Pentecost — Today? examines what the Bible teaches about revival and tests the competing accounts against it. Iain H. Murray argues from Acts and the epistles that Pentecost was unrepeatable in its character as the inauguration of the Spirit's new covenant ministry, while maintaining that God continues to grant seasons of unusual awakening. He examines the history of such seasons, the means God has used, and the errors that arise when revival is treated as something men can manufacture.

This is a measured treatment of a subject usually handled either with excessive enthusiasm or with cold suspicion. It suits pastors praying for their congregations, readers interested in the history of awakenings, and anyone trying to think clearly about the difference between revival and revivalism. Murray writes as a historian as well as a theologian.