Foundation for Pentecostal Scholarship’s 2016 Book Award of Excellence Announced
The Foundation for Pentecostal Scholarship (TFFPS) has conferred its 2016 awards for excellence in Pentecostal scholarship. The awards were announced at the 2016 Conference of the Society for Pentecostal Studies convening at Life Pacific College, March 10–12. One book award and three article awards were conferred.
This year’s Book Award of Excellence went to Craig S. Keener for his 4-volume set Acts: An Exegetical Commentary, published by Baker Academic-Baker Publishing Group (Grand Rapids, MI, 2012–15). Keener (PhD, Duke University) is F. M. and Ada Thompson Professor of Biblical Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary. He is the author of 17 books, including The IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament, commentaries on Matthew, John, Romans, First and Second Corinthians, and Revelation; his two-volume work Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts won the Foundation’s 2012 Book Award of Excellence.
Three Awards of Excellence for short works were conferred this year to the following scholars: Jeffrey S. Lamp for his essay “Realized Eschatology or Eschatology in the Process of Realization? A Pentecostal Engagement with N.T. Wright’s View of the Present Mission of the Church in the World” (in Pentecostal Theology and the Theological Vision of N.T. Wright: A Conversation, CPT Press), Michael McClymond for “‘I Will Pour Out of My Spirit Upon All Flesh’: An Historical and Theological Meditation on Pentecostal Origins” (Pneuma), and Glen W. Menzies for “Assessing N.T. Wright’s Reading of Paul through the Lens of Dispensationalism” (in Pentecostal Theology and the Theological Vision of N.T. Wright: A Conversation).
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.
(Source: Christian Newswire)
