Hebrews at the Evangelical Theological Society 2025 Meeting

Evangelical Theological Society

November 18–20, 2025

Boston, MA

 

Tuesday

 

9:00 AM - 12:10 PM

General Epistles

 

9:50 AM - 10:30 AM
Herb Bateman
(Independent Scholar)
Is a Systematic Theological Understanding about the Holy Spirit imposed on Hebrews?

10:40 AM - 11:20 AM
Adam Harwood
(New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary)
The Relation of the Unpardonable Sin of the Gospels and Hebrews 6

9:00 AM - 12:10 PM

Church History

 

10:40 AM - 11:20 AM
Arthur Rankin
(New College, Edinburgh)
Christ the Fulfiller of the Covenant: Christology and Covenant in Calvin’s Hebrews Commentary

9:00 AM - 12:10 PM

Practical Theology

 

11:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Rebecca Muir
(Ridley College)
The Christian Community as a Resource for Suffering Christians in Hebrews

 

1:30 PM - 4:40 PM

Spiritual Formation/Sanctification

 

1:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Christy Gonet
(California Baptist University)
Holding Fast and Drawing Near: Sancti!cation in Hebrews

 

1:30 PM - 4:40 PM

Scriptural Use of Scripture

 

3:10 PM - 3:50 PM
George H. Guthrie
(Regent College)
Has Our ‘Reading Backwards’ Approach to Hebrews Been Framed?

1:30 PM - 4:40 PM

New Testament

Studies in Hebrews

Moderator: Charles Savelle
(Dallas Theological Seminary)

1:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Andrew Jennings
(Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary)
Athens Meets Jerusalem: Melchizedek and a Biblical Model for Philosophical Theology
 

2:20 PM - 3:00 PM
Jihyung Kim
(McMaster Divinity College)
Why the Tabernacle, Not the Temple? Hebrews’ Strategic Use of Wilderness Memory
 

3:10 PM - 3:50 PM
Michael Cha
(Dallas Theological Seminary)
Hebrews 7-10 and Ezekiel’s Temple: An Originalist Exposition
 

4:00 PM - 4:40 PM
James N. Beevers
(Westminster Theological Seminary)
The Root of Apostasy: Hebrews 12 and the Reception of Deuteronomy 29:18–19

Wednesday

8:30 AM - 11:40 AM

African Biblical Studies

Reading Hebrews and 1 Peter from Majority World Perspectives

 

Moderator: Elizabeth Mburu
(Africa International University; Langham Publishing)
8:30 AM - 8:50 AM
Craig Keener
(Asbury Theological Seminary)
8:50 AM - 9:10 AM
Craig Blomberg
(Denver Seminary)
9:10 AM - 9:30 AM
Ahreum Kim
(University of Cambridge)
9:40 AM - 10:00 AM
Vuyani Sindo
(George White!eld College, Cape Town, South Africa)
10:00 AM - 10:20 AM
Miguel Echevarría
(Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary)
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Sofanit T. Abebe
(Trinity College Bristol, UK)
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM
Abeneazer G. Urga
(Evangelical Theological College; Ethiopian Graduate School
of Theology)
11:00 AM - 11:40 AM
Panel Discussion and Q&A

3:00 PM - 6:10 PM

New Testament Greek Language and Exegesis

 

3:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Adam Wiggins
(Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary)
God, Christ, and the Many Sons: A Linguistic Analysis of Sonship in Hebrews 2 and 12

Thursday

1:00 PM - 4:10 PM

A Response to Reading the General Epistles Missiologically

 

1:00 PM - 1:40 PM
Amy Peeler
(Wheaton College)
A Response to Reading Hebrews Missiologically