Theologians Without Borders (TWB) team members will be at the ETS Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, in November 2023. Dr Ian Payne and Dr Stephanie Black will be there. This is your chance to meet up with us. Share our excitement: Majority World seminaries are asking Theologians Without Borders to help find tutors—for both online and increasingly in-person teaching visits. Travel restrictions have eased and so more in-person visits are being welcomed. Can you help? Use your theological training to bless the global church.

The Center for Classical Theology is pleased to announce its inaugural lecture. Carl R. Trueman will deliver this inaugural lecture and his address is titled, “Why we need classical theology now more than ever.” The lecture will take place at 6:30pm on November 13th (the day before the meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society) in San Antonio, TX at the Henry Gonzalez Convention Center (Room 225CD). The lecture will be followed by a dialogue between Carl Trueman, Matthew Barrett, and other theologians. Seating is limited.

Journal of Biblical and Theological Studies

JBTS Call for Papers
9.1 Ecclesiology

The Journal of Biblical and Theological Studies, a peer-reviewed, open access journal, invites scholarly submissions for a forthcoming issue on Ecclesiology. JBTS is an interdenominational, broadly evangelical journal that seeks to provide high-level scholarship to both scholars and students. In this special issue, we seek a broad engagement with the Doctrine of the Church. Potential topics can range from the church’s identity, its mission and/or how the church relates to the state and society, its sacraments, its unity and diversity, catholicity, ecumenism, or practical concerns that today’s church encounters. For inquires, contributors may reach out to justin.mclendon@gcu.edu. Deadline for submission is 12/1/2023. Article guidelines can be found here.

If you were not able to join us in Denver for the 2022 annual meeting, or if you were there and want to listen to sessions that you missed, you can order recordings here.

Thanks to WordMp3 for recording these sessions and making them available! Plenary sessions and the Presidential address will be posted here when they are available.

ETS Full Members,

The following is information regarding the amendments to the ETS Bylaws that will be voted on at the 2022 business meeting in Denver on Thursday, November 17.

As you recall, 15 amendments proposed by the Executive Director and approved by the Board were read at the 2021 business meeting in Forth Worth. The amendments seek to bring our bylaws in line with our existing practices and procedures, to clarify policies, and to update the language of our bylaws.

With the support of the John Templeton Foundation, the University of St. Thomas (MN) announces The Psychology and Theology of Faith sub-granting competition, to fund academic cross-training in the psychological sciences for scholars of Christian theology or philosophy of religion with research interests relating to religious belief or religious commitment.

Dear Members,

If you have not received ETS emails over the past weeks, months, even years, you may have an old (or bad) email address on file, or you may have unsubscribed from an email that came from ETS in the past. Whether intentional or not, that would prevent you from receiving announcements about paper proposals in the spring, conference registration and information (including special events), new books and specials from publishers, and any other email that ETS sends out.

JETS 65.1 is available online. We continue to experience long lead times for printing, but hope to print and ship this issue before the end of August. The JETS team is working to reduce the production time in order to get future issues out as quickly as possible.

As a reminder, members can access the entire JETS (and BETS) pdf archives here.

The 2022 ETS Annual Meeting session draft is now available for review. All edits to individual or session information must be emailed to meeting@etsjets.org by July 15th. Click here to view the draft.

The Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies XXXIV 2022 on: “The Arts & Transcendence: In Search of Beauty, Truth & Goodness.” Mss. Deadline: April 15, 2022. Call for Papers attached; on JIS web: https://www.jis3.org/callforpapers2022

Download the flyer: JIS Call for Papers.

Early registration is open now through May 31st. Information and a link for online registration and banquet tickets, as well as a form for mail in registration, is available here: Register for the 2022 Annual Meeting.

Your membership must be current in order to register at member rates. If you need to renew your membership, visit this page: Link for membership renewal.

If you need help with your login, please contact member-care@etsjets.org.

There were so many excellent presentations at the 2021 Annual Meeting in Fort Worth, and they are available here.

Thanks to WordMp3 for recording these sessions and making them available! Here are the Plenary Sessions and the Presidential Address (for the rest of the sessions, see the link above):

ETS2021 Plenary 1: Michael Andres, "Poor Theology: A Christian Theology of Poverty and Wealth"

ETS2021 Plenary 2: Anne Bradley, "Complements not Substitutes: Biblical Human Flourishing and Economic Freedom"

ETS2021 EPS Plenary: Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung, "What Are You Guarding? Anger and Its Antidotes from the Christian Tradition"

ETS2021 Presidential Address: R. Albert Mohler, "The Temptations of an Evangelical Theologian"

ETS2021 Plenary 3: from Brian Fikkert, "Getting Our Story Straight: Homo Economicus or Homo Imago Dei?"

