Strangers to Fire: When Tradition Trumps Scripture By Robert Graves
This
is an anthology of 35 essays edited by Robert W. Graves, President of
The Foundation for Pentecostal Scholarship; written by 26 authors of the
Pentecostal, Charismatic, and Third Wave movements or non-cessationists
of traditional denominations responding to John F. MacArthur's Strange
Fire or cessationism and the abuse of the charismata in general.
Foreword by J. Lee Grady.
Authors include Wayne
Grudem, Jack Deere, Craig Keener, Jon Ruthven, Sam Storms, Doug Oss,
Mel Robeck, Paul Elbert, Randy Clark, Robert Menzies, J. P. Moreland,
Gary Greig, Mark Rutland, Gary Shogren, William De Arteaga, William K.
Kay, and Melvin Hodges.
About the Author
Robert
W. Graves is the author of The Gospel according to Angels (Chosen
Books/1998) and Praying in the Spirit (Chosen Books/1987). His writings
have appeared in Moody Monthly, Christian Parenting Today, Ministries
Today, Pentecostal Evangel, Church of God Evangel and numerous other
publications. He has a master s degree in English from Georgia State
University and has taught at Georgia State University, Kennesaw State
University, and Southwestern Assemblies of God College. In 2001, he
began writing fiction.
His short stories The
Professor's Midnight Dream and Worn Carpet were the first-place winners
of the 2006 and 2010 Christian Authors Guild fiction contest. His short
story The Altar was published by Gospel Publishing House and won first
place in the 2006 2007 Fiction Writing contest of the Southern Christian
Writers Conference. His latest publications are non-fiction: Strangers
to Fire: When Tradition Trumps Scripture (2016), a 600-page anthology on
the gifts of the Holy Spirit and their continuation in the church
today, which he edited and contributed two chapters to, and The Poet as
Prophet, Wander, and Pilgrim in Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner (2015). Graves is the president and co-founder of The Foundation
for Pentecostal Scholarship, Inc.