Evangelical Theological Society

[larryjf]

Any thoughts on the Evangelical Theological Society?
http://www.etsjets.org/

 

[turmeric]

Looks like everybody from John Walvoord to Simon Kistemacker has been involved. Other names I recognize; H. Wayne House, Wayne Grudem, Gordon Clark, Gleason Archer, Norman Geissler...Hmmm!

 

[R. Scott Clark]

Originally posted by turmeric
Looks like everybody from John Walvoord to Simon Kistemacker has been involved. Other names I recognize; H. Wayne House, Wayne Grudem, Gordon Clark, Gleason Archer, Norman Geissler...Hmmm!

It's just an academic society where evangelicals (those who love Jesus, who affirm inerrancy and the Trinity) can gather to read papers to one another.

Some (perhaps many?) evangelicals use it as a sort of super synod, because they don't have one and a theological clearing house of sorts, but it's not ecclesiastical or confessional at all. It's an academic society. Full stop.

It's membership is quite diverse, from including open and classical theists, those who hold imputation and those who deny it, dispensationalists, Reformed (some of whom chafe under the label "evangelical"), fundamentalists, progressives and even some Lutheran folk.

I read a paper at the meeting in Phila in Nov and have attended a few times over the years.

rsc