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Martin W. Mittelstadt and Geoffrey W. Sutton, eds., Forgiveness, Reconciliation, and Restoration: Multidisciplinary Studies from a Pentecostal Perspective (Eugene, Ore.: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2010). xxii + 244 pp. $29.99 paper.

Martin W. Mittelstadt and Geoffrey W. Sutton, eds., Forgiveness, Reconciliation, and Restoration:... In Forgiveness, Reconciliation, and Restoration , Pentecostal scholars critically examine the interactions between Pentecostal theology and practice in relationship to the larger world. Each essayist challenges Pentecostals to move beyond their preferred vertical experience of forgiveness, reconciliation, and restoration with God through emotion, deliverance, and personal testimony, in order to embrace a horizontal relationship with humanity. Martin Mittelstadt, a New Testament bible scholar, opens chapter 1 with a theological interpretation of Luke’s gospel as a “Spirit-led proclamation of the gospel as reconciliation” (4). His interpretation challenges the current “overly individualistic” practice of Pentecostalism, and further questions the relevancy of Spirit-inspired speech, which can be a “limiting reflection of the core doctrines and values of the community” (21). Mittelstadt concludes that an authentic Pentecostal life and witness is not limited to idolizing past revelations, but involves pursuit of fresh revelation as agents of reconciliation. Complementing Mittelstadt, Robert Berg (chapter 2) and Marilyn Quigley and Diane Awbrey (both in chapter 3) interpret Pentecostal concepts of forgiveness in a literary context. Berg interweaves themes from the best seller The Shack with the Pentecostal interpretation of the Trinity as the model for human forgiveness and relationship. Quigley and Awbrey go a step http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Pneuma Brill

Martin W. Mittelstadt and Geoffrey W. Sutton, eds., Forgiveness, Reconciliation, and Restoration: Multidisciplinary Studies from a Pentecostal Perspective (Eugene, Ore.: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2010). xxii + 244 pp. $29.99 paper.

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Pneuma , Volume 33 (3): 447 – Jan 1, 2011
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In Forgiveness, Reconciliation, and Restoration , Pentecostal scholars critically examine the interactions between Pentecostal theology and practice in relationship to the larger world. Each essayist challenges Pentecostals to move beyond their preferred vertical experience of forgiveness, reconciliation, and restoration with God through emotion, deliverance, and personal testimony, in order to embrace a horizontal relationship with humanity. Martin Mittelstadt, a New Testament bible scholar, opens chapter 1 with a theological interpretation of Luke’s gospel as a “Spirit-led proclamation of the gospel as reconciliation” (4). His interpretation challenges the current “overly individualistic” practice of Pentecostalism, and further questions the relevancy of Spirit-inspired speech, which can be a “limiting reflection of the core doctrines and values of the community” (21). Mittelstadt concludes that an authentic Pentecostal life and witness is not limited to idolizing past revelations, but involves pursuit of fresh revelation as agents of reconciliation. Complementing Mittelstadt, Robert Berg (chapter 2) and Marilyn Quigley and Diane Awbrey (both in chapter 3) interpret Pentecostal concepts of forgiveness in a literary context. Berg interweaves themes from the best seller The Shack with the Pentecostal interpretation of the Trinity as the model for human forgiveness and relationship. Quigley and Awbrey go a step

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