234 book reviews Thomas Jay Oord 2015.The Uncontrolling Love of God: An Open and Relational Account of Providence. Downers Grove,il:ivpAcademic. In his latest book,The…

PNEUMA 37 (2015) 313–316 Pentecostalism, Cultural Analysis, and the Hermeneutics of Culture The cultural linguistic turn in the humanities and social sciences has brought…

“Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things” (2 Timothy 2:7). Science was, at one time, a highly respected profession. Today, it seems that the fine line between beneficial science and science fiction has faded. I was appal…

Replacement theology has a huge following; roughly one billion people around the world subscribe to this unbiblical doctrine – one-tenth of this number are Americans. It is all about a brand of Christianity minus the mention of Israel and Jewry in thei…

book reviews 385 Stephen Shapiro and Philip Barnard Pentecostal Modernism: Lovecraft, Los Angeles, and World-Systems Culture(London, uk: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017). 184pp. $85.36 hardcover. Pentecostal…

Psalm 40:12 (KJV) ” For innumerable evils have compassed me about:
mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to
look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my
heart faileth me.”

Is it possi…

I have read Robbins and Witheringtons different understanding of socio-rhetorical criticism and have better understood Ben Witherington III’s method:

“socio-rhetorical criticism” is the study of ancient social history with a particular em…