The 61st annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society will take place on November 18-20, 2009, in my old stomping grounds of New Orleans, Louisiana. Southern Seminary’s own Professor Bruce A. Ware serves as President of the Society this year. I am looking forward to introducing some of my Southern Seminary folk to the glories of crawfish, Barq’s root beer, and shrimp poboys. Do not worry, Albert Mohler, I know this town infinitely better than I know San Antonio so you can trust my restaurant choices.
The tentative program schedule has recently been announced, and lots of our faculty and students will be presenting papers at this year’s meeting. These include:
─Gregg Allison (Professor of Christian Theology), “Theological Interpretation of Scripture: Promises and Pitfalls for an Evangelical Appropriation”
─Gregg Allison, Respondent: Overview of Exploring Ecclesiology
─Denny Burk (Dean, Boyce College), “Why Evangelicals Should Ignore Brian McLaren: How the New Testament Requires Evangelicals to Render Judgment on the Moral Status of Homosexuality”
─William T. Chandler (Ph.D. Student), “Casuistry or the Divine Command to Protect Life: Karl Barth and the Abortion Question”
─Mark Coppenger (Professor of Apologetics), “Retribution: The Key to Biblical Justice”
─Keith Goad (Ph.D. Student), “A Ruled Reading of Scripture: Learning to Do Theological Interpretation from Gregory the Theologian”
─Keith Goad, “Gregory of Nazianzus’ Trinitarian Doctrine of Unity”
─Adam Greenway (Assoc VP for Extension Studies; Professor of Evangelism), “Defender of the Faith: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of R. A. Torrey”
─Andrew Hassler (Ph.D. Student), “Justification and the Individual in Light of the New Perspective on Paul”
─Michael Haykin (Professor of Church History), Moderator: Baptist Studies
─Eric Johnson (Hoover Professor of Pastoral Care), “Christian Salvation as the Speech-Acts of God”
─Barry Joslin (Associate Professor of New Testament, Boyce College), “The How and Why of It: New Covenant Promises and Direct Connection between Hebrews 8 and 9”
─Kenneth Magnuson (Associate Professor of Chrisitan Ethics), Moderator: Framing Christian Ethics
─Russell Moore (Dean, Professor of Christian Theology and Ethics), “A Review and Critique of Frame’s The Doctrine of the Christian Life”
─Russell Moore, “The Kingdom of God in the Social Ethics of Carl F. H. Henry: A Twenty-First Century Evangelical Reappraisal”
─Russell Moore, “Adoption and the Renewal of Creation: How the Church’s Mission to Orphan Care Can Reshape Evangelical Eschatology and Ecclesiology”
─Tom Nettles (Professor of Historical Theology and Church History), “The Particular Baptist Defense of Beginning Anew”
─David Puckett (Professor of Church History), “Wilberforce and ‘Lesser’ Evils”
─Seth M. Rodriguez (Ph.D. Student), “Site Identification: In Search of a Methodology”
─Robert Sagers (Ph.D. Student), “Church Membership and the Kingdom of God”
─Robert Stein (Senior Professor of New Testament), “The Voice of Jesus in Snodgrass’s Treatment of the Parables”
─Bruce Ware (Professor of Christian Theology), “A Defense of the Ontological Equality and Functional Authority-Submission Relations among the Three Trinitarian Persons”
