Northwest Professor Receives Award for Journal Article
Rick Nañez, an Assemblies of God missionary in Quito, Ecuador, received the 2006 book award for the Zondervan-published Full Gospel, Fractured Minds?: A Call to Use God’s Gift of the Intellect. Reverend Nañez examines biblical teachings directing Christians to use their God-given mental abilities and contrasts this with deep-rooted anti-intellectualism still found within some Pentecostal/Charismatic circles. The Foundation for Pentecostal Scholarship was formed in 2005 with the singular goal of advancing biblical scholarship within the global Pentecostal family. “In supporting the convergence of the flame of Spirit and the flame of knowledge,” commented Graves, “we hope to help advance today's move of the Holy Spirit throughout the world. “We also encourage the publishing of Pentecostal scholarship by recognizing the best works of Pentecostal biblical or academic scholarship through annual Declaration of Excellence Awards, by seeking out essays, theses, dissertations, conference papers, foreign publications, and out-of-print works worthy of wider circulation and assisting their authors in procuring it, and by subsidizing the publication, promotion, or dissemination of academic works that advance the Pentecostal faith.” More information about the foundation is available at its Web site: www.tffps.org |
Receiving the 2006 article awards were Blaine Charette, Professor of New Testament
and Chair of the Department of Biblical and Theological Studies at Northwest
University, Kirkland, Washington, for "'Tongues as of Fire': Judgement
as a Function of Glossolalia in Luke's Thought," published in Journal
of Pentecostal Theology; Paul Elbert, adjunct Professor of Theology and
Science at the Church of God Theological Seminary and of New Testament Theology
at Lee University, Cleveland, Tennessee, for "Acts of the Holy Spirit:
Hermeneutical and Historiographical Reflections," published in the Norwegian
journal Refleks: Med Karismatisk Kristendom i Focus; and John Christopher
Thomas, Professor of Biblical Studies at the Church of God Theological Seminary,
Cleveland, Tennessee, for “Healing in the Atonement: A Johannine Perspective,” published
in Journal of Pentecostal Theology.