Tyndale Fellowship Conference July 6-9

The Tyndale Fellowship conference is close at hand (July 6-9) and I thought I would take a few moments to highlight some papers that will be given.  For those that don’t know, the fellowship conference involves the co-meeting of a number of ‘study groups’ that work within various disciplines: OT, philosophy of religion, doctrine, NT, archaeology, Biblical theology, etc…

The theme of the OT group is on the OT and Christian proclamation.  Presenters will include Hugh Williamson, Daniel Block, Walter Moberly, and Gordon Wenham.

As for the Christian Doctrine group, Howard Marshall will discuss ‘Biblical and Systematic Theology’, Desmond Alexander will address the interface of doctrine and biblical theology; Mike Bird will raise the question ‘What if Luther had read the Dead Sea scrolls?’

In the NT group, there will be a major panel discussion of Richard Burridge’s Imitating Jesus book on NT ethics with Burridge as a respondent, also with John Nolland, Michael Thompson, Mike Bird and John Drane.  One of the sessional papers will be given by your truly on Paul’s use of military metaphors and what relationship that has to his ethics.

In the Ethics and Social Theology group, Jonathan Moo will be the plenary speaker with the title: ”Continuity, discontinuity and hope: the contribution of New Testament eschatology to a distinctively Christian environmental ethic’.  On a personal note, I studied with Jonathan at Gordon-Conwell and I must say he has the qualities of being both academically brilliant and very humble – rarely does one find these two in one person!

I know that Paul Helm and Wayne Grudem will be giving major papers, but I am not sure of the titles.