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Pentecostalism and the World Church- 2002 Ecumenical Opportunities and Challenges 31st ANNUAL MEETING March 14-16 • Southeastern College, Lakeland, FL Pentecostalism and the World Church- 2002 Ecumenical Opportunities and Challenges Six Plenary Sessions: The Holy Spirit in W orship, Mission, and Unity: A Pneumatoligical Reading of the Ecumenical Movement by Geoffrey Wainwright • Pentecostals and Christian Unity: Facing and Chal- lenge by Cecil M. Robeck • The Ecumenical Vocation of Pentecostalism by Donald Dayton • Presidential Address by Samuel Solivan • Ecumenism of the Spirit: Pentecostal Voices from Latin American and the Caribbean by Carmelo Alvarez • Africa as the Laboratory of the World: The African Christian Diaspora in Europe, Pentecostalism, and the Challenge to Mission and Ecumenical Relations by Roswith Gerloff Over Forty Parallel Sessions, including In Search of Foundations: The Oeuvre of Donald Gelpi, SJ and Its Significance for Pentecostal Theology, Philosophy and Spirituality by Amos Yong • And Signs Fol- lowing: Mark 16:9-20 - a Journey into Pentecostal Hermeneutics by John Christopher Thomas • Revelation: An Apocalyptic Call to Worship by Rebecca Skaggs • The Incredible, Riveting, History-Changing Signifi- cance of an Unnamed, Overlooked, Ignored, Obedient Woman: the Wife of Jeroboam by Robin Gallaher Branch • From East African Revival Movement to Pentecostal Renewal Movements in Post Independent Uganda: Ecumenism and Spirituality by James Ndyabahika • An Interdisciplinary Discussion of Amos Yong’s “Discerning the Spirit(s): A Pentecostal Charismatic Contribution to Christian Theology in Reli- gions” by Ralph Del Colle, Dale Irvin, and Peter Althouse • The Definition of ‘Pentecostal/Charismatic’ and its Implications for Ecumenism by Allan Anderson Roman Catholic-Pentecostal Dialogue: Y oung Theologians on Ecumenism Matthew Sutton, Steven Studebaker, and Wolfgang Vondey, panelists Eight Interest Groups: Biblical Studies, Historical Studies, Philosophy, Theology, Practical Theology/ Christian Formation, Mission & Intercultural Studies, Ecumenical Studies, Religion & Culture Lifetime Achievement Award presented to J. Rodman Williams Officers: President: Samuel Solivan • Executive Secretary: D. William Faupel • First Vice-President: Ralph Del Colle • Second Vice-President: Steven Jack Land • Pneuma Editor: Frank Macchia • Immediate Past President: Sherry Sherrod DuPree 32nd ANNUAL MEETING March 20-22 • Asbury Theological Seminary, Wilmore, KY Wesleyan and Pentecostal Movements for a 2003 New Century: Crucial Choices, Essential Contributions Six Plenary Sessions: The Babylonian Captivity of W esleyan Theology by Howard A. Snyder and Holistic Church Mission: Pentecostal Perspectives by Murray W. Dempster • Contribute or Capitulate? Wesleyans, Pentecostals, and Reading the Bible in Postcolonial Mode by Joel B. Green and Honoring Our Hermeneutical Heritage: How Pentecostal and Holiness Hermeneutics Have Empowered and Can Continue to Empower Women for Ministry by Janet Everts Powers • WTS Presidential Address by David Bundy: Vi- sions of the ‘God in Us’: Orthodox Themes in the Methodist Holiness and Pentecostal • Communities of Ho- liness, Communities of Spirit: Developing an Ecclesial Conversation for Discipleship by Dean G. Blevins and From Strength to Strength: A Vision for the Formation of Pentecostal Christians by Cheryl Bridges Johns • Gendered Sin? Gendered Holiness? Historical Consideration and Homiletical Implications by Diane Leclerc and ‘God Rode in the Windstorm’: The Vocation of an Historian after Christendom by David D. Daniels • SPS Presidential Address by Ralph Del Colle: Aesthetics and Pathos in the Vision of God: A Catholic/Pentecostal Encounter Over Sixty Parallel Sessions, including Messiah W ithout Anointing: A Missing Element in Cinematic Portrayals of Jesus by Blaine Charette • The Pneumatological Contributions of Yves Congar to Current Ecumenical Dialogue: Toward a Roman Catholic and Wesleyan/Pentecostal Theological Discourse by Richard Eckley • A Call to Conversion: The Spirit, A Pentecostal, and Elizabeth Johnson by Pamela Holmes Branch • A Tercentenary Celebration of John Wesley: A Mentor For Us All by Kenneth Collins • Holiness as an Aspect of the Spirit’s Work in the Book of Numbers by Roger Cotton • Toward a Pentecostal form of Thought: The Ecumenical Future of the Society for Pentecostal Studies by Wolfgang Vondey • An Ecumenism of the Spirit: An Alternative Interpretation of Glossolalia by Estrelda Alexander • The Church in Ecumenical Dialogue: Crucial Choices, Essential Contributions by Jeffrey Gros Catholic-Pentecostal Dialogue: The Time has Come: Latin American Pentecostals and Catholics in Dialogue Cheryl Bridges Johns and Jeffrey Gros, Co-Chairs Eight Interest Groups: Biblical Studies, Historical Studies, Philosophy, Theology, Practical