonathan Edwards”; respondent for “John Cotton’s Place in Puritanism”

Jason Corn (Ph.D. student): “Answering Lamentations: Esther’s Role in the Megilloth”

S. Cameron Coyle (Ph.D. student): moderator for “Near East Archaeological Society A: Old Testament Archaeology”; “When Israel Grew Strong: Power and Identity at Biblical Gezer”

R. Adam Dodd (Ph.D. student): moderator for “Near East Archaeological Society B: Old Testament Archaeology”

Candi Finch (assistant professor of theology in women’s studies): “Reimagining God as Sophia: What Happens to the Trinity in the Hands of Feminist Theologians?”

Madison Grace (assistant professor of Baptist history and theology): “Laying on of Hands and the Reception of the Holy Spirit in Early Baptist Practice”

Jack L. Greenoe (adjunct professor of ethics): “The Ethics of the Trinity”

Steven James (assistant professor of systematic theology): “The Fulfillment of New Creation Promises in Revelation”

Katie McCoy (assistant professor of theology in women’s studies): “Protecting Victims or Promoting Violence? Whether Deut 22:23-29 Facilitated Sexual Assault”

David Norman (Ph.D. student): “Redeeming Booth: Abraham Booth and the Nature of the Atonement”

Steven Ortiz (professor of archaeology and biblical backgrounds): “Tel Gezer: The Transformation from the Canaanite City to Solomon’s Administrative-Fortress City”

Paige Patterson (president): “Three Illustrious Guests Invited To My SBC Dinner Party: The Theology and Preaching of Carlyle Marney, John Claypool and W.A.C.”

Benjamin Phillips (associate professor of systematic theology): moderator for “The Trinity: Intra-Trinitarian Relations”

Stephen Presley (associate professor of church history): “A Double-Minded Man? Reassessing Justin Martyr’s Binitarian Orientation”; “Toward a Coherent Concept of Landedness in the Book of Revelation”

Michael Scott Robertson (Ph.D. student): moderator for “New Testament: Texts and Textual Criticism”

Charles Savelle (assistant professor of biblical exposition): moderator for “Old Testament: Job and Ecclesiastes”

John Henry Serworwora (Ph.D. student): “Answering Trinity to Shi’ah: A Perspective on the Divine Nature of Christ and the Shi’ah Mahdi”

Harvey Solganick (professor of humanities): “Angling toward the Anglican Trinity: C.S. Lewis’ Triune God and His Implications for Evangelical Theology”

Bruno Soltic (Ph.D. student): “Revisiting Biblical Bamah/Bamot: Recent Trends in a Biblical Archaeology”

Ryan Stokes (associate professor of Old Testament): panelist for “Second Temple Jewish Literature and New Testament Interpretation”

Jake Strickland (bachelor’s student in Darrington prison program): “Justice Is Served: Luther’s Justification and Vocation in the Prison Context”

David Toledo (assistant professor of music ministry): “Freedom and Order in Worship: Paul’s Instructions in 1 Corinthians 14”; panelist for “Biblical Worship: Form and Freedom in Evangelical Worship”

Philip Webb (Ph.D. student): “Architecture and Christian Identity in the 4th-6th Centuries CE”

Joshua Williams (associate professor of Old Testament): moderator for “Textual Strategies in the Hebrew Bible: Textual Strategies of the Writings”

John D. Wilsey (assistant professor of history and Christian apologetics): respondent for “Contested Identities: From a Christian Republic to a National Civil Religion”; “‘Manifest Destiny’ and the ‘Last, Best Hope on Earth’: American Identity in the Civil Religious Expressions of John L. O’Sullivan and Abraham Lincoln”

Malcolm Yarnell (research professor of systematic theology): panelist for “Baptist Studies: Pastor-Theologians Among Baptists in America”; presenter and panelist for “Review of The Divine Name(s) and the Holy Trinity by Kendall Soulen”

For more information and a complete list of participants, visit etsjets.org.