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<jats:sec><jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Pentecostal theologian Amos Yong predicted that <jats:italic>Filled with the Spirit</jats:italic>, like Barth's <jats:italic>Römerbrief</jats:italic>, will fall 'like a bombshell on the playground of theologians' and 'explode in the field of those laboring on a theology of the spirit'. The range of reactions in this issue of <jats:italic>Journal of Pentecostal Theology,</jats:italic> represented by Roger Stronstad, Max Turner, and Robby Waddell, suggests that Yong's prediction is squarely on target. Levison has hit a nerve in Pentecostal pneumatology, and readers of <jats:italic>Filled with the Spirit</jats:italic> are dividing, like onlookers at Pentecost, into two camps: converts and critics. In this response, Levison addresses both camps by identifying the challenges and opportunities that <jats:italic>Filled with the Spirit</jats:italic> raises for Pentecostal and charismatic scholars, such as the need for a new definition of subsequence and the scandal of ecstasy in the New Testament. This article shows that <jats:italic>Filled with the Spirit</jats:italic> is iconoclastic and, as Yong suggests, explosive.</jats:p>
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