The full issue of The Pneuma Review (14:4) Fall 2011.

The full issue of The Pneuma Review (14:3) Summer 2011, now in digital format. Find all of the articles and reviews, in easy-to-read format on the Archive page.

Jennifer Powell McNutt, “The Enduring Church: Believers in every age worry about the collapse of the faith” Christianity Today (January 2011), pages 44-47.

Morality declining? Bad doctrine hurting churches? Others have worried about such things before. What can this tell us about our call to reach our generation?

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Craig S. Keener, “How Did We Get the Bible?” Charisma (January 2011), pages 56-58, 60.

New Testament scholar Craig Keener introduces readers to the development of the canon.

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Robby Butler, “Going Radical: Young Megachurch Pastor Ignites A Movement to Radical Discipleship” Mission Frontiers (Nov-Dec 2010), pages 6-9.

In September 2008, Dr. David Platt started an eight-part sermon series titled “The Radical Demands of the Gospel” that has since been condensed into the bestseller Radical: Taking Back Your Faith From the American Dream. Discipleship trainer Robby Butler introduces us to this call that asks “What will it take to reach the lost?”

www.missionfrontiers.org/issue/archive/going-radical

Read a chapter from Steven M. Fettke’s new book, God’s Empowered People: A Pentecostal Theology of the Laity (Wipf & Stock 2011).

“How should we lead the church?” Eric Scalise continues the conversation with his article, “Healthy Leadership and the High Cost of Caring.”

Some reviews to look for in the Fall 2011 issue:

Pentecostal scholar Amos Yong reviews the new book by Miroslav Volf, Allah: A Christian Response (HarperOne, 2011).

N. T. Wright’s 2009 book, Justification: God’s Plan and Paul’s Vision from IVP Academic, contributing to the on-going discussion on atonement and Paul’s perspective, is reviewed by John Poirier.

John Miller reviews Jamie Smith’s first contribution to the Pentecostal Manifestos series from Eerdmans: James K. A. Smith, Thinking in Tongues: Pentecostal Contributions to Christian Philosophy.

Wolfgang Vondey tells us that at least three rewards are in store for readers of Mark J. Cartledge’s book, Testimony in the Spirit: Rescripting Ordinary Pentecostal Theology.

John W. Kennedy, “Youth with a Passion: In its first 50 years, YWAM has deployed four million workers in 240 countries. Now it sets its sights on 152 remaining unreached people groups” Christianity Today (Dec 2010), pages 40-45.

Includes the story of Loren Cunningham’s break with the Assemblies of God to pursue non-denominational ministry, his wife Doreen’s miraculous healing and the recognition of today’s Assemblies of God leadership that Cunningham was right.

www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2010/december/13.40.html

The Pneuma Review interviews Loren Sandford, asking him about growing up under his parents’ ministry, how God prepares people for prophetic ministry and what he sees in today’s prophetic movement.

Join the continuing conversation asking, “How should we lead the church?” The Summer 2011 issue will feature an article by Aldwin Ragoonath. Stressing the anointing of the Holy Spirit in our ministries, Ragoonath offers practical advice from his extensive experience in the global church.

Some reviews to look for in the Summer 2011 issue:

Mara Lief Crabtree reviews David Augsburger, Dissident Discipleship: A Spirituality of Self-Surrender, Love of God, and Love of Neighbor from Brazos Press.

In an extended essay, Tony Richie looks at the Christianity Today December 2010 article by Scott McKnight, “Jesus vs. Paul.”

Carolyn Baker takes a look at one of Gary M. Burge’s latest books, Jesus and the Land: The New Testament Challenge to “Holy Land Theology” (Baker Academic, 2010).

Ajith Fernando, “To Serve Is to Suffer: If the apostle Paul knew fatigue, anger, and anxiety in his ministry, what makes us think we can avoid them in ours?” Christianity Today (August 2010), pages 30-33.

Ajith Fernando

Ajith Fernando, Bible teacher from Sri Lanka, prophetically reminds Christian leaders of the West about the forgotten place of suffering in ministry.

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One of the responses to Fernando’s article, by Libby Little, was written shortly before learning that her husband had been brutally murdered while returning from a medical mission in rural Afghanistan.

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Richard Twiss (1954 – 2013)

Richard Twiss, “Making Jesus Known in Knowable Ways” Mission Frontiers (September-October 2010), pages 6-9.

Richard Twiss says that for too long and too often Christian ministry has tried to eradicate local culture and customs.

www.missionfrontiers.org/issue/article/making-jesus-known-in-knowable-ways [Available as of April 23, 2014]

Julian Lukins, “A Professor with Spirit: Pentecostal Bible scholar Gordon Fee has spent the last 40 years proving that the Holy Spirit and biblical scholarship can peacefully coexist” Charisma (September 2010), pages 48-50, 52, 65.

An introduction to a scholar who “happens to be a lifelong Pentecostal.”

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The cover story of the September 2010 issue features Loren Cunningham, who founded Youth With A Mission (YWAM).

Mark Galli, “Did the Spirit Really Say…?: God’s will is harder and easier to discern than we imagine” Christianity Today Online.

In this web-only article, the senior managing editor of Christianity Today, Mark Galli, writes about an encounter with the Holy Spirit while attending the Pentecostal World Conference, “While I don’t call myself a Pentecostal, I am sure that Pentecostals would accept some of my spiritual experiences as evidence of ‘Spirit baptism,’ and thus welcome me into the fold. So there is much in the movement that I resonate with. Personal negotiations with the Spirit would be one of these things.”

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Join the continuing conversation asking, “How should we lead the church?” Woodrow Walton makes “The Case for Anonymous Leadership.”

In “Theological Roots of the Word of Faith Movement: New Thought Metaphysics or Classic Faith Movements?” historian Paul King introduces us to the origins of the controversial Word of Faith movement.

Some reviews to look for in the Spring 2011 issue:

Tony Richie reviews The Handbook of Theological Education in World Christianity: Theological Perspectives, Ecumenical Trends, Regional Surveys from Regnum.

Significant excerpts from Timothy Lim’s in-depth review of Patrick Downey, Desperately Wicked: Philosophy, Christianity and the Human Heart.

Pastor Jim Purves reviews Timothy Ward’s book Words of Life: Scripture as the Living and Active Word of God from IVP Academic (2009).

The Kingdom and the Power. The Pneuma Review has received permission to reprint chapters from this important work that asks: “Are Healing and the Spiritual Gifts Used by Jesus and the Early Church Meant for the Church Today?” The Winter 2011issue will conclude this series with “The Sufficiency of Scripture and Distortion of What Scripture Teaches About Itself.”

Veteran missionary Jim Harries introduces us to what vulnerable mission looks like in “Deliverance Ministry in an African Cultural Perspective.”

How should we lead the church?

As part of our continuing discussion, Victor Cuartas will present “How to Lead a Missional Church”

Some reviews to look for in the Winter 2011 issue:

Wolfgang Vondey reviews the book by Brad Harper and Paul Louis Metzger, Exploring Ecclesiology: An Evangelical and Ecumenical Introduction (Brazos, 2009).

The second edition of James D.G. Dunn’s The Living Word (Fortress, 2009) is reviewed by John R. Miller.

Tony Richie reviews Cindy Jacobs’s book, The Reformation Manifesto: Your Part in God’s Plan to Change the Nations Today (Bethany House, 2008).

Woodrow Walton reviews Marvin Olasky’s The Tragedy of American Compassion (Crossway Books, 2008).