Frederic Baue: The Spiritual Society
Baue’s vision of the future is grim; his book is a wake-up call. Although the author sets out to do more than can be accomplished within two hundred pages, the book invites dialogue and stimulates discussion. Dialogue with Pentecostals, for example, could lead to a very similar evaluation of the present worldview but would produce a very different outlook on the future. Spiritual warfare, Spirit baptism, divine healing, exorcism, and prophecy are not terms that will be found in this book. And yet it is in precisely those categories that the Pentecostal movement has encountered the darkness of this present age. At a time where Pentecostals are integrated and accepted in society and culture more than ever before, The Spiritual Society calls Pentecostals and others to discernment and dialogue. Baue’s work invites such dialogue, and for those who are not intimidated by the Lutheran perspective, the book may, after all, have a lot to say. Baue is alerting us to “keep our wicks trimmed, our lamps burning, alert, self-controlled, abounding in good works, encouraging one another and building each other up in the most holy faith, and fighting the good fight.”
Reviewed by Wolfgang Vondey
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