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  1. A Century in the Making: Receiving the Samaritan Pentecost (Acts 8:4–25) in the Pentecostal and Charismatic Traditions

    Article • Pneuma, June 2021, Brill

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  2. Jesus the Spirit Baptizer: Christology in Light of Pentecost, by Frank D. Macchia

    Article • Pneuma, December 2019, Brill

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  3. Crippled Grace: Disability, Virtue Ethics, and the Good Life, by Shane Clifton

    Article • Pneuma, December 2018, Brill

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  4. Receiving Luke-Acts

    Article • Pneuma, October 2018, Brill

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  5. Craig S. Keener’s Acts: An Exegetical Commentary Encyclopedia in Four Volumes

    Article • Pneuma, January 2016, Brill

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  6. Salvation with a Smile: Joel Osteen, Lakewood Church, and American Christianity, written by Phillip Luke Sinitiere

    Article • Pneuma, January 2016, Brill

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  7. The Gospel in the Marketplace of Ideas: Paul's Mars Hill Experience for Our Pluralistic World. By Paul Copan and Kenneth D. Litwak. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2014. Pp. 197. Paper, $18.00.

    Article • Religious Studies Review, June 2015, Wiley

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  8. The Nonviolent Life. By John Dear. Long Beach, CA: Pace e Bene Press, 2013. Pp. xiv + 150. $15.95.

    Article • Religious Studies Review, March 2015, Wiley

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  9. The Holy Spirit and the Christian Life: Historical, Interdisciplinary, and Renewal Perspectives. Edited by WolfgangVondey. Christianity and Renewal-Interdisciplinary Studies. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. vi + 240. $95.00.

    Article • Religious Studies Review, March 2015, Wiley

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  10. Book Review: Pentecostal and Holiness Statements on War and Peace, edited by Jay Beaman and Brian K. Pipkin,

    Article • Pneuma, January 2015, Brill

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  11. Christian Political Witness. Edited by GeorgeKalantzis and Gregory W.Lee. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2014. Pp. 239. Paper, $26.00.

    Article • Religious Studies Review, December 2014, Wiley

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  12. Reading a Different Story: A Christian Scholar's Journey from America to Africa. By Susan VanZanten. Turning South: Christian Scholars in an Age of World Christianity, 2. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2013. Pp. x + 134. Paper, $19.99.

    Article • Religious Studies Review, December 2014, Wiley

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  13. Christianity and Culture in the City: A Postcolonial Approach. Edited by SamuelCruz. New York: Lexington Books, 2013. Pp. xi + 181. $65.00.

    Article • Religious Studies Review, February 2014, Wiley

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  14. Soundings in Cultural Criticism: Perspectives and Methods in Culture, Power and Identity in the New Testament. Edited by FranciscoLozada, Jr. and GregCarey. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2013. Pp. xvi + 231. $49.00.

    Article • Religious Studies Review, February 2014, Wiley

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  15. Richard Horsley The Prophet Jesus and the Renewal of Israel: Moving Beyond a Diversionary Debate. (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2012). vi+167 pp. $20.00 paper.

    Article • Pneuma, January 2014, Brill

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  16. The Political Aims of Jesus. By Douglas E. Oakman. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2012. Pp. xvi + 192. $26.00.

    Article • Religious Studies Review, December 2013, Wiley

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  17. The Heterodox Yoder. By Paul Martens. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2012. Pp. x + 166. $20.00.

    Article • Religious Studies Review, June 2013, Wiley

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  18. Sharing Possessions: What Faith Demands. By Luke Timothy Johnson. Second Edition. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2011. Pp. viii + 170. $19.00.

    Article • Religious Studies Review, June 2013, Wiley

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  19. Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes: Removing Cultural Blinders to Better Understand the Bible. By E. Randolph Richards and Brandon J. O'Brien. Downers Grove, IL: Inter Varsity Press, 2012. Pp. 240. $16.00.

    Article • Religious Studies Review, June 2013, Wiley

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  20. Hearing the Silence: Jesus on the Edge and God in the Gap-Luke 4 in Narrative Perspective. By Bruce W. Longenecker. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2012. Pp. xiv + 138. $17.00.

    Article • Religious Studies Review, June 2013, Wiley

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  21. The Activist Impulse: Essays on the Intersection of Evangelicalism and Anabaptism. Edited by Jared S.Buckholder and David C.Cramer. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2012. Pp. xvi + 427. $49.00.

