2009 SPS Annual Meeting Papers: What Does the Spirit Have To Say Through the Academy (Eugene, OR)

“A Pentecostal Perspective in a Politically Pugnacious Environment”

John C. Johnson

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“A Tale of Two Cities: A Holiness Mystic and an Activist Pentecostal Critique of the Academy”

Joel Halldorf

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“A.J. Tomlinson’s Emerging Ecclesiology: Theological Influences on the Founders of the Church of God (Cleveland, TN): A Debate”

Harold D. Hunter

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“Affirming Our Legacy of Spiritual Formation: A Pentecostal Response to a Postmodern Redefinition of Spirituality within the Academy”

Joseph J. Saggio

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“At the Intersection of Commerce and Pneumatology: How Demos Shakarian Changed Global Christianity”

Matthew Tallman

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“Azusa Street Redux: Renewal for Twenty-First Century Pentecostal Missiology”

J. Stephen Jester

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“Communicative Language Teaching &Biblical Hebrew”

Bob Stallman

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“Demonology and Anthropology in Conversation: Applying the Theological Method of Amos Yong towards a Demonology for the Twenty-First Century”

David Bradnick

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“Dignitas Terrae: A Pentecostal Engagement of Recent Roman-Catholic Eco-Theology”

A. J. Swoboda

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“Discernment and the Search for Beauty in the Cinema”

Shane Clifton

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“Does God Engage in Rape? Rape as a Military Motif in the Prophets”

Rebecca Simmons

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“Drunk No More: The Biblical Case for Sobriety and Intellectual Awareness in Acts 2”

D. Michael Postlethwait, Oral Roberts University

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“Early Pentecostal Eschatology in the Light of the Apostolic Faith, 1906-1908”

Larry McQueen

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“Embracing the Practice: Expanding the Meaning”

J. “Corky” L. Alexander Jr.

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“Emergentist Panentheism as a Metaphysical Framework for Pneumatological Theism”

Frederick L. Ware

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“Ethical Imperatives and the Holy Spirit in Codex Bezae1 – Luke-Acts”

Bob Welch

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“Expressionism: Ametaphor for Painting a Picture of Early American Pentecostalism”

Jennifer A. Miskov

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“Faith Integration: Sausage Making or Wisdom Tradition?”

Steven M. Fettke

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“Fulfilling the Apostolic Mandate in Apostolic Power: Seeking a Spirit-Driven Missiology and Praxis”

DeLonn Rance

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“God at Graduate School: Research and Models for Training Spirit-Filled Counselors in Secular Counselor Education”

Robert L. Moore

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“Imaging God, Embodying Christ: Can Pentecostals Contribute a ‘Pneu’-Matological Argument for Women in Ministry?”

Lisa P. Stephenson

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“Kenosis and Emergence: An Intrinsic Connection”

Bradford McCall

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“N. T. Wright—Right or Wrong For Pentecostals? A Survey of His Thought and Its Implications for Pentecostals”

Jeffrey S. Lamp, Oral Roberts University

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“Not By Words Alone!: Mujeristas’ and Pentecostalistas’ missiologies of Liberation from the Hispanic Margins”

Angel Santiago-Vendrell

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“Paradigms as Best Accounts of our Word: Can Christian Thought Learn from Philosophy of Science?”

L. William Oliverio Jr.

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“Pentecostal Pluralism in the Academy: Can a Wittgensteinian Epistemology of Intellectual Humility Show the Way to Unity?”

Paul Oxley

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“Postmodernity, Pentecostalism – And Rudolf Bultmann: A Pentecostal Appraisal of Bultmannian Hermeneutics in the World of GenX”

Bradley Truman Noel

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“Procreation, Migration, and Dominion in Genesis 1:28 and Its Missiological Importance”

Joseph Castleberry

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“Revelation 7: Three Critical Questions”

Thomas Doyle
Rebecca Skaggs

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“Rulers of Darkness: Towards a Pentecostal Missiology of Poverty and Underdeveopment in Africa”

Clifton Clarke

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“Seymour on Scripture”

Renea Brathwaite

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“Spirit and Peace in Luke-Acts: Possibilities for Pentecostal/Anabaptist Dialogue”

Martin William Mittelstadt

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“The Charism of Prophecy and Social Justice (Amos)”

Lyle Story

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“The Cult of True Evangelism: Marriage and Ministry in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries”

Leah Payne

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“The Designation Shift from the Ugaritic Rephaim to the Israelite Yhwh Rophe: The Divine Healer in Exodus 15:26 and its Theological Implication”

Joonho Yoon

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“The Hidden Promise of Expository Preaching For Pentecostal Spirituality and Practice”

Jeff C. Magruder

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“The Missionary Women of Early Pentecost: Call, Challenge, and Opportunity”

Rosemarie Daher Kowalski

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“The Mystery of the Great Whore – Pneumatic Discernment in Revelation 17”

John Christopher Thomas

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“The Spirit and the Academy”

William K. Kay

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“The Spirit of Christ and Supernatural Grace: Toward a Christological Understanding of Spiritual Gifts”

Jacob Dodson

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“The Spirit of Resistance: The Postcolonial Activity of the Spirit in Scripture”

Aaron M. Denbo

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“The Spirit that Hovers: The Spirit of God and Creation in the Old Testament”

Scott A. Ellington

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“’The Trees of the Field Will Clap Their Hands’: Is There Hope for the Renewal of Creation in Second Isaiah?”

Jacqueline Grey

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“The Whole Gospel for the Whole World: A. B. Simpson and the Emergence of the Pentecostal Bible School Movement, 1880-1920”

P. Douglas Chapman

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“Tongues and Ethics: William J. Seymour and the “Bible Evidence” a Response to Cecil M. Robeck, Jr.”

Renea Brathwaite

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“Towards a Pentecostal Ecclesiology: Participation in the Missional Life of the Triune God”

Peter Althouse

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“Trinitarian Preaching: Preaching out of Being”

Derek Knoke

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“Walking by the Spirit in Romans 8:4”

James M. Henderson

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“What Does it Mean to Read the Bible as a Pentecostal?”

Andrew Davies

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“What Pentecostals Might Learn from Nestorian Missions”

Robert L. Gallagher

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“Why some and Not Others: A Proposal Concerning the Deuteronomistic Historian’s Association of the Divine Spirit with Othniel, Gideon, Jephthah and Samson”

John Ragsdale

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“Why Was Jesus Baptized? New Light from the Dead Sea Scrolls”

Hannah K. Harrington

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“William J. Seymour: Antecedents that Shaped His Theology”

Charles Fox

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“Women and the Landscape of American Higher Education: Wesleyan Holiness and Pentecostal Founders”

Abraham Ruelas

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“Women’s Agency/Involvement and the Future of Pentecostalism: The Case of West Africa”

Adelaide Boadi

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