Frank Macchia, a Pentecostal theologian and Assemblies of God minister, is the grandson of a woman who served as pastor of an Italian Pentecostal church in Gary, Indiana for nearly a quarter-century. He has written about the paradigm shifts in Pentecostal theology in an era of increasing missionary activity on a global scale. A graduate of Southern California College, he earned a master's degree in systematic theology from Wheaton College and a master of divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary. After further graduate study in philosophy at Loyola University of Chicago, he received his doctorate in theology with distinction from the University of Basel in 1989. His dissertation was awarded the Jakob Buckhardt Prize given by the university and the Johann von Goethe Foundation. Dr. Macchia joined the theology faculty of Southeastern College of the Assemblies of God in Lakeland, Florida, as an associate professor in 1992, a post he held until accepting his present position as professor of theology and director of Graduate Programs in Religion at Vanguard University in Costa Mesa, California, in 1999. He has served as associate pastor of the Christian Assembly Church in Hobart, Indiana, and pastor of the Trinity Gospel Church in Itasca, Illinois, and is currently an elder of Grace Bible Church, a Taiwanese congregation in Anaheim Hills, California. A former president of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, he serves as co-chair of the Justification/Sanctification/Ethics Study Group of the Faith and Order Commission of the U.S. National Council of Christian Churches. He has delivered invited lectures in the Philippines, Korea, and Sweden as well as in the United States. Dr. Macchia is senior editor of Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies and an associate editor of the Journal of Pentecostal Theology. The author of some twenty-five articles published in scholarly journals and essays in volumes of collected works, he is the author of Spirituality and Social Liberation: The Message of the Blumhardts in the Light of Wuerttemberg Pietism (Scarecrow Press, 1993). He is currently finishing a book for Zondervan entitled Pentecostal Theology in the Making: Global Trends in Ecumenical Context and a manuscript on Trinitarian soteriology.