    Article • Religious Studies Review, June 2013, Wiley

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  22. Onesimus Our Brother: Reading Religion, Race, and Culture in Philemon. Edited by Matthew V.Johnson, James A.Noel, and DemetriusWilliams. Paul in Critical Context Series. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2012. Pp. vii + 184. $39.00.

    Article • Religious Studies Review, June 2013, Wiley

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  23. A Faith Not Worth Fighting For: Addressing Commonly Asked Questions about Christian Nonviolence. Edited by TrippYork and Justin BronsonBarringer. The Peaceable Kingdom Series. Telford, PA: Cascadia Publishing House, 2012. Pp. xi + 243. $28.00.

    Article • Religious Studies Review, June 2013, Wiley

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  24. The Theology of Amos Yong and the New Face of Pentecostal Scholarship

    Article • January 2013, Brill

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  25. Introduction

    Article • January 2013, Brill

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  26. Reimagining Luke-Acts: Amos Yong and the Biblical Foundation of Pentecostal Theology

    Article • January 2013, Brill

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  27. David E. Garland, Luke, Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament 3 (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011). 1039 pp., $49.99, Cloth.Eckhard J. Schnabel, Acts, Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament 5 (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, ...

    Article • Pneuma, January 2013, Brill

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  28. Luke Timothy Johnson, Prophetic Jesus, Prophetic Church: The Challenge of Luke-Acts to Contemporary Christians (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2011). viii + 198 pp., $23.00 paper. Aaron J. Kuecker, The Spirit and the ‘Other’: Social Identity, Ethnicity, and I...

    Article • Pneuma, January 2013, Brill

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  29. Among the Gentiles: Greco-Roman Religion and Christianity. By Luke Timothy Johnson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. Pp. x + 461. Cloth, $32.50; paper, $22.00.

    Article • Religious Studies Review, December 2012, Wiley

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  30. The Acts of the Risen Lord Jesus: Luke's Account of God's Unfolding Plan. By Allan J. Thompson. New Studies in Biblical Theology 27. Downer's Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2011. Pp. 232. $24.00.

    Article • Religious Studies Review, December 2012, Wiley

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  31. The Politics of Yahweh: John Howard Yoder, the Old Testament and the People of God. By John C. Nugent. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2011. Pp. xiv + 251. $29.00.

    Article • Religious Studies Review, December 2012, Wiley

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  32. Third Way Allegiance: Christian Witness in the Shadow of Religious Empire. By Tripp York. Telford, PA: Cascadia, 2011. Pp. 123. $12.95.

    Article • Religious Studies Review, September 2012, Wiley

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  33. The World's Christians: Who They Are, Where They Are, and How They Got There. By Douglas Jacobsen. Malden, MA: John Wiley & Sons, 2011. Pp. xv + 399. Cloth, $94.95; paper, $39.95.

    Article • Religious Studies Review, September 2012, Wiley

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  34. Finding Pieces of the Puzzle: A Fresh Look at the Christian Story. By Ronald A. N. Kydd. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2011. Pp. xii + 272. $31.00.

    Article • Religious Studies Review, September 2012, Wiley

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  35. Come Out, My People! God's Call Out of Empire in the Bible and Beyond. By Wes Howard-Brook. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2010. Pp. xviii + 525. $30.00.

    Article • Religious Studies Review, September 2012, Wiley

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  36. The Spirit of Food: 34 Writers on Feasting and Fasting Toward God - Edited by Leslie Leyland Fields

    Article • Religious Studies Review, June 2012, Wiley

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  37. Craig S. Keener, Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts. 2 vols. (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2011). 1248 pp. $59.00 hardback.

    Article • Pneuma, January 2012, Brill

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  38. Pentecostalism in America - By Roger G. Robins

    Article • Religious Studies Review, December 2011, Wiley

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  39. Peace Be with You: Christ's Benediction Amid Violent Empires - By Sharon L. Baker and Michael Hardin

    Article • Religious Studies Review, December 2011, Wiley

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  40. Who Would Jesus Kill? War, Peace, and the Christian Tradition - By Mark J. Allman

    Article • Religious Studies Review, December 2011, Wiley

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  41. Dwelling with Philippians: A Conversation with Scripture Through Image and Word - Edited by Elizabeth Steele Halstead, Paul Detterman, Joyce Borger, and John Witvliet

