Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary was honored to host the 2025 Northeast Region Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) on March 15. Co-sponsored with New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (NOBTS), the meeting was themed “Retrieving Athanasius for Evangelicals Today” and featured Dr. Brandon D. Smith, chair of the NOBTS Herschel H. Hobbs School of Theology & Ministry, as the plenary speaker. The seminary also celebrates Assistant Professor of Old Testament Dr. Quonekuia Day’s appointment as the ETS Northeast regional chair.

ETS is a “professional, academic society of biblical scholars, teachers, pastors, students, and others involved in evangelical scholarship. . .  [serving] Jesus Christ and his church by fostering conservative, evangelical biblical scholarship.” Gordon-Conwell shares this institutional commitment to thoughtful biblical scholarship with ETS, whose founding chair was Dr. Edward L. Dalglish of Gordon Divinity School.

The united Gordon-Conwell, formed through the merger of Gordon Divinity School and Conwell School of Theology in 1969, has upheld a high view of Scripture with thoughtful scholarship and a commitment to God’s mission for over half a century. The seminary’s mission statement includes the call to equip Christian leaders to “think theologically,” and one of the four tenants of the seminary’s strategic plan is “magnifying high academic standards to support new generations who are preparing to apply God’s unchanging Word to the complexities of our rapidly changing world.”

In addition to plenary sessions and a Q&A on “Ruled Readings and Trinitarian Exegesis” and “The Knowledge of God and Soteriology,” several parallel papers were presented by ETS members at the regional meeting. Gordon-Conwell gives thanks and glory to God for the scholarship of its faculty, alumni, and students who were among the presenters:

  • Dr. John (Jack) Jefferson Davis, Senior Professor of Systematic Theology and Christian Ethics: “Renovating Our Images of God: Neuroscience and Biblical Meditation.”
  • Antonio Arsenal (MACH ’12, MATH ’13): “Athanasian: Atonement Theory and Double Imputation”
  • Ross Macdonald (MDiv ’20, MACS ’21, ThM ’22): “Redemptive Dispersion: The Babel Narrative according to Second Temple Literature and Pentecost”
  • Abigail Duffield (MATS Student): “Disability and Divine Design: A Biblical Theology of Human Disability in Christian Scripture”
  • Kate DeVane Brown (MATS Student): “Images of Devotional Literacy in the Beaufort/Beauchamp Hours”

“Gordon-Conwell is pleased to partner with ETS to support ongoing thoughtful Christian scholarship with an uncompromising view of biblical inerrancy and Trinitarian theology,” says Gordon-Conwell President Dr. Scott Sunquist. Visit the ETS website to learn more about upcoming events and opportunities.