Spring 2024

• A New Book: Karl Barth and Pentecostal Theology

  I just had a book published that I co-edited. I saw a few of the contributors posting pictures on social media of their copy of the book, and I just opened a package with my own copy today. I’m grateful those who contributed to the ... Read More

• Cabrini, reviewed by William De Arteaga

  Cabrini (Angel Studio, 2024). The newly released movie, Cabrini, is the story of St. Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini. She was an Italian nun who immigrated to New York in 1888 to serve the destitute Italian immigrants streaming into America. Their social and economic position was even ... Read More

• Giulio Maspero: Rethinking the Filioque with the Greek Fathers

  Giulio Maspero, Rethinking the Filioque with the Greek Fathers (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2023). Giulio Maspero’s book Rethinking the Filioque with the Greek Fathers addresses the seemingly perennial theological debate that has divided Christendom for a thousand years through a close reading of the development of ... Read More

• James Thompson: Christ and Culture in the New Testament

  James W. Thompson, Christ & Culture in the New Testament (Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2023), 227 pages, ISBN 9781666739466. James W. Thompson, a senior New Testament scholar and scholar in residence at Abilene Christian University, presents a compelling book on the interplay of Christianity and culture ... Read More

• Michael Gorman: Romans

  Michael J. Gorman, Romans: A Theological & Pastoral Commentary (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2022), 325 pages, ISBN 9780802877628. Do you remember the last time you consulted a commentary? There is a high probability that you did not read it all the way through ... Read More

• Amos Yong and Dale Coulter: The Holy Spirit and Higher Education

  Amos Yong and Dale M. Coulter, The Holy Spirit and Higher Education: Renewing the Christian University (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2023), 320 pages, ISBN 9781481318143. Amos Yong and Dale Coulter bring to bear a fruitful and constructive offering in The Holy Spirit and Higher Education ... Read More

• Spring 2024: Other Significant Articles

    Danielle Treweek, “Will ‘Complementarianism’ Survive?: I want to continue to call myself a complementarian. But we need to reclaim the term” Christianity Today (March 18, 2024). As appearing in the April 2024 issue of Christianity Today. Gaby Viesca, “Egalitarianism Is More Than a PR Statement: Are churches ... Read More

• Miraculous Living: Coming to Christ in His Realm

  Like Peter’s failing attempt to walk on the water, many believers are trying to approach Jesus from the realm of intellect and knowledge. While we thank God for the mind and its ability, human wisdom is not enough. Man is a spiritual as well as ... Read More

• Serving the Reigning Christ: an interview with Esther V. Shekher

  Here is a woman from a Hindu background now passionately serving Jesus Christ. PneumaReview.com has the privilege to introduce you to Evangelist Dr. Esther Shekher and let her tell us about her ministry and her book, All the Commandments of God: Find Out the Secret ... Read More

• Ricky Roberts: Just When Did Spiritual Gifts Cease?

  Ricky Roberts, Just When Did Spiritual Gifts Cease? (Florida: Creation House, 2003), 112 pages, ISBN 9781591852353. The basis of this short book is that the spiritual gifts have never ceased. Roberts divides his argument into scriptural and historical evidence. Roberts builds a case that the spiritual ... Read More

• An Invisible Postmodern Pentecostal Church

  In this guest article by David Redden, he discusses what an integrated paradigm of worship and discipleship might look like for today’s Pentecostal/charismatic. There is much talk about today as to what is Postmodern. You can read books and articles from Leonard Sweet to Peter Wagner ... Read More

• Dependency Upon God

  Independence is an American ideal, but God-dependency is a believer’s necessity. As Americans we are rightly proud of our Declaration of Independence. It took a lot of courage for those men in 1776 to declare their independence from the mightiest nation on earth at the time, ... Read More

• What Church History Can Teach Us [Americans] about Personal Tragedy

  Some stories related to the Protestant Reformation rarely escape the dusty pages upon which they’re written. Take the story of Martin Luther’s family life, for instance. Shortly after the Reformation got underway, the middle-aged Luther married a former nun, Katharine von Bora. Together they raised ... Read More

• The Meaning of Life

  A devotional about what is most important. Read More

• 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: ... Read More

• 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 ... Read More