Theology/ Christian Formation, Mission & Intercultural Studies, Ecumenical Studies, Religion & Culture Lifetime Achievement Award presented to Charles E. Jones Officers: President: Ralph Del Colle • Executive Secretary: D. William Faupel • First Vice-President: Steven J. Land • Second Vice-President: Anthea Butler • Pneuma Editor: Frank Macchia • Immediate Past President: Samuel Solivan 33rd ANNUAL MEETING March 11-13 • Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI Pentecostalism & the Body 2004 Six Plenary Sessions: Giving the W orld a Smile: Pentecostals and the W orld of Southern Gospel Entertainment by James Goff and The Holy Profane: Black Popular Music in Pentecostalism by Theresa Reed • Main Street Mystics: The Toronto Blessing and Reviving Pentecostalism by Margaret Poloma and Cogitations of a European Pentecostal on a North American Dilemma by Jean-Daniel Plüss • Thinking In the Spirit, Theologies of the Early Pentecostal Movement by Douglas Jacobsen and James Baldwin’s God: Sex, Hope, and Crisis in Black Holiness Culture by Clarence Hardy III • Presidential Address by Steven J. Land • Ethiopia Shall Stretch Her Hands to God: Pentecostalism, Global Christianity, and the Realignment of Christendom by Phillip Jenkins Over Forty Parallel Sessions, including Postmodern Pentecostals: A Study of Emerging Leaders by Earl Creps • The Pentecostal Way of Doing Theology: Method and Manner by Ken Archer • The Spirit and Politics: Giving ‘Voice/Body’ to the Spirit in a Revisitation of Mark 13:11 by Emerson B. Powery • Rediscovering Our Diverse Roots: Pentecostal Origins in Scandinavian Pietism in Minnesota and the Dakotas by Darrin Rodgers • Women of Azusa Street by Estrelda Alexander • A Pentecostal Reflection on the Eastern Orthodox Doctrine of the Body by Michael Raburn • Latino Pentecostal Identity: Evangelical Faith, Society, and the Self by Arlene Sanchez-Walsh • Ousting The Elephant of Non-Discipleship by Stephen Lim • Globalization, Pan-ethnic Diaspora & Hybrid People Groups: Essential Postmodern Con- cepts for Post September 11 Pentecostal Missiology by Joseph Castleberry • Foucault and the Body as Object of the Disciplinary Matrix by Douglas F. Olena Catholic-Pentecostal Dialogue: Visions of the End: Roman Catholic and Pentecostal Responses to the Left Behind Series Dale Coulter and Colt Anderson; Cheryl Bridges Johns, Chair Seven Interest Groups: Bible, History, Philosophy, Theology, Praxis, Missions, Religion & Culture Lifetime Achievement Award presented to Killian McDonald, O.S.B. Officers: President: Steven J. Land • Executive Secretary: David G. Roebuck • First Vice-President: Anthea D. Butler • Second Vice-President: Blaine Charette • Pneuma Editor: Frank Macchia • Immediate Past President: Ralph Del Colle • Webmaster: Harold D. Hunter 34th ANNUAL MEETING March 10-12 • Regent University, Virginia Beach, VA That Which We Have Received, We Now 2005 Pass On: Spirit, Word, and Tradition in Pentecostalism Six Plenary Sessions: Reflections on Renewal History by M.G. (Pat) Robertson and “W hat Meaneth This”?: A Question for Century 21 by Doug Beacham • The Church in the Power of the Holy Spirit: Reflections on Pentecostal Ecclesiology by Clark Pinnock • Traditions Pentecostals Should Pass On: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in Pentecostalism by Anthea Butler • Revisioning Pentecostal Theological Education for the 21st Century? by Ed Decker • The Beginnings of the Society for Pentecostal Studies Thirty-Five Years Ago by Vinson Synan • A Conversation with Professor Clark Pinnock Over Forty Parallel Sessions, including Living a Spirit-Filled Life: Josia Royce and Martin Heidegger on Lived Black Pentecostalism by Dwayne Tunstall • Spiritual Formation in Biblical Times by Charles Holman • Finding God Anew in the Moral, the Aesthetic and the Spiritual-Postmodernism and the ad hominem Argument for God’s Existence by L. William Oliverio • Charismata as Missionary Impulse in the Labrador Mission by David Newman • Psychology and Medicine in Pentecostal Healing Practices by Joseph Williams • Paul, His Opponents: Negotiating the Maze of Competing and Conflicting Spiritualties by James Hernando • The Dilemma of the Apostolic Nature of Mission in the Modern Missions by Gary B. McGee • A Pentecostal Evaluation of the Nature and Purpose of the Church by Frank Macchia Catholic-Pentecostal Dialogue: The Vision of Unity: A Pentecostal Response to Pope John Paul’s Encyclical That They All May Be One: Glen Menzies and Terry L. Cross, participants and Jeffrey Gros, respondent Eight Interest Groups: Bible, History, Philosophy, Theology, Missions, Religion & Culture, Ecumenism, Practical Theology Lifetime Achievement Award presented to Horace S. Ward. Officers: President: Anthea Butler • Executive Secretary: David G. Roebuck • First Vice-President:
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