摘要：One of the mo st provocative issues that has affected Christendo mconsequential to the emergence of the Pentecostal-Charismaticmovement in the twentieth century is that of speaking in tongues, eitheras an accompanying phenomenon to or the evidence of being "baptizedin the Holy Spirit." A century after the first report of glossolalia, theissue remains a watershed, resulting in Pentecostal apologia for thephenomenon and Evangelical polemic against its theological validity.This monograph is a "revised, updated reprint"of an article publishedin the 1983-84 issue of Christian Forum, a publication of the PhilippineMissionary Institute. Written from the perspective of an Evangelical whois also sympathetic to Charismatics (the term Lim uses to refer toClassical Pentecostals and all Neo-Pentecostals as a whole), themonograph is delightfully irenic in tone and spirit. Thus he advised non-Charismatics that though he remains Evangelical in his viewpoint (cf. p.31), his "study will disappoint those who expect a harsh critique of theCharismatics" (p. 33).
