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Jon Ruthven

Jon M. Ruthven, Ph.D., passed away April 11, 2022. He spent his entire adult life in ministry, starting with David Wilkerson in Boston and New York City in the mid-60s. After spending a dozen years pastoring, a couple a years as a missionary in Africa as President and Dean of Pan Africa Christian College in Nairobi, Kenya, he ended up teaching theology in seminary for 18 years. Always interested in training and discipleship, Jon sought to develop a radically biblical approach to ministry training that seeks to replicate the discipling mission of Jesus in both content and method. Jon wrote numerous scholarly papers and books including On the Cessation of the Charismata: The Protestant Polemic on Postbiblical Miracles (1993 and 2009) and What’s Wrong with Protestant Theology? Tradition vs. Biblical Emphasis (2013). He emphasized the biblical grounding for a practical ministry of healing, signs and wonders in the power of the Spirit. Facebook.

Recent Posts

Jonathan Seiver: The Palace, reviewed by Jon Ruthven

William De Arteaga: Agnes Sanford and Her Companions, reviewed by Jon Ruthven

What is Salvation?

Jon Ruthven’s Further reflections on Strangers to Fire, a response to John MacArthur

Del Tarr: The Foolishness of God

Jonathan Seiver: The Palace, reviewed by Jon Ruthven

by Jon Ruthven April 11, 2016 0

Jonathan Seiver, The Palace: A Prophetic Journey through the Cultures of This Age and the Kingdom of the Age to Come (Charleston, SC: SP, 2015), 146 pages, ISBN... Read more.

Church History, Fall 2015

William De Arteaga: Agnes Sanford and Her Companions, reviewed by Jon Ruthven

by Jon Ruthven December 14, 2015 0

William L. De Arteaga, Agnes Sanford and Her Companions: The Assault on Cessationism and the Coming of the Charismatic Renewal (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2015),... Read more.

In Depth, Summer 2015

What is Salvation?

by Jon Ruthven September 9, 2015 0

What does the Bible mean when it talks about salvation? Scholar Jon Ruthven shares some “hasty, preliminary notes” as he works through this important question... Read more.

Spirit, Winter 2015

Jon Ruthven’s Further reflections on Strangers to Fire, a response to John MacArthur

by Jon Ruthven February 18, 2015 0

Strangers to Fire represents a phalanx of biblical responses by a variety of authors to the cessationism first developed by the serpent in the Garden: “Did... Read more.

Spirit, Spring 2014

Del Tarr: The Foolishness of God

by Jon Ruthven May 21, 2014 0

Del Tarr, The Foolishness of God: A Linguist Looks at the Mystery of Tongues (Springfield, MO: The Access Group, 2010), xvii +447 pages, ISBN 9780984447008.... Read more.

Pneuma Review, Spirit, Winter 2014

John MacArthur’s Strange Fire, A Brief Biblical Response by Jon Ruthven

by Jon Ruthven November 1, 2013 19

John MacArthur, Strange Fire: The Danger of Offending the Holy Spirit with Counterfeit Worship (Nashville, TN: Nelson Books, 2013), 333 pages, ISBN 9781400206414.... Read more.

Biblical Studies, Pneuma Review, Winter 2002

Upon This Foundation: Ephesians 2:20 and the Gift of Prophecy, by Jon M. Ruthven

by Jon Ruthven March 20, 2002 0

Introduction Cessationists,1 those who argue that certain gifts of the Spirit have ceased, are increasingly using an argument-from-analogy from Paul’s epistle... Read more.

Pneuma Review, Spirit, Spring 2000

Answering the Cessationists’ Case against Continuing Spiritual Gifts

by Jon Ruthven April 4, 2000 7

In the preceding article, we left our friend, George, the novice charismatic whose excited testimony ran into a wall of biblical-sounding arguments from his pastor,... Read more.

Spirit, Winter 2000

Bible Answers about Continuing Spiritual Gifts for Your Non-Charismatic Friends

by Jon Ruthven March 25, 2000 0

George could feel his face growing red and hot. He was embarrassed—utterly stymied and tongue-tied. His excited story about his recent filling with the Spirit... Read more.

Fall 1999, Spirit

The Kingdom and the Power

by Jon Ruthven November 30, 1999 0

Gary S. Greig and Kevin N. Springer, eds., The Kingdom and the Power: Are Healing and Spiritual Gifts Used by Jesus and the Early Church Meant for the Church Today?... Read more.