    Article • Religious Studies Review, December 2011, Wiley

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  42. Shalom Church: The Body of Christ as Ministering Community - By Craig L. Nessan

    Article • Religious Studies Review, September 2011, Wiley

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  43. Taking Your Soul to Work: Overcoming the Nine Deadly Sins of the Workplace - By R. Paul Stevens and Alvin Ung

    Article • Religious Studies Review, September 2011, Wiley

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  44. Healing in the Bible: Theological Insight for Christian Ministry - By Frederick J. Gaiser

    Article • Religious Studies Review, June 2011, Wiley

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  45. Jesus in an Age of Terror: Scholarly Projects for a New American Century - By James G. Crossley

    Article • Religious Studies Review, March 2011, Wiley

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  46. Review Essay For Profit or Delight? Richard Pervo’s Contributions to Lukan Studies

    Article • Pneuma, January 2011, Brill

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  47. Trajectories in the Book of Acts: Essays in Honor of John Wesley Wyckoff

    Article • Pneuma, January 2011, Brill

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  48. Radical Ecumenicity: Pursuing Unity and Continuity after John Howard Yoder - Edited by John C. Nugent

    Article • Religious Studies Review, December 2010, Wiley

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  49. One Volume Dalit Bible Commentary: New Testament - Edited by T. K. John, SJ and James Massey

    Article • Religious Studies Review, December 2010, Wiley

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  50. Power and Practices: Engaging the Work of John Howard Yoder - Edited by Jeremy M. Bergen and Anthony G. Siegrist

    Article • Religious Studies Review, September 2010, Wiley

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  51. Paul Alexander, Peace to War: Shifting Allegiances in the Assemblies of God. The C. Henry Smith Series 9 (Telford, PA: Cascadia Publishing House, 2009). 426 pp., $26.95, paper.

    Article • Pneuma, March 2010, Brill

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  52. One World, Many Neighbors: A Christian Perspective on Worldviews – By Perry C. Cotham

    Article • Religious Studies Review, December 2009, Wiley

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  53. After Mcdonaldization: Mission, Ministry and Christian Discipleship in an Age of Uncertainty - By John Drane

    Article • Religious Studies Review, June 2009, Wiley

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  54. Living Gently in a Violent World: The Prophetic Witness of Weakness - By Stanley Hauerwas and Jean Vanier

    Article • Religious Studies Review, June 2009, Wiley

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  55. Of Widows and Meals: Communal Meals in the Book of Acts

    Article • Pneuma, October 2008, Brill

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  56. Water from a Deep Well: Christian Spirituality from Early Martyrs to Modern Missionaries - By Gerald L. Sittser

    Article • Religious Studies Review, September 2008, Wiley

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  57. Practicing the Politics of Jesus: The Origin and Significance of John Howard Yoder's Social Ethics – By Earl Zimmerman

    Article • Religious Studies Review, June 2008, Wiley

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  58. PLAIN SECRETS: AN OUTSIDER AMONG THE AMISH – By Joe Mackall

    Article • Religious Studies Review, June 2008, Wiley

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  59. Brokenness & Blessing: Toward a Biblical Spirituality – By Frances M. Young

    Article • Religious Studies Review, June 2008, Wiley

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  60. AMISH GRACE: HOW FORGIVENESS TRANSCENDED TRAGEDY – By Donald B. Kraybill, Steven M. Nolt, and David L. Weaver-Zercher

    Article • Religious Studies Review, June 2008, Wiley

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  61. Spirit and Kingdom in the Writings of Luke and Paul: An Attempt to Reconcile these Concepts by Youngmo Cho

    Article • Journal of Pentecostal Theology, January 2008, Brill

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  62. Power and Powerlessness in Pentecostal Theology A Review Essay on Amos Yong's Theology and Down Syndrome: Reimagining Disability in Late Modernity

    Article • Pneuma, January 2008, Brill

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  63. Forgiveness: A Legacy of the West Nickel Mines Amish School – By John L. Ruth

    Article • Religious Studies Review, October 2007, Wiley

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  64. Untamed Hospitality: Welcoming God and Other Strangers - By Elizabeth Newman

    Article • Religious Studies Review, September 2007, Wiley

    Martin W Mittelstadt

  65. Raging with Compassion: Pastoral Responses to the Problem of Evil – By John Swinton

    Article • Religious Studies Review, July 2007, Wiley

    Martin W Mittelstadt