Here is a great website that might help you find parking within your desired price range if driving to the Annual Meeting. Fort Worth Parking Information

You may also desire to use the Trinity Railway Express and or the TEXRAIL if you are coming from the Grapevine or Dallas areas.

TEXRAIL Schedule

Trinity Railway Express

2022 Hybrid Teaching and Learning Workshop opportunities from the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion:

Mid-Career Faculty Teaching at Evangelical Theological Schools & Seminaries

Early Career Religion Faculty Teaching Undergraduates

ETS Members and JETS Subscribers:

Thank you for your patience as we had production delays for JETS 64.2. There have also been printing and shipping delays, but 64.2 should be mailed by mid-October.

Meanwhile, members now have access to the entire issue online here: JETS 64.2

Dear Members,

It has recently come to our attention that some members have not received ETS emails.* After looking into the matter, it is likely due to the member unsubscribing from an email that came from ETS, which prevents all future emails to that email address. In some cases the member was unaware of having unsubscribed from ETS emails.

As part of the Society of Christian Philosophers cross-training fellowship program, we are excited to announce a funding competition to support invited speakers to come to campus and give scientifically engaged talks. 6 grants are available for up to $2,000 each. This competition is open to members of the SCP, EPS, ETS, and ACPA. Please share with anyone who might be interested!

For more details and application instructions, please visit: https://kevintimpe.com/scientifically-engaged-lectures-grant/

Posted 6/7/2021

Zaporozhye Bible Seminary is a school in the heart of the Bible Belt of the former Soviet Union. ZBS has been serving the Baptist Union in the Zaporozhye Region in Ukraine since 1991.

The ZBS Master of Theology program is in need of qualified professors, who can teach on a modular basis (one week physically there or from the US via Zoom teaching for one week in the afternoons). The ZBS MTh program has been running since 2012.

We seek those with a doctorate or doctoral candidates to teach a Master’s level course within their area of specialty.

The proposal period opens on Monday, March 1, 2021

All full members of ETS, and all student members enrolled in research doctoral programs, are invited to submit paper proposals on this year’s theme, "Wealth and Poverty". To go to the Call for Papers click here.

Please click here for the section open session themes.

After 22 years as editor of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Andreas Köstenberger is stepping away from the job. During his tenure, Andreas oversaw an expansion of the peer review process, the addition of abstracts and key words to the beginning of articles, an increase in the number of book reviews and the size of the journal, and much more. We are grateful to Andreas for his faithful service over the years with his many significant contributions to the society and the journal, seen and unseen, in addition to his own writing and teaching.

We are pleased to welcome Dorian Coover-Cox as the new JETS editor and look forward to her leadership in this vital position. Dorian is Professor of Old Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary and has served there as an assistant and an associate editor for Bibliotheca Sacra. Future manuscript submissions and communications for JETS can be sent to Dorian at editor@etsjets.org.

Posted January 4, 2021

The ETS Annual Meeting will open for attendees to view the pre-recorded videos on Monday, November 9th. Please take a few minutes to watch our demo video to familiarize yourself with the virtual platform and all that it has to offer. Click here to watch the video.

ETS is looking for moderators for the Theme and Discipline specific sessions.
The Sessions that need moderators say, "Moderator Needed" in red. Moderators for the virtual meeting will be the ZOOM host for the meeting.

Your duties will include:

• Once the meeting is set up through ETS, it will be turned over to you to host.
• Receive and relay the questions that come in from the attendees.
• Make sure each presenter has an opportunity to summarize and take questions on his/her paper

We are pleased to announce that we are able to reduce the price for registering for the 2020 annual meeting. The price from now through the annual meeting will be reduced to the early registration price. To view registration prices and to register, click Annual Meeting Registration.

For those who have registered since June 1, under the Advanced Registration prices, we will be issuing refunds for the difference in cost. If you paid with a credit card, the difference will be refunded on your card. If you paid by check, you will receive the refund by check in the mail. The refund may take 2-3 weeks to process.

We hope that this will make it easier to attend the annual meeting and take advantage of all it has to offer, including sessions, publisher’s exhibits, book discounts, and more.

Q: Why is this year’s meeting virtual?

A: A virtual meeting was necessary this year due to the COVID crisis. To date Rhode Island is restricting public gatherings to 125 people, with social distancing, and has not announced an estimated end date for these restrictions. Additionally, the primary hotels are not taking reservations due to the impact of COVID on their operations, and the convention center is operating as a field hospital and is not slated to be returned to normal operations until sometime in 2021. The bottom line is that our contracted space will not be available for the meeting.

