Answering the Cessationists’ Case against Continuing Spiritual Gifts, by Jon Ruthven

³ See my review article of Counterfeit Revival, “Was Jesus also a Heretic?” Charisma (July 1997).
⁴ (Zarephath, N.J.: Pillar of Fire Publishers, [1936] 1949), 92. You can see another variation of this on the internet: http://www.hopeint.org/off/9611-04.htm. http://www.tebidine.com/bethany/guestbook/guestbook.html.
⁵ Stanley M. Burgess, The Holy Spirit: Ancient Christian Traditions (formerly titled The Spirit and the Church: Antiquity (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1984)), Ronald N. Kydd, Charismatic Gifts in the Early Church: An Explora­tion into the Gifts of the Spirit in the First Three Centuries of the Christian Church (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1984), Johan C. Beker, “Prophecy and the Spirit in the Apostolic Fathers,” (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 1955); George Williams and Edith Wald­vogel, “A History of Speaking in Tongues and Related Gifts,” in The Charismatic Movement, edited by Michael P. Hamil­ton (Grand Rapids: Eerd­mans Publishing Co., 1975), 61‑113; Ted A. Campbell, “Char­ismata in the Christian Communities of the Second Century,” Wes­leyan Theological Journal 17 (Fall 1982): 7‑25; Darling, Frank C. Christian healing in the Middle Ages and Beyond (Boulder, Colo.: Vista Publications, 1990); idem, The Restoration of Christian Healing: New Freedom in the Church since the Reformation (Boulder Colo.: Vista Publications, 1992); H. M. Evans, “Ter­tullian: Pentecostal of Carthage,” Paraclete 9 (Fall 1975): 17‑21; Andrew T. Floris, “Two Fourth Century Witnesses on the Charis­mata,” Para­clete 4 (Fall 1970): 17‑22; “Chrysostom and the Charis­mata,” Para­clete 5 (Winter 1971): 17‑22; Harold Hunter, “Tongues‑speech: A Patris­tic Analysis,” Jour­nal of the Evangelical Theo­logical Society 23 (June 1980): 125‑37; Morton Kelsey, Healing and Christian­ity (New York: Harper and Row, 1973), 135‑99; Jean LaPorte, “The Holy Spirit, Source of Life and Activ­ity according to the Early Church,” In Perspectives on Char­ismatic Renew­al, ed. Edward D. O’Connor (South Bend, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1975): 57‑99; Cecil M. Robeck, Jr., “Visions and Proph­ecy in the Writings of Cyprian,” Paraclete 16 (Summer 1982): 21‑25; Hermann Schlingensiepen, Die Wunder des Neuen Testament: Wege und Abwege bis zur Mitte des fnften Jahrhunderts (Gttersloh: Verlag I. Bertles­mann, 1933); Hendrik F. Stander, “Miraculous Charisms in Euseb­ius’s Time,” Paraclete 21 (Fall 1982): 11‑14; Jacques Serr, “Les charisms dans la vie de l’ eglise; temoinanges patris­tiques,” Foi et Vie 72, no. 1 (1973): 33‑42 and Eusebius A. Stephanou, “The Charismata in the Early Church Fathers,” The Greek Orthodox Theo­logical Review 21 (Summer 1976): 125‑46, among others.
⁶ Gary S. Shogren, “Christian Prophecy and Canon in the 2^nd Century: A Response to B. B. Warfield,” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 40/4 (Dec 1997), 609-26.
⁷ Gary S. Shogren, “When and How Does “the Perfect” Come? 1 Cor 13:8-12 in Patristic Exegesis,” forthcoming in Journal of Pentecostal Studies.
⁸ NPF, 1st ser., I: 485.
⁹ See note 4, above. Gregory VI? Epistle XXX, PNF 12.2, 1163.
¹⁰ Cited in Th. Jungkunz, “Charismatic Renewal,” Concordia Theological Monthly 42/1 (1971), 5-23.

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Category: Pneuma Review, Spirit, Spring 2000