It is an interesting read (I read it on Kindle). The author has found (all??) charismatic expressions and manifestations throughout the history of the church in the West. But it must be said that it lacks the academic rigor I hoped for. I would not qualify this book as an academic book. All charismatic expressions were good enough to proof that the church has always been charismatic, no matter what group or who experienced something. So if you are looking for any charismatic expressions in the Western church, you'll find in this book references that you then can explore and check. If you are looking for a critical analyses of the manifestations, you'll have to look elsewhere. There is hardly if any dialogue with other historical sources to corroborate what took place. This book chases the charismatic phenomena throughout history without a critical and theological evaluation. It is almost as if the phenomena itself is good enough theological proof of the manifestation. Non charismatics will not be convinced by the content, especially by the examples of the last 150 years, because of questionable characters (like Kenneth Hagin) and all the power struggles and divisions... Some will look at the fruit and judge the tree.

I've been using the LHI for a long time now. And I have read through it entirely. It is good but not great. I understand that there are several technical challenges to create this kind of a ressource. The "literal" translation goes from left to right, as it should in English, but the separation is not always clear. Sometime there is a dot. The inconsistency creates sometimes confusion. But if one stops and analyses the text, one can always figure it out if you know Hebrew. So this is not the end of the world. As the for the literal translation, well, that is always a subject of debate. It is a some what literal translation. As they would say, it is a contextual literal translation. This mean that it would actually be better if it were a literal translation, where the reader/user has to take the responsibility to make the choices instead of the corrections. Also I haven't been able to find a way to signal grammatical errors of the translation. Not that there are many, but there some. It would be nice if there were alternative literal translation. In spite of some of my miss givings, it is a useful ressource.