Q: If the meeting is virtual, why is there a registration fee?

A. Although some costs will be reduced for the 2020 Annual Meeting there are still significant and new expenses to provide a professional meeting that includes a virtual exhibit hall, networking opportunities, along with synchronous and asynchronous program elements. Additionally it is important to keep in mind that income from the annual meeting does more than just pay for the meeting. It also appropriately contributes to the overall Society budget. We do anticipate that the savings in travel, lodging, and other expenses will yield a significant net savings for attendees and will allow many who might not ordinarily be able to travel to the meeting to attend. Additionally the advance registration rate will be kept in place for the remainder of the registration period.

Please check back. As details for the 2020 meeting are finalized additional information will be posted here.

Updated July 24, 2020

We have finished sending all of the paper and session proposal notifications. If you did not receive an email about your paper proposal please check the status of your proposal by clicking the View My Proposal(s) link in the Annual Meeting Proposal System menu.

If you did not receive notification regarding your proposed session please email Bonnie Thigpen at meeting@etsjets.org.

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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3rd World Congress on Logic and Religion – WoCoLoR 2020
Banaras Hindu University (Varanasi, India)
November 8-12, 2020

- Extended Deadline: May 31
- Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wocolor2020
- Website: https://www.logicandreligion.com/3rd-world-congress
- Notification of acceptance: June 12

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NOTE ON THE COVID-19 CRISIS
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The proposal period is now closed. Below is key information regarding the notification timeline.

Verifying Your Submission Was Received
To view your proposal(s), please use the View My Paper Proposal(s) link in the Annual Meeting Proposal System box on the left side of the homepage. (You must be logged in to view your proposals.)

Checking the Status of Your Submission

Dear Members of the Evangelical Theological Society:

Greetings in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ! I trust you are well. I am writing to let you know that the Executive Committee of ETS has asked me to serve as chair of the search process that will seek, with God’s help and guidance, to find the right person to follow Mike Thigpen in the role of ETS Executive Director.

I think we all agree that Mike has provided excellent leadership for ETS in recent years. We will certainly miss Mike’s capable oversight for the work of ETS, but we are excited for him as he prepares to begin his new role as Provost at Phoenix Seminary early this coming summer.

Those who will serve with me on the search committee include:

• Gregg Allison, Professor of Theology and Historical Theology at Southern Seminary in Louisville, KY. Gregg serves as Secretary of ETS.
• Don Carson, Distinguished Emeritus Professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and Theologian-at-Large for The Gospel Coalition. Don serves as Vice President of ETS.

• Dan Estes, Distinguished Professor of Old Testament, Cedarville University.
• Mike Kruger, President of Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, NC. Mike recently completed his term as President of ETS.
• Stefana Dan Laing, Assistant Professor of Divinity and Theological Librarian at Beeson Divinity School.
• Eric Moore, Associate Professor of Applied Theology at Moody.

All of these people have been quite active in the life and work of ETS through the years.

We want to invite full members interested in serving in the role of Executive Director to submit a CV and cover letter. These materials should be submitted through the ETS website at: https://www.etsjets.org/EXD_CVs (Please note you must be a current full member and be logged in to the site to access the form.) We would also invite you to encourage full members you know that might be interested in serving in this role to consider submitting their materials. CVs and cover letters will be received until the end of the day on March 16, 2020 (approximately one month). We hope to have the new Executive Director in place by July 1, 2020 if at all possible. A job description for the position can be found here: https://www.etsjets.org/files/Opportunities/EXD_Job_Description.pdf

Let me thank you in advance for your faithful prayers for this process as well as your prayers for the Evangelical Theological Society.

Faithfully,

David S. Dockery
President, International Alliance for Christian Education
Distinguished Professor of Theology, Southwestern Seminary

At the Annual Meeting in San Diego last month, the Society voted to increase membership dues. It had been 20 years since the last increase. Over the course of the last two decades, the cost of membership related services (journal production, website maintenance, staff, etc.) has increased dramatically. The increases will enable the Society to continue its operations on a solid fiscal footing each year.

The new rates are

• $50 full members
• $45 associate members
• $30 retired members (full or associate)
• $30 student members

The new rates were effective December 1, 2019.

The Society of Christian Philosophers invites applications for its Graduate Student Cross-Training Fellowship Program, with fellowships to begin fall 2020. The GSCT Fellowship program is intended to equip graduate student members of the Society of Christian Philosophers, the American Catholic Philosophical Association, the Evangelical Philosophical Society, or the Evangelical Theological Society with an opportunity to take up to one academic year to develop competency in an empirical science connected with their research. Up to five fellowships will be awarded.

