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Book Review: The Price of Truth: Gift, Money, and Philosophy

by the comparison with the New Testament record: “The spiritual enablement required to achieve apostolic success long challenged the missionary community. Hence, the discontinuity between first-century and nineteenth-century mission dynamics drew considerable attention in mission circles” (13). Illustrating his points with hundreds of cases from different parts of the world the book has 1700 footnotes that fill 92 pages McGee shows that towards the end of the 19th century “an increasing number of Christians fiom Puritans to Pietists, Moravians and Methodistshad begun to view the time in which they lived as an epoch in which the Holy Spirit would play the lead part in the final act of the drama of redemption, however long that may take” (24-25). But he also describes the tremendous fear of “excess” that, in some cases, was prompted by descriptions of revivals in the mission fields, where the new believers in the majority world were more open to the extraordinary. He quotes Amy Carmichael at the Dohnavur Mission in South India: “God save us lest we civilize the Holy Spirit out of our churches. There is more to fear from stagnation than excitement where the things of God are concerned” (33). The second section of the book, “Apostolic Power and Missions,” focuses on the rise and development of the Pentecostal movement in the United States during the 20th century, and its interaction with Protestants, especially Evangelicals and Catholics, in relation with the missionary enterprise. McGee deals extensively with glossolalia and charismatic gifts and concludes, “When the failure of tongues as a missio-linguistic tool became apparent, Pentecostals consequently retained their confidence in praying in tongues as the source of missional power” (102). He records the success of Pentecostal missions establishing indigenous churches and developing a consistent missiology. He concludes that the Pentecostal movement became institutionalized to the degree that “By the close of the century and regardless of the glowing statistics, North American Pentecostalism faced an unprecedented crisis of identity. In spirituality, worship and practice, many churches could not be distinguished from evangelical churches, apart from the posting on the front side. . . .The once-commanding factor in pressing the urgency of missions-intense eschatological expectation-had peaked with the faithhl now endeavoring to transform their culture with Christian values and denominational executives busily planning for the future” (206). However, he also concludes, “Today miracles play a greater role in the lives of Christiansparticularly in the majority world-and in their witness to the faith than they have at any other time since the ancient church” (223). McGee makes a convincing case in his book through a well-documented argument written in an excellent narrative style.