Find these articles individually in an easy-to-read format on the archive page: Summer 2012

Some reviews to look for in the Fall 2012 issue:

Professor Malcolm Brubaker reviews Gary Tyra, The Holy Spirit in Mission: Prophetic Speech and Action in Christian Witness (InterVarsity Press, 2011).

The collection of essays of Afro-Pentecostalism: Black Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity in History and Culture (New York University Press, 2011), edited by Amos Yong and Estrelda Alexander, are reviewed by Wolfgang Vondey.

Reviewed by the Editors.

Tim Stafford, “Miracles in Mozambique: How Mama Heidi Reaches the Abandoned” Christianity Today (May 2012), pages 18-26.

The tag line for the article offers an excellent summary: “There are credible reports that Heidi Baker heals the deaf and raises the dead. One thing is for sure: She loves the poor like no other in this forgotten corner of the planet.”

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See also: http://morect.com/heidi

“It’s Okay to Expect a Miracle: Scholar Craig Keener rediscovers the reality of divine intervention” Christianity Today (December 2011), pages 34-37.

This interview by Tim Stafford may be read here:

http://christianitytoday.com/ct/2011/december/okay-to-expect-miracle.html

Rusty Wright, “Tiananmen Leader’s Divine Cause” (May 1, 2012).

Benjamin Wiker, “Are We Born Believers?” ToTheSource (May 2, 2012).

Cognitive scientist Justin Barrett argues that belief in God/gods is natural.

Historian Paul King invites us to look at the “Hermeneutics in Modern and Classic Faith Movements” in an excerpt from his book, Only Believe.

Craig S. Keener speaks with us about his new book, Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts.

Some reviews to look for in the Summer 2012 issue:

Amos Yong reviews Karl W. Giberson and Francis S. Collins, The Language of Science and Faith from InterVarsity Press.

Tony Richie reviews the third edition of William Lane Craig’s Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics (Crossway).

Southeastern University professor Robert Crosby says that there is an awakening for social concern and whole life transformation among today’s Pentecostals.

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John F. Carter, “Power and Authority in Pentecostal Leadership,” Asian Journal of Pentecostal Studies 12:2 (July 2009), pages 185-207.

How influence is exercised by the leader can have many faces. Carter reminds us that as Christians, we have an obligation to derive and express our power in biblical ways.

Cecil M. Robeck, “Montanism and Present Day ‘Prophets,’” Pneuma 32:3 (2010), pages 413-429.

Montanism was a prophetic movement that arose in the late second century, calling the church of their day back to the spontaneity of the Spirit. But the movement was eventually condemned as heretical and imperial edict called for the destruction of all Montanist documents. How heretical was the movement? What have scholars learned about potential connections to today’s charismatic movements?

J. Todd Billings, “How to Read the Bible: New strategies for interpreting Scripture turn out to be not so new—and deepen our life in Christ,” Christianity Today (October 2011), pages 24-30.

The cover article of the October 2011 issue of Christianity Today offers a brief introduction to Theological Interpretation of Scripture from a Reformed perspective, inviting all believers to read the Bible with confidence and humility.

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The 41st meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies was held at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia, from February 29 to March 3, 2012. The theme of the convention was “Pentecostalisms, Peacemaking, and Social Justice/Righteousness.”

As a doctoral student, I found the 2012 Society for Pentecostal Studies conference to be nothing less than exceptional. Previously, my academic conference experience has been limited to the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature meetings. I was intrigued by the inclusion of clergy within a more academically recognized conference. I had the opportunity to present a paper critiquing the precedent analysis of women in the Church of God in Christ by former president Anthea Butler. The majority of session participants were men who readily engaged in further conversation on the paradox of power within the women’s department of the Church of God in Christ raised within my presentation.

Regent University

I attended the meeting with a little knee injury that prevented me from attending some of the morning sessions. But the networking at an SPS event is invaluable. The level of scholarship amidst the conference attendees is comparable to any academic conference in the world. The conference was not without a myriad of valuable representations from publishers, archivists, universities, and software technology for today’s scholar.

For more information about past meetings of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, visit www.sps-usa.org.

The second part of “The Third Wave” from Henry I. Lederle’s latest book, Theology with Spirit: The Future of the Pentecostal & Charismatic Movements in the Twenty-first Century.

Some reviews to look for in the Spring 2012 issue:

Tony Richie reviews Alister McGrath’s book, The Passionate Intellect: Christian Faith and the Discipleship of the Mind from IVP (2010).

John Lathrop reviews the last book written by Evangelical leader John Stott, The Radical Disciple: Some Neglected Aspects of Our Calling (InterVarsity, 2010).

Woodrow Walton reviews Trajectories in the Book of Acts: Essays in Honor of John Wesley Wyckoff from Wipf & Stock Publishers (2010), edited by Paul Alexander, Jordan Daniel May, and Robert G. Reid.

Andrew Gabriel looks at the latest edition of Across the Spectrum: Understanding Issues in Evangelical Theology (Baker Academic, 2009) by Gregory A. Boyd and Paul Rhodes Eddy.

Churchmorph: how megatrends are reshaping Christian Communities (Baker Academic, 2009) by Eddie Gibbs is reviewed by Jim Purves.

John Lathrop continues our conversation about church leadership with his article, “Principles of Church Leadership.”

Coming highly recommended from The Pneuma Review editorial committee, a chapter from Henry I. Lederle’s latest book, Theology with Spirit: The Future of the Pentecostal & Charismatic Movements in the Twenty-first Century. “The Third Wave: New Independent Charismatic Churches,” Part 1.

Some reviews to look for in the Winter 2012 issue:

Amos Yong reviews the four volume set by George M. Flattery, A Biblical Theology of the Holy Spirit (Global University, 2009).

Lynn H. Cohick, Women in the World of the Earliest Christians: Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life (Baker Academic, 2009) is reviewed by John Miller.

Tony Richie reviews an important book from the Regnum Edinburgh 2010 Series, Holistic Mission: God’s Plan for God’s People, edited by Brian Woolnough and Wonsuk Ma.