Acknowledgments

I am grateful to Professor Virginia (Toddy) Holeman from the School of Counseling at Asbury Theological Seminary for her insights on the relevant portions of this manuscript. I am grateful to my editors at Baker Academic, Jim Kinney, James Ernest (formerly at Baker), Tim West, and Amy Donaldson. I am also grateful to the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary for welcoming me as the Horton lecturer and providing dialogue on the subject of this book on February 3–5, 2015, and to New Theological College, Dehradun, India, to Urshan Graduate School of Theology, and to Southern Adventist University for interacting with my lectures on this topic in January and March 2016.