Books

Books for the General Christian Market

Co-edited with Van Johnson and David Wells, Essential Truths: The PAOC Statement of Essential Truths Commentary. Mississauga, ON: The Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada, 2023.

-While not an academic book, Dr. Jonathan Black wrote in the Journal of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity, “This is probably the most significant Pentecostal theological publication to come from North America in quite some time.” Each chapter in the commentary explains a section the PAOC’s new (May 2022) Statement of Essential Truths.

Simply Spirit-Filled: Experiencing God in the Presence and Power of the Holy Spirit. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2019.

-This book is written for pastors and lay people, and I’m sure it will be beneficial for undergraduate students as well. Read more about it here.

Academic Books

Co-edited with Frank Macchia and Terry Cross, Karl Barth and Pentecostal Theology: A Convergence of the Word and the Spirit. Systematic Pentecostal and Charismatic Theology Series. London: T & T Clark, forthcoming in 2024 (it’s finally in production!).

Barth’s Doctrine of Creation: Creation, Nature, Jesus, and the Trinity. Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2014.

-You can preview the book on Googlebooks.
–Click here for the e-book, and if you prefer the hard copy, see here.

Co-authored with Stanley E. Porter. Johannine Writings and Apocalyptic: An Annotated Bibliography. Johannine Studies Series, 1. Leiden: Brill, 2013.

-You can view much of the contents here on Googlebooks.

The Lord is the Spirit: The Holy Spirit and the Divine Attributes. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2011. (Republished in the UK by James Clark and Co., 2012.)

-You can preview the book on Googlebooks.
–Click here for the e-book, and if you prefer the hard copy, see here.

See also my Current Research

Select Published Articles

• “Pentecostals and the Doctrine of the Trinity,” Enrich Magazine (Fall 2021), 30-32 (full article available here).
• “Charismatic Perspectives on the Holy Spirit,” T & T Clark Handbook of Pneumatology, edited by Daniel Castelo and Kenneth M. Loyer (London: T & T Clark, 2020), 259-265 (available online here).
• “Pneumatology: Eschatological Intensification of the Personal Presence of God,” The Routledge Handbook of Pentecostal Theology, edited by Wolfgang Vondey (London: Routledge, 2020), 206-215.
• “The Spirit of Power and Love: Edwards and Pentecostals on Constructive Pneumatology,” in Pentecostals and the Theology of Jonathan Edwards, edited by Amos Yong and Steven M. Studebaker (Systematic Pentecostal and Charismatic Theology series; London: T & T Clark, 2019), 115-126 (available online here).
• “Findings from a Longitudinal Study of Clergy Belief and Practice in Canada’s Largest Pentecostal Denomination,” with Adam Stewart and Kevin Shanahan. Pneuma: The Journal of the Society of Pentecostal Studies. 39 (2017): 457-481 (full article available here).
• “Changing Conceptions of Speaking in Tongues and Spirit Baptism Among Canadian Pentecostal Clergy,” with Adam Stewart and Kevin Shanahan. Canadian Journal of Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity 7 (2016): 1-24 (full article available here).
• “The PAOC’s Statement of Fundamental and Essential Truths: Looking to the Past and the Future.” Enrich: The Leadership Magazine of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada (Spring 2017): 14-17 (full article available here).
• “Pneumatological Insights for the Attributes of the Divine Loving,” in Third Article Theology: A Pneumatological Dogmatics, edited by Myk Habets (Minneapolis: Fortress Academic, 2016), 39-54 (full essay available here).
• “The Holy Spirit and Eschatology—with Implications for Ministry and the Doctrine of Spirit Baptism.”Journal of Pentecostal Theology 25.2 (2016), 203-221.
• “Theology is a Waste of Time,” in Nexus: Where Theology and Mission Meet. edited by David Wells and Van Johnson (Mississauga, ON: Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada, 2015), 2-8.
• “Missional Vitality and the Future of the PAOC,” co-authored with Adam Stewart, Enrich: The Leadership Magazine of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada (Fall 2015), 22-25 (full article available here).
• “Spiritual Vitality Among PAOC Credential Holders,” co-authored with Adam Stewart, Enrich: The Leadership Magazine of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada (Summer 2015), 26-29 (full article available here).
• “Theological Vitality in the PAOC Today,” co-authored with Adam Stewart, Enrich: The Leadership Magazine of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada (Spring 2015), 12-15 (full article available here).
• “The Spirit and the Doctrine of God: On Gendered Language, Violence, and the Trinity and Philosophy.” Canadian Journal of Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity. 5.1 (2014), 81-87 (full article available here).
• “Imitating a Generous God,” in Generosity Changes Everything…Even Us: Perspectives from a Benevolent Fellowship, edited by David Hazzard (Mississauga, ON: Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada, 2014), 23-31.
• “The Intensity of the Spirit in a Spirit-Filled World: Spirit Baptism, Subsequence, and the Spirit of Creation.” Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 34.3 (2012): 365-382 (full article available here).
• “Neo-Pentecostalism” and “Durham, William H.,” in Handbook of Pentecostal Christianity, ed. Adam Stewart. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2012.
• “Pentecostals and Divine Impassibility: A Response to Daniel Castelo,” in the Journal of Pentecostal Theology 20.1 (2011): 184-190 (full article available here).
• “Searching for the Spirit in Creation: The Contrasting Pneumatologies of Gary Badcock and Denis Edwards.” Didaskalia 22 (fall 2011): 19-38.
• “Review Essay of Frank Macchia’s Baptized in the Holy Spirit,” in Canadian Journal of Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity 1 (2010): 116-130 (full article available here).
• “Beyond Anthropocentrism in Barth’s Doctrine of Creation: Searching for a Theology of Nature,” in Religious Studies and Theology 28.2 (2009).
• “Contemporary Images for Communicating the Atonement and Redemption: Liberator and Lover,” in McMaster Journal of Theology and Ministry 10 (2009) (full article available here).
• “This Spirit is God: A Pentecostal Perspective on the Doctrine of the Divine Attributes” in Defining Issues in Pentecostalism: Classical and Emergent, edited by Steven M. Studebaker (Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2008), 69-98.
• “Beyond the Cross: Moltmann’s Crucified God, Rahner’s Rule, and Implications for the Doctrine of God.” Didaskalia 19 (2008): 93-111.
• “Pneumatological Perspectives for a Theology of Nature: The Holy Spirit in Relation to Ecology and Technology,” in Journal of Pentecostal Theology 15.2 (2007).
• “Pauline Pneumatology and Trinitarian Presuppositions,” in Paul and His Theology, edited by Stanley E. Porter. (Pauline Studies 3; Leiden: Brill, 2006), 347-362.
• “A Trinitarian Doctrine of Creation? Considering Barth as a Guide,” in McMaster Journal of Theology and Ministry 6 (2005): 36-48 (full article available here).