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These are papers presented at the annual meetings for the Society for Pentecostal Studies. SPS has become an international society of scholars interested in Pentecostal and Charismatic studies. The Society for Pentecostal Studies began in 1970 and is an organization of scholars dedicated to providing a forum of discussion for all academic disciplines as a spiritual service to the kingdom of God. The purpose of the Society is to stimulate, encourage, recognize, and publicize the work of Pentecostal and Charismatic scholars and scholars of Pentecostalism; to study the implications of Pentecostal theology in relation to other academic disciplines, seeking a Pentecostal world-and-life view; and to To encourage fellowship and facilitate co-ordination of effort among Pentecostal believers throughout the world. See SPS Website. for more information.
Browse the contents of Society for Pentecostal Studies Annual Meeting Papers (ORU Only Access):
- 2021 SPS Annual Meeting Papers: "This Is My Body": Addressing Global Violence Against Women
- 2019 SPS Annual Meeting Papers: Reception History: Receiving Scripture in the Pentecostal & Charismatic Traditions
- 2018 SPS Annual Meeting Papers: The Good News of the Kingdom and the Poor in the Land
- 2017 SPS Annual Conference Papers
- 46th Annual Conference held on March 9-11, 2017 in St. Louis, MO
- 2016 SPS Annual Conference Papers: Worship, Arts, and the Spirit
- 2015 SPS Annual Conference Papers- Global Spirit: Pentecostals and the World
- 44th Annual Conference held on March 12-14, 2015 in Lakeland, FL
- 2014 SPS Annual Conference Papers: Hermeneutics and the Spirit
- 2013 SPS Annual Conference Papers: Holiness (Joint meeting with the Wesleyan Theological Society)
- 2012 SPS Annual Conference Papers: Converge21 (Joint meeting with Empowered21)
- 2011 SPS Annual Meeting Papers: Receiving the Future (Memphis, TN)
- 2010 SPS Annual Conference Papers: New Voices, New Visions: Future and Hope of Pentecostal Theology
- 2009 SPS Annual Meeting Papers: What Does the Spirit Have To Say Through the Academy (Eugene, OR)
- 2008 SPS Annual Meeting Papers (March 13-15, 2008)
- 2007 SPS: The Role of Experience in Christian Life and Thought - Pentecostal Insights
- 2006 SPS Annual Conference Papers: Memories of the Azusa Street Revival
- 2005 SPS Annual Conference Papers: That Which We Have Received We Now Pass On: Spirit, Word, and Tradition in Pentecostalism
- 2004 SPS Annual Meeting Papers: Pentecostalism and the Body
- 2003 SPS Annual Meeting Papers
- 2002 SPS Annual Conference Papers
- 2001 SPS Annual Meeting Papers
- 2000 SPS Annual Conference Papers
- 1999 SPS Annual Meeting Papers
- 1998 SPS Annual Meeting Papers
- 1997 SPS Annual Meeting Papers
- 1996 SPS Annual Meeting Papers: Memory and Hope: The Society for Pentecostal Studies at 25 Years