Two related Calls for Papers of interest:

(1) Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies XXXII 2020 on: “The Digital Challenge: How to Humanize Technology.” On JIS web: https://www.jis3.org/callforpapers . Mss. deadline: January 15, 2020.

(2) ICSA IX. World Congress on: “Social Media & Intimacy: An Alternative Reality?,” Hilton Pasadena, California, USA, 30 July - 1 August 2020. On JIS web: https://www.jis3.org/icsaix2020. Deadline for 250-word Abstracts: January 30, 2020.

Click here to view the 71st Annual Meeting Schedule Draft.

Please email all edit requests to meeting@etsjets.org by July 1st.

If you would like to moderate one of the Theme or Discipline Specific sessions please complete this webform.

Beginning to tackle the resource imbalance in global theological education, Theologians Without Borders now has a comprehensive interactive online website to make help meet opportunity. What’s new? Right from the website, Western scholars can now enquire about being a field partner with Theologians Without Borders; Theological educational institutions can now upload teaching-visit opportunities to Theologians Without Borders. Check out: www.theologianswithoutborders.org.

Beginning to tackle the resource imbalance in global theological education, Theologians Without Borders has now opened its doors. What’s the idea? The West has material resources and many more PhDs. But it is the Majority World (MW) church that is growing in leaps and bounds. Many Western (W) scholar-teachers want to help and are willing to visit to teach in the MW. When these visits work well, they are amazingly productive for both the visitor and the students, helping grow more strategic leaders right where they are needed most.

The March issue of JETS is now available online. Click here to check it out. Members and subscribers will receive their paper copy in late March/early April.

Thanks,
ETS Staff

The Near East Archaeological Society Bulletin seeks articles and book reviews for publication. The NEASB is a peer-reviewed journal published annually by the Near East Archaeological Society. Articles and book reviews pertain to biblical archaeology or Bible backgrounds. Inquiries and manuscripts should be sent to the editor (mhassler@vbts.edu).

We now have a web version of the ETS Annual Meeting Program App.

Use this link to access the program app using your computer, tablet, or smartphone:

Web version of the program app

There are still Annual Meeting sessions that need moderators. Please click here to see the list of sessions that need moderators. If you would like to moderate one of these sessions please complete this form.

The Luther Rice Journal of Christian Studies, the academic publication of Luther Rice College & Seminary, exists to edify Christian leaders through scholarly articles and practical essays relevant to Christian life and ministry. The editorial board seeks submissions addressing various theological and practical topics in harmony with historic evangelical orthodoxy. For submission guidelines and inquiries, contact the editor at Journal@LutherRice.edu.

William Wilson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of New Testament and Greek
770.484.1204 x 5612
www.LutherRice.edu

Presbyterion, the academic journal of Covenant Theological Seminary, is expanding in size and frequency of publication. It seeks submissions of articles in the fields of biblical studies, theology, church history, and practical theology. Preference will be given to articles that 1) are about 3,000-6,000 words in length, and 2) exhibit excellence in scholarship from a Christian perspective. Relevance to pastoral practitioners is also a plus. For initial review please send a Word file or pdf to the editor at bob.yarbrough@covenantseminary.edu.

The Journal of Biblical and Theological Studies (JBTS) is a new open-source online journal in the field of biblical and theological studies (viewable at jbtsonline.org). The journal will also be available in print through Wipf & Stock.

Written from an inter-denominational evangelical point of view, the journal is reviewed by an editorial board of faculty that represent several academic institutions throughout the world.

If you would like to moderate a Discipline Specific or Theme session please complete this Online Form. These sessions are marked in the Draft with a D (Discipline) or T (Theme).

The deadline to volunteer to moderate a session is July 31st.

There is an opportunity to teach at the Zaporozhye Bible College and Seminary in Ukraine in their MA program.

ZBCS is a missionary endeavor. It is a nonprofit organization. All visiting professors are in effect short term missionaries. You would need to raise your own airfare and bring 250 Euro (or equivalent) for food and transport.

The first issue of a new peer-reviewed journal titled Journal for the Evangelical Study of the Old Testament is now available at www.jesot.org. The issue includes 5 new articles and 15 book reviews that can be freely downloaded online and can be purchased in print through Wipf and Stock Publishers. The journal features articles by Michael S. Heiser, Eugene H. Merrill, Joel E. Anderson, Todd Scacewater, and John F. Hobbins.