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The Foundation for Pentecostal Scholarship
March 25, 2025
CANTON, Ga., March 25, 2025 /Standard Newswire/ — The Foundation for Pentecostal Scholarship has conferred its 2025 awards for excellence in Pentecostal scholarship. The awards were announced at the 2025 Conference of the Society for Pentecostal Studies hosted by Northwest University, Kirkland, Washington. One book award and three article awards were conferred.
This year’s Book Award of Excellence went to Rebecca G. S. Idestrom for her Show Me Your Glory: The Glory of God in the Old Testament (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications-Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2023). Idestrom is Professor of Old Testament at Tyndale University, Toronto. She is the author of two commentaries, “Habakkuk” and “Zephaniah” in The Book of Twelve, edited by John Christopher Thomas, and From Biblical Theology to Biblical Criticism: Old Testament Scholarship at Uppsala University, 1866–1922.
Other books considered for this year’s award were as follows: 40 Questions about Pentecostalism (Jonathan Black) – Kregel Academic; AoG Leadership and Culture (William D. Foster) – Brill; Hearing God’s Voice (Tania M. Harris) – Brill; Ritual and Religious Experience in Early Christianities (David J. McCollough) – Mohr Siebeck; Pentecostal Imagination (Paul S. Baker) – Pickwick Publications-Wipf and Stock Publishers; Pentecostal Prophets (Stephen D. Barkley) – Wipf and Stock Publishers; The Fire and the Cloud (Chris Green) – Baylor UP; God Gave Rock and Roll to You: A History of Contemporary Christian Music (Leah Payne) – Oxford UP; Contesting Languages: Heteroglossia and the Politics of Language in the Early Church (Ekaputra Tupamahu) – Oxford UP; Aspects of Assemblies of God Origins: Exploring Narratives, Theologies, and Issues from the Early Years (Daniel D. Isgrigg) – Pickwick Publications-Wipf and Stock Publishers.
Three Awards of Excellence for short works were conferred this year to the following scholars: Dale M. Coulter (Pentecostal Theological Seminary, Cleveland, Tennessee), “Holiness in Pentecostal Discourse: Becoming Like God,” Journal of Pentecostal Theology 33. 2 (2024): 178–200; Andreas-Christian Heidel (Internationale Hochschule Liebenzell, Bad Liebenzell, Germany), “Pneumatological Self-Confidence, Scriptural Interpretation, and the Making of Scripture in the Letter to the Hebrews,” Journal of Pentecostal Theology 33.1 (2024): 1–17; Nel Marius (North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa), “Pentecostalism and Premillennial Dispensationalism: An Unhappy Marriage,” Journal of Pentecostal Theology 33.1 (2024): 333–56.
The Foundation for Pentecostal Scholarship (Canton, Georgia, USA) was formed in 2005 with the singular goal of advancing biblical scholarship within the global Pentecostal family. More information about the Foundation and its work and goals is available at www.tffps.org.
SOURCE The Foundation for Pentecostal Scholarship
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