Global Evangelicalism

TWELFTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE EVANGELICAL THEOLOGICAL SOCIETY ONTARIO & QUEBEC REGION
About this event

Global Evangelicalism

Location: Wycliffe College

Programme

9:00 Registration (Waged: $25.00; Students: $10.00)

9:20 Welcome (Great Hall)

9:30 Plenary Address (Great Hall)

Baiyu Andrew Song (Andrew Fuller Centre for Baptist Studies)
“Can a [Chinese] Become a Christian?: World Christianity and Evangelicalism”

10:30 Coffee/Tea Break

10:45–12:15 Parallel Sessions

Session I: Global Evangelicalism
(Great Hall; Chair: Baiyu Andrew Song)

10:45 James Mwendia (McMaster Divinity College), “From Indulgences to Prosperity Gospel: A Historical Comparison of Distorted Grace”

11:15 Renwei Chi (Wycliffe College, University of Toronto), “Once Saved Always Saved: A Misunderstood Theological Discussion”

11:45 Shih-Hsien Chen (Wycliffe College, University of Toronto), “Church as Family: Evangelical Ecclesial Imagination in a Taiwanese Context”

Session II: Global Evangelicalism II
(West Lecture Room; Chair: Li-Wei Liu)

10:45 Andrew Wildsmith (Scott Christian University, Kenya), “Remythologizing the Bible: Genesis 1-11 as True Myth, A Test Case for a Globalizing Evangelical Theology”

11:15 Dike Odimuko (McMaster Divinity College), “Preserving Faith and Identity: Lessons from Persian Yehud for Today’s Church”

11:45 Solomon G. Ayecheluhim (McMaster Divinity College), “Linguistic Frameworks for Faith: Applying Systemic Functional Linguistics to Biblical Interpretation in Global Evangelicalism with 1 Timothy 1:1–20 as a Case Study”

Session III: Scripture
(East Lecture Room; Chair: TBD)

10:45 David Ross (Wycliffe College, University of Toronto), “Pregnant with Action: Re-examining the Nature of Faith in Paul (Gal. 2:19-20 and 5:6)”

11:15 Andrew Noble (University of Nottingham), “Choose Life, Not Idols: An Intertextual Analysis of Deuteronomy 4:28 and 30:15-20”

11:45 James Kraskevich (University of Toronto), “Focusing in Biblical Hebrew Sentences: The Universally Ignored Linguistic Universal”

12:15–2:00 Lunch

2:00–3:30 Parallel Sessions

Session IV: Theology
(Great Hall; Chair: TBD)

2:00 Li-Wei Liu (Wycliffe College, University of Toronto), “Which Missio Dei Are We Talking About? Karl Barth on the relationship between Missio Dei and the Holy Trinity”

2:30 Su-Yuan Yang (Wycliffe College, University of Toronto), “Analogy of Being by Augustine or Analogy of Faith by Karl Barth: A Reflection on Theological Appropriateness in a Taiwanese Context”

3:00 Alexander S. Lee (Fuller Theological Seminary), “‘Playing with Danger: The Rehabilitation of Spiritual Danger and the Liberation of Negative Reverence for Interreligious Ritual Participation – An Evangelical Perspective”

Session V: Anthropology
(West Lecture Room; Chair: TBD)

2:00 Shu-Hsiang Wu (Wycliffe College, University of Toronto), “The Theological Anthropology of Ancient Chinese Philosopher Mozi- A Case of the Prisca Theologia”

2:30 Andrew Fountain (Newlife Church, Toronto), “A Biblical Theology of Shame and its Relationship to Emotional Issues and Evangelism”

3:00 Jeemin Moon (Heritage College & Seminary), “A Case Study of a Wretched Man: A Brief Psychological and Theological Study of Paul’s Introspection in Romans 7”

Session VI: Historical Theology
(East Lecture Room; Chair: Christian Clement-Schlimm)

2:00 Jonathan N. Cleland (Knox College, University of Toronto), “Christ’s Single Death for Our Double Death: Peter Martyr Vermigli’s Implementation of an Augustinian Concept”

2:30 Brendan DePhillippeaux (McMaster Divinity College), “Augustine the Modernist?: The Question of Triune Mediation in Augustine’s Epistemology”

3:00 Yuta Seki (Maple Avenue Baptist Church), “Pastoral Usefulness: Retrieving Wisdom from the Letters of Benjamin Beddome”

3:30–4:00 Coffee/Tea Break

4:00–5:00 Panel Discussion & Closing Remarks (Location TBD)