Contact: Robert Graves, The Foundation for Pentecostal Scholarship, 770-516-7300

SEATTLE, Wash., March 29, 2013 /Christian Newswire/ -- The Foundation for Pentecostal Scholarship (TFFPS) has conferred its 2013 awards for excellence in Pentecostal scholarship. TFFPS president, Robert Graves, announced the awards during the 2013 Conference of the Society for Pentecostal Studies convening at Seattle Pacific University, March 21–23. Two book awards and three article awards were conferred.

This year's Book Award of Excellence went to Roger Stronstad for his book The Charismatic Theology of St. Luke: Trajectories from the Old Testament to Luke-Acts (2nd edition) published by Baker Academic Press (Grand Rapids, Mich., 2012). Dr. Stronstad is director and associate professor in Bible and theology at Summit Pacific College (formerly Western Pentecostal Bible College), where he has served for over thirty years. His other books include Spirit, Scripture and Theology: A Pentecostal Perspective, The Prophethood of All Believers, and Baptized and Filled with the Holy Spirit. He has also served as a co-editor and contributor on several multi-authored projects, including the Life in the Spirit Study Bible and the Life in the Spirit Commentary on the New Testament.

Three Awards of Excellence for short works were conferred this year to the following scholars: Rickie D. Moore for his essay "A Pentecostal Approach to Teaching Old Testament" (in The Spirit of the Old Testament, Deo Publishing, 2011); Robert P. Menzies for "The Persecuted Prophets: A Mirror Image of Luke's Spirit-Inspired Church" (in The Spirit and the Christ in the New Testament and Christian Theology (Wm. P. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2012); and John Christopher Thomas for "New Jerusalem and the Conversion of the Nations: An Exercise in Pneumatic Discernment (Rev. 21:1–22:5)" also in The Spirit and the Christ. Thomas's The Apocalypse: A Literary and Theological Commentary (CPT Press, 2012) also won the Foundation's Award of Merit.

TFFPS was formed in 2005 with the goal of advancing doctoral and post-doctoral biblical scholarship by sponsoring research and publishing projects within the global Pentecostal-Charismatic family. TFFPS is a tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation. More information about the Foundation and its projects is available at its Web site: www.tffps.org.