Highlights from Society for Pentecostal Studies 2017
Mike Dies and I were able to attend the 46th Annual Meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies which was held at the St. Louis Marriott Hotel, March 9-11, 2017.
I always enjoy the opportunity to listen to what world-class Pentecostal scholars are producing and it is a real pleasure to reconnect with PneumaReview.com writers. This year’s convention provided many memorable meetings.
I experienced a spirit of unity during the powerful worship service that opened the 2017 convention. There is nothing like celebrating God’s goodness together with Pentecostal scholars from all over the world. You would not know from my pictures how involved this crowd of academics and professors was in dancing before the Lord, raising their hands in praise, singing, or praying in the Spirit—but it was wonderful.
I love books and was glad to browse the many offerings from the numerous publishers present for the conference. Standing at the Eerdmans table, I was able to personally thank Craig Keener for doing an interview with us about his recent book Spirit Hermeneutics. I also learned that it is Harrison House’s new imprint, Empowered Life, that is publishing Robert Graves‘ expanded and revised Praying in the Spirit (the earlier edition was reprinted in full in The Pneuma Review).
To see a list of papers and panels presented during the convention, see the SPS website. As always, there were many presentations I missed because I could not be in more than one place at a time.
I will be adding more pictures to the Pneuma Review Facebook page if you would like to connect with me there. Update: I’ve been able to add a direct link to the Facebook album on the third page of this article.
From left to right: Tony Richie, Mike Dies, Raul Mock, and Martin Mittelstadt. Lee Roy Martin.
From left to right: Craig S. Keener and Raul Mock. Raul Mock and Antipas Harris.
From left to right: Robert Menzies, Raul Mock, D. William Faupel, Glen Menzies, and Jeffrey Brickle. Lois Olena and Raul Mock.
From left to right: Néstor Medina presenting “Faith, the Cultural and the Spirit: Toward a Pneumatology of the Cultural.” Amos Yong, Raul Mock, and Frank Macchia. Amos Yong presenting “The Spirit Says Come: Kings, Nations, and Cultures on the Way to the New Jerusalem.”
From left to right: Wonsuk Ma and Raul Mock. Leah Payne and Raul Mock.
From left to right: Raul Mock and Bernie Van De Walle. Friday evening plenary, “Our Secular Age: A Conversation with Charles Taylor.”
From left to right: Harold Hunter and Raul Mock. Raul Mock and Wolfgang Vondey.
From left to right: Raul Mock, Ken and Melissa Archer. Rick Wadholm and Yoon Shin.
From left to right: Robert Graves and Raul Mock. Anna Droll and Raul Mock.
Excellent times for fellowship.
