It’s not too early to make plans to come to next year’s conference. The theme is “Baptists and the Cross: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives” and will occur on August 30-31, 2010. A tentative schedule is posted below:
- 9:00 am Plenary session 1: Tom Schreiner (SBTS): “Atonement in the Pastoral Epistles, the Petrine Epistles, and Hebrews”
- 10:25 am Plenary Session 2: Stephen Wellum (SBTS), “Baptism and Crucicentrism”
- 11:45 am Plenary Session 3: D.W. Bebbington (University of Stirling and Baylor Univeristy), “English Baptist Crucicentrism from the 18th Century Onwards”
- 8:00 pm Plenary Session 4: Glendon Thompson (Toronto Baptist Seminary),
- “Preaching the Cross”
Tuesday, August 31
- 8:30 am Plenary Session 5: Maurice Dowling (Irish Baptist College), “Spurgeon and the Cross”
10:00 am Chapel
- 11:30 am Plenary Session 6: James Fuller (University of Indianapolis), “19th Century Southern Baptists and the Atoning Work of Christ”
- 2:30-3:40 pm Plenary Session 7: Danny Akin (SEBTS), “The Cross and Pastoral Ministry”
Make plans now to attend! For those who desire to present papers on the conference them in the conference's parallel sessions, see the below Call for Papers.
We are currently accepting paper proposals for next year’s conference. We have a limited number of spaces (between a dozen and sixteen) available for the parallel sessions which should be about 5,000 words in length and able to be delivered in approximately 30 minutes. Potential speakers need to e-mail the Center (andrewfullercenter@sbts.edu) with a title and brief outline of their proposal as well as a brief resume before December 31, 2009. The topic of these papers must fall within the theme of the conference, namely, “Baptists and the Cross.” Submission of a proposal does not guarantee acceptance.