Summer 2024

• Why Pentecostal Churches Are Growing

  In 2009 the University of Southern California established the Pentecostal and Charismatic Research Initiative (PCRI) with a $6.9 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation. In a news release dated February 24, 2009, PCRI spokesperson Donald Miller states, “We are interested in why Pentecostalism is ... Read More

• Workshop of the Holy Spirit: An Invitation to Theological Education

  Doug Strong and Jess Bielman, Workshop of the Holy Spirit: An Invitation to Theological Education (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2022), 152 pages, ISBN 9781532689093. Doug Strong and Jess Bielman offer this short volume intent on reimagining and reoffering an ancient medieval metaphor (the “workshop”) for contemporary practices ... Read More

• Bruce Yocum: Prophecy

  Bruce Yocum, Prophecy: Exercising the Prophetic Gifts of the Spirit in the Church Today (Word of Life, 1976), 150 pages, ISBN 9780892830299. I cannot recall exactly how I learned of this book that was published almost fifty years ago. The book is out of print and ... Read More

• William De Arteaga: Battling the Demonic

  William De Arteaga, Battling the Demonic: The Kingdom of God vs. the Kingdom of Darkness (2023), 174 pages, ISBN ‎ 9798857919569. In Battling the Demonic, prolific writer and chronicler of the moves of the Holy Spirit in the Western world, the Rev’d William L. De Arteaga ... Read More

• Emily Gardiner Neal: Apostle to the Skeptics

  Mrs. Emily Gardiner Neal (1910-1989) is now mostly forgotten despite being a major figure in the healing movement from 1956 when her first book came out, A Reporter Finds God Through Spiritual Healing. Before her conversion she was one of the outstanding reporters of her ... Read More

• Summer 2024: Other Significant Articles

  Matthew D. Kim, “Preaching on the Idolatry of Politics: 3 challenges to preach wisely on politics” Preaching Today (2024).   Karen L. Willoughby, “Space Force hymn writer inspired by ‘awe and wonder of God’” Baptist Press (July 3, 2024). PneumaReview.com author Jim Linzey writes: “the Baptist Press has ... Read More

• Paul Hattaway: Hainan: Pearl of the South China Sea

  Paul Hattaway, Hainan: Pearl of the South China Sea (United Kingdom: Piquant Editions, 2023, also published by Asia Harvest, 2023), 264 pages, ISBN 9781803290133. This book is part of Paul Hattaway’s “China Chronicles” series. The series is devoted to preserving the history of Christianity in China, ... Read More

• Table of Contents from Ian Hall: Times of Renewal

  Ian Hall, Times of Renewal: A History and Theology of Revival and Spiritual Awakenings   Table of Contents Introduction The Dynamics of Revival Chapter 1 Understanding Revival Chapter 2 Biblical Revivals – Old Testament Chapter 3 Biblical Revivals – New Testament Chapter 4 Historical Revivals – Early Church Chapter 5 Historical Revivals ... Read More

• The Dynamics of Revival

  This introduction to revival and his personal testimony, from atheist to revivalist, is an excerpt from Ian Hall’s book, Times of Renewal: A History and Theology of Revival and Spiritual Awakenings (Encourage Publishing, 2024).   Revival is a major topic of interest in the Christian world today. ... Read More

• Transformation in the Presence of God: an interview with Dr. Ian R. Hall

  PneumaReview.com: You have been in ministry for many years, please tell our readers a little bit about the different kinds of ministries that you have been involved in. Dr. Ian R. Hall: For 17 years I was a pastor and evangelist first with the Church of ... Read More

• Jesus Manifesto

  A special summary of the book Jesus Manifesto by Leonard Sweet & Frank Viola. Read More

• 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 ... Read More

• Ian Scott: Paul’s Way of Knowing

  Ian W. Scott, Paul’s Way of Knowing: Story, Experience, and the Spirit (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2009), 368 pages, ISBN 9780801036095. There have been a number of studies published recently on Paul’s epistemology – several of them trying to show that Paul’s epistemology was somehow “narratival”. ... Read More

• Bill Hull: Straight Talk on Spiritual Power, reviewed by Robert Graves

  Bill Hull, Straight Talk on Spiritual Power: Experiencing the Fullness of God in the Church (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2002), 255 pages, ISBN 9781441243720. Although the accuracy of teaching is preeminent when judging the quality of a book, credit must be given for its tone when ... Read More

• Bruce L. McCormack: Engaging the Doctrine of God

  Bruce L. McCormack, ed., Engaging the Doctrine of God: Contemporary Protestant Perspectives (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2008). Bruce McCormack, the Frederick and Margaret L. Weyerhaeuser Professor of Theology at Princeton, is the most interesting and helpful Barthian working today. He has made his mark working to ... Read More

• Mapping Modern Theology

  Kelly Kapic and Bruce McCormack, eds., Mapping Modern Theology: A Thematic and Historical Introduction (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2012), x + 421 pages, ISBN 9780801035357. Most books on contemporary theology trace key themes in theology or focus on the contributions of influential theologians. While these approaches ... Read More

• Thomas Oden and J.I. Packer: One Faith

  Thomas C. Oden and James I. Packer, One Faith: The Evangelical Consensus (Downer’s Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2004), 223 pages, ISBN 0830832394 Oden and Packer have done evangelicalism a valuable service in this work affirming and outlining its underlying unity contra a reputation for fragmentation. Drawing ... Read More