Award Receipients
Wesleyan Theological Society
Past Award Winners Lifetime Achievement Award Winners
Robert A. Traina 1994
James Earl Massey 1995
Melvin E. Dieter 1996
William M. Greathouse 1997
David A. Seamands 1998
J. Kenneth Grider 1999
Susan A. Schultz Rose and Delbert R. Rose 2000
David L. McKenna 2001
A. Wingrove Taylor 2002
Charles Edwin Jones 2003
H. Ray Dunning 2004
Richard S. Taylor 2005
None Awarded 2006
Paul Bassett 2007
Rob L. Staples 2008
Barry L. Callen 2009
Donald Dayton 2010
Howard S. Snyder 2011
Susie Stanley 2012
William J. Abraham 2013
David Bundy 2015
Craig Keen, 2016
J. Steven O'Malley, 2017
William Kostlevy, 2018
Smith/Wynkoop Book Award
2000 Douglas M. Strong, Perfectionist Politics
2001 William J. Abraham, Canon and Criterion
2002 Diane Leclerc, Singleness of Heart
2003 Laurence A. Wood, The Meaning of Pentecost
2004 Floyd T. Cunningham, Holiness Abroad
2005 Samuel M. Powell. Participating in God: Creation and Trinity. Augsburg Fortress. 2003.
2006 James Earl Massey. African Americans and the Church of God (Anderson, Ind.): Aspects of a Social History. Anderson University Press. 2005.
2007 Howard A. Snyder. Populist Saints: B. T. and Ellen Roberts and the First Free Methodists. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 2006.
2008 Charles Jones, The Wesleyan Holiness Movement: A Guide
2009 J. Randall Stephens, The Fire Spreads: Holiness and Pentecostalism in the American South
2010 Randy L. Maddox and Jason E. Vickers, eds. The Cambridge Companion to John Wesley
2011 John Wigger, American Saint: Francis Asbury and the Methodists
2012 Dean Fleming, New Beacon Bible Commentary: Philippians.
2013 Jennifer L. Woodruff Tait, The Poisoned Chalice: Eucharistic Grape Juice and Common-Sense Realism in Victoriam Methodism
2014 Robert Wall (with Richard B. Steele). I and II Timothy and Titus
2015 Priscilla Pope-Levison, Building The Old Time Religion: Women Evangelists in the Progressive Era.
2016 Randy Maddox, Paul Chilcote, Kenneth Collins, Ted Campbell, The Works of John Wesley: Doctrinal and Controversial Treatises, II
2017 John Drury, The Resurrected God
2018 Luther Jeremiah O'Conor, Spirit-Filled Protestantism
Dissertation Award
2006
Mark H. Mann, "Perfectin Grace: Holiness, Human Being, and the Sciences"
2007
Benjamin L. Hartley, "Holliness Evangelical Urban Mission and Identity in Boston, 1860-1910"
2008
Joanne Cruickshank, "Charles Wesley and the Construction of Suffering in Eighteenth Century England"Geordan Hammond, "Restori
2009
Geordan Hammond, "Restoring Primitive Christianity:John Wesley and Georgia, 1735-1737"
2010
Brian Clark, "The Contentious Birth of Wesleyn Methodism, 1738- 1741:Gender, Charism, and Sectarian Division."
2011
Brent D. Peterson "A Post-Wesleyan Eucharistic Ecclesiology: The Renewal of the Church as the Body of Christ to Be Doxologically Broken and Spilled Out for the World."
Patrick Alan Eby, "The One Thing Needful: The Development of Charles Wesley's Theology of the Restoration of the Image of God."
2012
Stanley J. Rodes, "From Faith to Faith: An Examination of the Servant-Son Metaphor in John Wesley's Theological Thought."
2013
Steven Joe Koskie, "Reading the Way to Heaven: A Wesleyan Theological Hermeneutic of Scripture."
2016
Kara Lyons-Pardue
2018
Robert Ellis Haynes, "Consuming Mission: Toward a Theology of Short Term Mission."
Pastor/Preacher/Scholar Award
2006 Brian Postlewait, Jeren Rowell, William Watty
2007 Robert Branson
2008 Robert Luhn
2009 Ronald V. Duncan
2011 Major JoAnn Shade
2012 Dan Boone and Andrew Kinsey
2013 H. Mark Abbott
2014 Steven Borger
2015 Henry Spaulding
2016 Kevin Mannoia
2017 Timothy Tennant
2018 Maxie Dunnam