Children of the Calling

This volume of essays dedicated to Stan and Ruth Burgess has been written by their colleagues and students to honor them as they retire after many years of distinguished service to Evangel University Southwest Missouri State University and Regent University. Several meanings can be subsumed under the title Children of the Calling. Stan and Ruth grew up in India children of Pentecostal missionaries who felt they had divine callings. They were influenced not only by the religious callings of their parents but also by the cultural milieu of India. Though they did not personally take on board the specific missionary calling of their parents they charted life maps that benefitted from the cross-cultural proficiencies developed in their childhoods in India which to a large extent colored the influence they would have on their children academic colleagues and students some of whom have submitted essays for this Festschrift. The diversity of subjects in this volume attests to the breadth of the scholarly work of Stan and Ruth Burgess. The first section narrates the major highlights of Stan and Ruth's academic biographies the second presents pioneering studies of biblical studies and church history and the third offers application-based research and personal reminiscences. This Festschrift honoring Stan and Ruth Burgess reveals the breadth and depth of cultural and scholarly life that the Burgesses have experienced. Here is a celebration of an adventure with two people who have called villages in India their home knelt at the altars of Pentecostal revival felt at ease in the halls of academia and been refreshed by the richness of ecumenical conversations. --Byron D. Klaus President Assemblies of God Theological Seminary Evangel University Springfield MO This book combines many of the best features of biography and Festschrift. The lives of Stanley and Ruth Burgess are recounted celebrated and then illuminated by the essays of distinguished scholars. This is a rich and rewarding read! --William K. Kay Professor of Theology Glynd r University Plas Coch Campus Wrexham Wales This collection of studies makes an immediate appeal for two important reasons: the honorees rarely combine a life of common calling and two academic disciplines that can be at odds with each other. The studies in the volume brilliantly showcase the work of the spirit in critical domains of our life church life and human development. This is an excellent reading to convince that the spirit is the life-giver thus he concerns every aspect of our life including faith and mental development. --Wonsuk Ma Executive Director Oxford Centre for Mission Studies St. Philip and St. James Church Oxford UK Dr. Eric Nelson Newberg is Associate Professor of Theological and Historical Studies at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa Oklahoma. He also serves as an adjunct professor for Regent University School of Divinity. He is the author of The Pentecostal Mission in Palestine: The Legacy of Pentecostal Zionism (2012) and assorted journal articles. Dr. Newberg is an ordained minister of the Evangelical Covenant Church. Dr. Lois E. Olena is Associate Professor of Practical Theology and Jewish Studies at the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary and serves as Executive Director of the Society for Pentecostal Studies. An ordained AG minister she is author of Stanley M. Horton: Shaper of Pentecostal Theology (2009) has contributed to Forgiveness Reconciliation and Restoration (2010) and But These Are Written (2014) and has authored numerous articles and reviews.