Fall 2025

• An Angel Saved My Life

  It was an ordinary day and a familiar drive. I was in the very back of Mother’s 1959 Dodge Sierra station wagon observing the familiar sights that we routinely passed when we headed toward Naval Air Station Charleston. I was five years old and my ... Read More

• We Are United in Messiah

    When we talk about our identity in Jesus, we often use terms that are singular and individualistic. “I am a child of God.” “My body is the temple of the Holy Spirit and I am a member of the Body of Christ.” These are truths ... Read More

• A Sober Word to the Charismatic Movement: an interview with Frank Viola

  Raul Mock of The Pneuma Review recently interviewed bestselling author Frank Viola about his new book The Untold Story of the New Testament Church (2025) with Foreword by Craig Keener.   Raul Mock: For PneumaReview.com readers that have not yet encountered you, please tell us about your ... Read More

• Wolfgang Vondey: The Scandal of Pentecost

  Wolfgang Vondey, The Scandal of Pentecost: A Theology of the Public Church (New York: T&T Clark, 2024), 269 pages, ISBN 9780567712646. Here is a book that lingers in the mind like an unresolved chord. In the cacophony of modern theology, where the church often whispers from ... Read More

• Paul Hattaway: Fujian: The Blessed Province

  Paul Hattaway, Fujian: The Blessed Province (United Kingdom: Langham Global Library, 2025), 368 pages. ISBN-10:1786411326, ISBN-13:978-1786411327 This book is the latest release in Paul Hattaway’s “China Chronicles” series. Each book is published not only in English but also in Chinese, the author’s intent in writing them ... Read More

• Aida Besancon Spencer: The Exegetical Process

  Aída Besançon Spencer, The Exegetical Process: How to Write a New Testament Exegesis Paper Step-by-Step (Kregel Academic, 2025), 274 pages, ISBN 9780825449161. Aída Besançon Spencer’s The Exegetical Process offers a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to New Testament exegesis designed primarily for seminary students and undergraduate biblical studies ... Read More

• Fall 2025: Other Significant Articles

  In case you missed it: Janet Epp Buckingham, “Ban the Mob, Not the Bible: Christians are the victims of hate in some places and the targets of hate speech laws in others. How can believers advocate for nations to address both threats in a consistent, ... Read More

• In the Midst: Biblical Hope and Suffering, an interview with Craig Keener

  PneumaReview.com: What led you to write a book on the subject of suffering? Craig Keener: Seeing what dominates our culture’s interests reinforced my feeling that the church in the U.S. is largely unprepared for suffering. Although the Bible talks a lot about suffering, sometimes when it ... Read More

• Josiah Baker: A Visible Unity

  Josiah Baker, A Visible Unity: Cecil Robeck and the Work of Ecumenism (Lanham: Fortress Academic, 2024), 278 pages, ISBN 9781978717206. A Visible Unity: Cecil Robeck and the Work of Ecumenism is a revised version of Josiah Baker’s dissertation, written under the supervision of Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen ... Read More

• Presence Is a Verb

  Presence Is a Verb—a State of Being and an Action The woman abruptly arose from the Sunday dinner table and accusingly spoke to her husband, “You wouldn’t care if I drowned in the waterhole.” She then turned and walked out the door. It had been a ... Read More

• Randy Frazee: The Connecting Church

  Randy Frazee, The Connecting Church: Beyond Small Groups to Authentic Community (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2001), 245 pages. Frazee’s book started off with three forewords; one by Larry Crabb, George Gallup Jr. and Dallas Willard. Its back cover contained words of praise from Willard, Ken Blanchard, J. ... Read More

• Philip Esler: New Testament Theology

  Philip F. Esler, New Testament Theology: Communion and Community (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2005). The title of Philip Esler’s New Testament Theology is ill-chosen. Although the book provides a good introduction to a number of aspects that qualify the task of writing a New Testament theology, the book ... Read More

• Charles W. Fuller: The Trouble with “Truth through Personality”

  Charles W. Fuller, The Trouble with “Truth through Personality”: Phillip Brooks, Incarnation, and the Evangelical Boundaries of Preaching (Eugene, Ore.: Wipf & Stock, 2010), 137 pages, ISBN 9781608994038. ‘Preaching is the bringing of truth through personality,’ stated Phillips Brooks, the former rector of Trinity Church in ... Read More

• Tongues and Other Miraculous Gifts in the Second Through Nineteenth Centuries

    In this five part series, Richard M. Riss presents evidence for the operation of the gifts of the Spirit throughout the Church Age. Part 1 (Fall 1998): From the Early Church to the 3rd Century Part 2 (Winter 1999): 3rd to the 5th Centuries Part 3 (Spring 1999): ... Read More

• Do You Ever Wonder Why Things You Want Don’t Happen?

  Have you ever wondered why some things you have asked God for never seem to come to pass? Read More

• The Duration of Prophecy by Wayne Grudem

  How long did God expect prophecy to function in the church? The Duration of Prophecy: How Long Will Prophecy Be Used in the Church?  (Part 1) from the Spring 2001 issue. The Duration of Prophecy: How Long Will Prophecy Be Used in the Church?  (Part 2) from ... Read More