Jody Fleming’s Wesleyan Pneumatology, Pentecostal Mission and the Missio Dei:
Renewing the Spark is a passionate plea for North American Wesleyan churches to become more attuned to the Pentecostal/Charismatic dimensions of global missions. Based in part on her own experiences in Venezuela, this book is a refreshing blend of personal insight and scholarly analysis.
— Douglas Jacobsen, author of Global Gospel: An Introduction to Christianity on Five Continents
Historian David Hempton, in Methodism: Empire of the Spirit, remarked that Pentecostalism carries the impulse to continue the energy and mobility of early Methodism’s global expansion. Does this mean Wesleyans will be left out of this missional endeavor? Jody Fleming’s book suggests a way forward, embracing both traditional Wesleyan identity and a renewed Pentecostal power in missional engagement. Providing a helpful survey of intercultural and theological concepts around the work of the Holy Spirit in Latin contexts, Fleming offers a needed dialog around a pneumatology of holiness and witness; one to spark renewed effort across Wesleyan and Pentecostal traditions.
— Dean G. Blevins, Professor of Practical Theology and Christian Discipleship at Nazarene Theological Seminary
The best phrase to summarize Jody Fleming’s work is ‘comprehensively inspiring.’
Meticulously studied, the volume will allow novices in the area of Wesleyan and Pentecostal/charismatic pneumatology to comprehend the subject with intelligence, and with contextual relevance to Latin America and their own cross-cultural ministry context.
— Robert L. Gallagher, Professor Emeritus of Intercultural Studies, School of Mission, Ministry, & Leadership, Wheaton College Graduate School