Pruet School of Christian Studies professors publish works
October 01, 2008 - Dillon McClain
Three professors in Ouachita Baptist University’s Chesley and Elizabeth Pruet School
of Christian Studies (PSCS) will be published for their academic research and specialties.
Dr. Joey Dodson’s dissertation for the University of Aberdeen, “The ‘Powers’ of Personification:
Rhetorical Purpose in the Book of Wisdom and the Letter to the Romans,” has been accepted
for publication by Walter de Gruyter publishers (Berlin) in the BZNW (“Periodical
for New Testament Science”). This publication will be released in December of this
year. Dodson, assistant professor of Biblical studies, said, “I was honored since
this is one of those series that Biblical studies nerds like me fantasize about.”
Dodson also presented two of his papers in Durham, England, at the British New Testament
Society (BNTS) earlier this month.
“After my Ph.D. oral examination, one of my examiners asked that I present at the
BNTS conference,” Dodson explained.
He was invited to present his paper “Cosmology and the Personification of Creation
in Wisdom and Romans,” which discusses his research on cosmology in Second Temple
Judaism comparing Paul’s view of creation with works from the “Old Testament Prophets,
Philo, Plato, and the Roman Imperial Cult.” BNTS officials also scheduled Dodson
to present an additional paper of his titled “Personification Citations.” This paper
was an offshoot of his dissertation and “discussed the reasons why Paul uses personifications
such as Righteousness by faith and the Law, to quote the Old Testament.”
“All in all, the time was both challenging and encouraging,” Dodson said. “But most
of all, it was just exhausting.”
Dr. William Viser, associate professor of Christian ministries, wrote “Preaching on
Sexual Ethics: a Five-Sermon Series” to be published in “The Minister’s Manual 2009.”
Viser was invited to write five sermons on sexual ethics by Dr. Lee McGlone, pastor
of First Baptist Church of Arkadelphia, and an OBU adjunct professor.
Viser said he chose five subjects from which he has counseling experience and which
he feels aren’t “addressed in the pulpit, though many church members deal with them.”
He noted that he is “excited about the series, as I feel it will meet needs that are
in the congregation.”
Dr. Terry Carter, associate dean of the PSCS and W.O. Vaught Professor of Christian
Ministries, has contributed an article titled “Baptists and Racism and the Turn Toward
Segregation: 1845” to “Turning Points in Baptist History.” This book will honor the
Baptist historian Harry Leon McBeth, under whom Carter previously studied.
by Dillon McClain
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