This year’s Book Award of Excellence went to Robert P. Menzies for his book Pentecost: This Story Is Our Story, published by Gospel Publishing House (Springfield, Mo., 2013). Menzies (PhD, University of Aberdeen, Scotland) is the director of Synergy, a rural development organization based in Kunming, China. He also serves as adjunct faculty at the Asia Pacific Theological Seminary in the Philippines and has taught widely in the Asia-Pacific region as well as in the United States and Europe. His other books include Empowered for Witness: The Spirit in Luke-Acts; Spirit and Power: Foundations of Pentecostal Experience; and The Language of the Spirit: Interpreting and Translating Charismatic Terms.
Two Awards of Excellence for short works were conferred this year to the following scholars: Paul Elbert for his essay “Acts 2:38 in Light of the Syntax of Imperative-Future Passive and Imperative-Present Participle Combinations” (Catholic Biblical Quarterly), and Randy J. Hedlun for “Rethinking Luke’s Purpose: The Effect of First-Century Social Conflict” (Journal of Pentecostal Theology).
Other books nominated for the 2014 Award of Excellence were William Atkinson’s Trinity After Pentecost (Wipf & Stock), Aaron Frieson’s Normaling the Abnormal (Wipf & Stock), Jon Ruthven’s What’s Wrong With Protestant Theology? (Word & Spirit Press), Wolfgang Vondey’s Pentecostalism: A Guide for the Perplexed (Brill)¸ and Joshua Zieffle’s David du Plessis and the Assemblies of God (Brill).
Essays by the following authors were also nominated for the Award of Excellence: Scott A. Ellington, Lee Roy Martin, Angel D. Santiago-Vendrell, and Donatus Pius Ukpong.
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.
(Source: Christian Newswire)