diagnosed “the problem and the promise of Pentecostal theology today” as akin to David’s challenge with Saul’s armor (1 Sam. 17): The problem consists in the fact that the Pentecostal theologians in [the Catholic-Pentecostal] dialogue are clearly immobilized by a set of cultural and theological assumptions that render them virtually helpless before the theological task that now faces them: they, like David of old, are clothed in “Saul’s armor.” But the promise shines through this dialogue in brief,