Gary Graff: Can a Christian Have an Unclean Spirit?

Gary Graff: Can a Christian Have an Unclean Spirit?

  Gary Hal Graff, Can a Christian Have an Unclean Spirit? Volume I: Satan and the Angels (El Cajon, CA: Christian Service Network, 1999), 200 pages, ISBN 9781879854802. Gary Hal Graff, Can a Christian Have an Unclean Spirit? Volume II: The Theology and History (El Cajon, CA: Christian Service Network, 1999), 249 pages, ISBN 9781879854147. Gary Hal Graff, Can a …

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Advents of the Spirit, reviewed by Amos Yong

Advents of the Spirit, reviewed by Amos Yong

  Bradford E. Hinze and D. Lyle Dabney, eds., Advents of the Spirit: An Introduction to the Current Study of Pneumatology, Marquette Studies in Theology 30 (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2002), 484 pages, ISBN 9780874626797. There are two main reasons why I want to encourage readers of the Pneuma Review to read this book. The first concerns my passion that …

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Rodman Williams: The Gift of the Holy Spirit Today: Purpose, Part 1

Rodman Williams: The Gift of the Holy Spirit Today: Purpose, Part 1

  The first part of chapter four from Professor Williams' book, The Gift of the Holy Spirit Today, about the greatest reality of our time. The Gift of the Holy Spirit Today: Response (Chapter 3) Chapter Four: Purpose The central purpose for the gift of the Holy Spirit is power. The biblical term is dunamis—power, strength, might, force—and as the …

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“Strange Fire"? Not in a Global Pentecostal Context of Ministry

“Strange Fire"? Not in a Global Pentecostal Context of Ministry

Are Pentecostals offering Strange Fire? (Panel Discussion) “Strange Fire"? Not in a Global Pentecostal Context of Ministry An international panel of ministry veterans responds to John MacArthur’s Strange Fire Dony K. Donev with Dennis Balcombe, Hanny Setiawan and Marius Lombaard Almost one year ago, internationally known author John MacArthur began campaigning for his new book Strange Fire. With lots of …

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Rodman Williams: The Gift of the Holy Spirit Today: Response

Rodman Williams: The Gift of the Holy Spirit Today: Response

  The third chapter from Professor Williams' book, The Gift of the Holy Spirit Today, about the greatest reality of our time.   The Gift of the Holy Spirit Today: Dimensions (Chapter 2) Chapter Three: Response The human response to the giving of the Holy Spirit is essentially the praise of God. When human existence—individually and in community—is bathed with …

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Jeff Bailey: Worship and Spirituality in the New World

Jeff Bailey: Worship and Spirituality in the New World

  Cutting Edge 2:1 (1998) Jeff Bailey, “Worship and Spirituality in the New World” Cutting Edge (Vol 4, No 2, Summer 2000), pages 16-18. Jeff Bailey, co-editor of Vineyard Churches’ (USA) church planting magazine Cutting Edge, has been interviewing and conversing with a number of postmodern theologians in the last few issues. In the July 2000 issue of Cutting Edge, …

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Bruce McCormack: Orthodox and Modern

Bruce McCormack: Orthodox and Modern

  Bruce L. McCormack, Orthodox and Modern: Studies in the Theology of Karl Barth (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2008). Bruce McCormack is the Frederick and Margaret L. Weyerhaeuser Professor of Systematic Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. He instantly became one of the world's leading interpreters of Karl Barth's thought with the publication of Karl Barth's Critically Realistic Dialectical Theology: Its …

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Rodman Williams: The Gift of the Holy Spirit Today: Dimensions

Rodman Williams: The Gift of the Holy Spirit Today: Dimensions

  The second chapter from Professor Williams' book, The Gift of the Holy Spirit Today, about the greatest reality of our time. The Gift of the Holy Spirit Today: Background (Chapter 1) Chapter Two: Dimensions We come now to a consideration of the actual giving of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit promised by the Father, sent by the Son, …

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Who Speaks for Whom? Why? When?

Who Speaks for Whom? Why? When?

  A challenge to church leaders about social justice, a guest article about Hariette Beecher Stowe and William Wells Brown. Even though William Wells Brown and Harriet Beecher Stowe speak from widely divergent backgrounds (black/white, slave/free, male/female, richer/poorer), their concerns unite when they speak about the pivotal role which Christian Education assumed for itself in the lives of antebellum slaves. …

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Rodman Williams: The Gift of the Holy Spirit Today: Background

Rodman Williams: The Gift of the Holy Spirit Today: Background

  The first chapter from Professor Williams' book, The Gift of the Holy Spirit Today, about the greatest reality of our time. The Gift of the Holy Spirit Today: Preface The Gift of the Holy Spirit Today: Introduction Chapter One: Background It is important at the outset to reflect upon the background for the gift of the Holy Spirit. For …

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