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The Foundation for Pentecostal
Scholarship ( TFFPS) has conferred its 2007 Awards of Excellence for
Pentecostal
 scholarship. TFFPS
  president, Robert W. Graves,
announced the awards during the Conference of the Society for
Pentecostal Studies at Lee University. Two book awards and one article
award were given. This year’s book award voting resulted in a tie
between Pentecostal Healing: Models in Theology and Practice by
Kimberly Ervin Alexander, an Assistant Professor of Historical Theology
at the Church of God Theological Seminary, and Spirit and Kingdom in the Writings of Luke and Paul:
An Attempt to Reconcile These Concepts, by Youngmo Cho, an Assemblies of God missionary and assistant
professor of New Testament studies at Asia LIFE University (Seoul,
Korea).
 The
short work award went to Paul Elbert, adjunct
Professor of
Theology and Science at the Church of God Theological Seminary
and of New Testament
Theology at Lee
University for "Possible
Literary Links Between Luke-Acts and Pauline Letters Regarding
Spirit-Language."
Alexander’s Pentecostal Healing (Deo Publishing) is believed by many to be the most comprehensive study of the
19th-century healing movement and divine healing as a central
belief in the early Pentecostal movement. Cho’s Spirit and Kingdom
(Paternoster)
interacts
effectively with works by New Testament scholars James Dunn and Max
Turner, exposing the weaknesses in their exegeses and conclusions.
 Elbert’s
essay, published
in The Intertextuality of the
Epistles: Explorations of Theory and Practice, eds. Thomas L. Brodie,
Dennis R. MacDonald, and Stanley E. Porter (New Testament Monographs 16;
Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2006), postulates that Luke’s
writing of his double work follows the expected Greco-Roman
narrative-rhetorical tradition of the day with respect to earlier
revered literature, like the Pauline letters. Accordingly, he seeks
“to initiate and stimulate a fresh reading of Paul and extend Paul’s
proper influence” by persuasively
clarifying Paul’s Spirit language through vivid and plausible
examples of receiving the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Other nominated books were Kenneth J. Archer’s A Pentecostal
Hermeneutic for the Twenty-First Century: Spirit, Scripture and
Community (T&T Clark), and Frank D. Macchia’s Baptized in
the Spirit: A Global Pentecostal Theology (Zondervan).
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(Los Angeles, CA 2006) TFFPS
conferred its first annual “Awards of Excellence” for Pentecostal
scholarship. TFFPS co-founder and president, Robert W. Graves,
announced the awards at the business meeting of the 2006 Conference
of the Society for Pentecostal Studies convening at Fuller
Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California. One book award and three
article awards were given.
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Rick
Nañez,
an Assemblies of God missionary in Quito, Ecuador, received the 2006
book award for the Zondervan-published Full Gospel, Fractured
Minds?: A Call to Use God’s Gift of the Intellect. The award
included a $500 honorarium.
Receiving the 2006 article awards were: |
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Blaine
Charette, Professor of New Testament and Chair of the Department
of Biblical and Theological Studies at Northwest University,
Kirkland, Washington, for "'Tongues as of Fire': Judgement as a
Function of Glossolalia in Luke's Thought," published in the Journal
of Pentecostal Theology. |
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Paul Elbert, adjunct Professor of Theology and Science at the
Church of God Theological Seminary and of New Testament Theology at
Lee University, Cleveland, Tennessee, for "Acts of the Holy Spirit:
Hermeneutical and Historiographical Reflections," published in the
Norwegian journal Refleks: med
karismatisk kristendom i fokus. |
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John Christopher Thomas, Professor of Biblical Studies at
the Church of God Theological Seminary, Cleveland, Tennessee, for
“Healing in the Atonement: A Johannine Perspective,” published in
the Journal of Pentecostal Theology.
Each award included a $100 honorarium. |
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