This volume's essays are an ecumenical ensemble of the best scholars and leading practitioners in the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements from all four corners of the world. The contributors bring together various denominational perspectives and dialogue for understanding the present momentum of these Spirit movements in the world church. Their diverse methodologies transverse the traditional and new approaches to studying these movements. Pointing the way forward, the authors highlight some of the lessons learned in their scholarly engagement with Spirit movements. These lessons offer significant insight and viewpoints for the academy in the historical analysis of these movements. They also serve as a good guide for pastoral discernment and accompaniment for God's people in their daily lives, as well as for social ministries in the world church. This volume addresses questions of salvation and eschatology, health and healing, prosperity and poverty, suffering and death, fear and faith, despair and hope. Other topics include the conflict between charism and institution and the tension between cultic clericalism and the affirmation and use of the gifts and talents of lay members of Christ's faithful in the church.

Stan Chu Ilo is a research professor at the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology at DePaul University, Chicago, where he coordinates the African Catholicism Project. He is the author of A Poor and Merciful Church: The Illuminative Ecclesiology of Pope Francis and editor of Wealth, Health, and Hope in African Christian Religion. He is the 2017 winner of the AfroGlobal Excellence Award for Global Impact.