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Book Reviews / Pneuma 31 (2009) 291-329 323 Paul Schmidgall, Hundert Jahre Deutsche Pfingstbewegung: 1907-2007 [One Hundred Years of the German Pentecostal Movement: 1907 - 2007] (Nordhausen, Germany: Traugott Bautz, 2008). 548 pp., €60.00. It may come as a surprise to the North American reader acquainted with the history of Classical Pentecostalism that a German publication claims the first centennial of the Pente- costal movement in Germany. Even more surprising may this claim be to the German audience, where Pentecostalism is still relatively unknown in most parts of the country. Paul Schmidgall, however, is no stranger to the Pentecostal scene. Overseer of the Church of God in Germany since 1994 and director of the European Theological Seminary, Schmidgall published a similar work on the occasion of the ninetieth anniversary of Pente- costalism in Germany ( 90 Jahre Deutsche Pfingstbewegung [Ninety Years of the German Pentecostal Movement], Leuchter-Verlag eG, 1997). The new edition, however, is much more than a simple update of an additional decade of events. Somewhere along the line, Schmidgall has rethought his approach to the presentation of Pentecostal history. The result is a detailed study of Pentecostalism that embraces the movement in its global and diverse
Pneuma – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2009
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