What is pentecostal preaching? Is it uniquely identifiable? Is it just a spicy flavour of the evangelical kerygmatic tradition? In Toward a Pentecostal Theology of Preaching, editor Lee Roy Martin explores this question with a collection fourteen perspectives on pentecostal preaching by pentecostal theologians.

Editor Lee Roy Martin’s submission to this collection is a highlight: “Fire in the Bones: Pentecostal Prophetic Preaching.” He argues:

[E]ven though preaching and prophecy overlap at certain points, not all prophecy is preaching, and not all preaching is prophecy. The purpose of this chapter is to examine those places where prophecy and preaching overlap and to develop from those intersections a theology of Pentecostal prophetic preaching. (44)

In the end, pentecostal prophetic preaching is an inspired message, a message “given for a specific time and place, a word from the Lord” (51).

Other highlights include Chris E. W. Green’s inspiring argument that “God uses preaching to save us” (64), Daniella C. Augustine’s uniquely Orthodox perspective in “From Proclamation to Embodiment” (82–110) and Joseph K. Byrd’s fruitful attempt to articulate a Pentecostal Homiletic (271–88).

Although Toward a Pentecostal Theology of Preaching is a scholarly work, it can (and should) be read by thoughtful pentecostal pastors to inspire new avenues in their preaching ministry.

Martin, Lee Roy, ed. Toward a Pentecostal Theology of Preaching. CPT Press, 2015.