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Nigel Paul Willis, The Pentecostal Movement, its Challenges and Potential, International Theology 17 (Frankfurt, GER: Peter Lang, 2013). 202 pp. $ 55.95 hardcover.In this book version of his doctoral dissertation at the University of Heidelberg, Nigel Willis ambitiously seeks to summarize and then synthesize the work of four U.S. scholars of Pentecostalism: historian Grant Wacker, sociologist Margaret Poloma, and theologians Frank Macchia and Amos Yong, for the purpose of relating their work to four questions he wishes to answer. Those questions are: 1) What accounts for the growth and global momentum of modern Pentecostalism? 2) What are the implications of this growth and momentum? 3) What challenges lie ahead for the movement? And, 4) what potential does the Pentecostal movement have “to contribute fruitfully to academic and theological conversations about faith in a rapidly globalizing world?” (15). Willis compares, and to a much lesser degree, contrasts the four scholars in a transdisciplinary approach, drawing on the strengths of their respective disciplines while mitigating weaknesses in their individual approaches. He sees this multidisciplinary methodology as “catalytic” and “synergistic” (16). As he surveys each scholar’s work, Willis notes the “evolution” of each scholar’s developing thought over the years, giving helpful perspective on
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Published: Jan 1, 2017
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