This year’s Book Awards of Excellence went to Frank D. Macchia for his Tongues of Fire: A Systematic Theology of the Christian Faith (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books-Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2023) and Amos Yong and Dale M. Coulter’s The Holy Spirit and Higher Education: Renewing the Christan University (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2023). Macchia is Professor of Systematic Theology at Vanguard University and Associate Director of the Centre for Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies at Bangor University, Wales; Yong is Professor of Theology & Mission and Dean of the School of Mission & Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary; Coulter is Professor of Historical Theology at Pentecostal Theological Seminary. Other books considered for this year’s award were as follows: John’s Re-Enchanting the Text; Collins’s Charismatic Christianity; Oliverio’s Pentecostal Hermeneutics in the Late Modern World; Tyra’s Introduction to Spirituality; Macchia’s Introduction to Theology; Félix-Jäger and Shin’s Renewing Christian Worldview; Reynolds’s The Rise and Fall of the Techno-Messiah; Griffiths’s The Spirit as Gift in Acts; Peterson’s Genesis; Kay and Butler’s Pentecostal and Charismatic Education; Vondey’s The Scandal of Pentecost; Cartledge’s The Holy Spirit in Public Life.
Three Awards of Excellence for short works were conferred this year to the following scholars:
J. Gordon Melton, “The Beginnings of African American Pentecostalism: The Case of Texas” (Pneuma 45.1 [2023]: 5–20), Robert Menzies’s “Pentecostal Eschatology: Why Amillennialism Is a Better Fit” (Journal of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity 43.2 [2023]: 118–32), and William B. Bowes, “Who Has the Spirit? Negotiating Authority in Jude and 1 John” (Journal of Pentecostal Theology 32 [2023]: 176–94).
(SOURCE: The Foundation for Pentecostal Scholarship)