Lyceum Disputation Symposiums

Essays in the Lyceum Disputation series range from traditional academic symposium essays to mid-range theses on various theological, historical, and philosophical topics intended to provide greater understanding in a spirit that reflects charity, curiosity, critical thinking, and cheerful confessionalism. The symposiums of traditional academic focus will be published as special issues of Theologia Viatorum.

Current Symposiums​

Metaphysics & The Christian

  1. Ground Rules for Christian Metaphysics, James S. Spiegel
  2. Do Christians Need Metaphysics?, Michael Gorman
  3. Metpahysics and Delight, Sam Welbaum
  4. Is there a Metaphysics of Christianity?, Chad McIntosh
  5. On the Use of Christian Metaphysics, Leonard Sidharta
  6. Additional forthcoming from Eric Yang and Joshua Swijade

Forthcoming Symposiums

Baptists and Ecumenism

Featuring Contributions from:

  1. Rhyne Putman (Williams Baptist University)
  2. Daniel Houck (Calvary Hill Baptist Church)
  3. Ben Stratton (Farmington Baptist Church)
  4. David Doran (Detroit Theological Seminary)

Spirituality and the Intellectual Life

Featuring Contributions from:

  1. Tim Pickavance (Biola University)
  2. Travis Dickinson (Dallas Baptist University)
  3. Stephen Presley (Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy)
  4. Michael McClymond (St.Louis University)

The Reformation as Renewal

Featuring Contributions from:

  1. Richard Cross (The University of Notre Dame)
  2. Tom Ward (Baylor University)
  3. Mickey Mattox (Hillsdale College)
  4. Peter Optiz (University of Zurich)
  5. Jordan Ballor (The Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy)
  6. Michael Lynch (The Davenant Institute)
  7. Daniel Houck (Calvary Hill Baptist Church; Leland Seminary)

Previous Symposiums​

Historical Methodology & Activism

  1. When Activists Do History, Alex DiPrima
  2. A Christian Case for Activist History, Daniel K. Williams
  3. Evangelical History Overturned, D. G. Hart
  4. Using the Past: A Review of the Symposium on Historical Methodology and Activism, Garrett Walden

Theonomy

Christian Platonism

  • On Classical Christian Platonism: A Philosopher’s Reply to Carter, Paul Gould
  • Christian Platonism: Some Comments on Its Past and the Need for Its Future, Willemien Otten
  • Craig Carter’s Christian Platonism, R.T. Mullins
  • Is Arius a Christian Platonist?, Grant Sutherland
  • Plato is not the Point: A Critical Defense of Craig Carter’s Proposal, Hunter Hindsman
  • Which Plato? Whose Platonism? Summarizing the Christian Platonism Symposium, Jordan Steffaniak

    • The Necessity(?) of Penal Substitutionary Atonement

  • How (not) to Affirm the Necessity of Penal Substitutionary Atonement: A Response to the 2017 SBC Resolution, Josh McNall
  • Centering the Atonement: Balancing the Substitutionary Work of Christ, Adam Johnson
  • Why Denying Penal Substitution Need Not Impugn God’s Perfect Justice, Jonathan C. Rutledge
  • An Analysis of the 2017 SBC Resolution on Penal Substitutionary Atonement, Carl Mosser
  • An Early Medieval Pastor-Poet’s Thoughts on the Cross, Ben Wheaton
  • Substitution, Justice, and Love: Reflections on Penal Substitutionary Atonement, Joshua Thurow
  • Heading Backwards: Toward a Trinitarian Doctrine of Penal Substitutionary Atonement, Jacob Denhollander

    • Baptists, Religious Liberty, & the State

  • No More Nursing Fathers: A Baptist Theological Rational for Religious Liberty, Matt Thomas

  • A Conscience Rightly Informed: Establishment, Disestablishment, and the Debate Over Human Conscience, Cory Higdon

  • Is There a Baptist Contribution to Political Theology?, Matt Emerson

  • The (Past, Present, and Future) Law of Religious Liberty, Matt Martens