2010 Awards of Excellence Announced by The Foundation for Pentecostal Scholarship
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., March 11 /
Christian Newswire/ --The Foundation for Pentecostal Scholarship (TFFPS) conferred its 2010 Awards of Excellence for Pentecostal scholarship. Dr. Janet Everts announced the awards during the 2010 Conference of the Society for Pentecostal Studies at North Central University.
This year's book award went to William P. Atkinson for his book The 'Spiritual Death' of Jesus: A Pentecostal Investigation, published by Brill. Atkinson's work is the first volume in Brill's Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies series and is a slightly edited version of his doctoral dissertation completed at the University of Edinburgh. Atkinson's master's thesis examining Pentecostal responses to James D. G. Dunn's book on the baptism in the Holy Spirit was published serially in the Journal of Pentecostal Theology and is being updated and expanded for future publication. Atkinson is an Associate Research Fellow at the London School of Theology and a member of The Foundation for Pentecostal Scholarship's Board of Advisers.
Other titles nominated for the award were Lee Roy Martin's The Unheard Voice of God (DEO Publishing, Dorset, UK), Graham Twelftree's People of the Spirit (SPCK and Baker Academic), and Keith Warrington's Pentecostal Theology: A Theology of Encounter (T & T Clark, London).
Two Awards of Excellence for short works were conferred this year to the following scholars: David M. Allen for "'The Forgotten Spirit': A Pentecostal Reading of the Letter to the Hebrews?" which appeared in the Journal of Pentecostal Theology (Chris Thomas, editor; Brill) and Kenneth Bass for "The Narrative and Rhetorical Use of Divine Necessity in Luke-Acts," which appeared in the Journal of Biblical and Pneumatological Research (Paul Elbert, editor; Wipf & Stock Publishers).
TFFPS was formed in 2005 with the goal of advancing post-graduate biblical scholarship by sponsoring research projects within the global Pentecostal-Charismatic family. One of its most ambitious projects to date is the English translation of Gonzalo Haya-Prats' dissertation performed at the Gregorian University of Rome in 1967. Its French translation has become a classic in its field. Haya-Prats examines the role of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer and the church as depicted by Luke in Acts; its publication date is late 2010 or 2011. TFFPS is a tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation. More information about the Foundation is available at www.tffps.org.
