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).
2006 Awards of Excellence Conferred
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TFFPS conferred Awards of Excellence
to four Pentecostal scholars . . .
Full Gospel, Fractured
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Call to Use God’s Gift of the Intellect
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TFFPS’s First Grant Conferred
Lukan scholar presenting paper at SPS conference is the recipient of the Foundation’s first grant. <more>
WALKING AZUSA STREET
Scott Johnson, Secretary of TFFPS, filed this report
about
the historic
centennial celebration of the Pentecostal revival that started on Azusa Street <more>
Haya-Prats Translation Underway
TFFPS has inked contracts with Gonzalo Haya-Prats, ThD, and Scott A. Ellington, PhD, for the translation of Haya Prats’ classic work on the Holy Spirit in Acts. <more>
Top Pentecostal Books
The president of TFFPS shares his picks for the top ten books substantiating the baptism in the Holy Spirit and the continuation of the gifts of the Spirit. <more>
