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Christian higher education (CHE) is increasingly a transnational
and global endeavor, with over one-sixth of the almost two hundred
institutional members of the Council for Christian Colleges &
Universities (CCCU) located in nineteen countries outside the
United States. Much of this is related to the shift of the
Christian center of gravity to the global South over the last half
century, and in particular to the explosion of pentecostal and
charismatic forms of churches across Asia, Africa, and Latin
America, all of which also feeds back via migration to the
so-called "browning" of the churches of North America. Networks
like the CCCU have sought to bridge faith and learning through a
certain form of Christ-centeredness and biblical orientation. While
these theological priorities of the evangelical Protestant
tradition have gained wide currency, the pneumatic spirituality of
the pentecostal and charismatic movements is rarely considered when
thinking about a distinctively Christian vision of higher
education. When even God is showing up at secular universities, one
wonders what difference considerations of the Holy Spirit might
make to complement and perhaps revitalize the christocentrism
renowned across CHE. The Holy Spirit and Higher Education responds
along two interrelated lines: by reconsidering historic Christian
education itself from this pentecostal perspective, and by
formulating an approach to CHE around the charismatic, sanctifying,
and missional dimensions of the Spirit's activity. Yong and Coulter
show that CHE should be both Christ-centered and
Pentecost-inspired, both biblically faithful and pneumatically
empowered, both faith-committed and charismatically propelled.
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Social Holiness (Paperback)
Alan Kreider; Afterword by Dale M. Coulter
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R975
R784
Discovery Miles 7 840
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This book explores the role of emotions and affections in the
Christian tradition from historical and theological perspectives,
especially related to the work of the Holy Spirit. Although
historians and scholars from a range of traditions—including
Wesleyan, Pentecostal, and Pietist—have engaged these issues,
there has yet to be a sustained examination of the role of emotions
and affectivity across the Christian tradition. By retrieving the
complex discussion about affectivity in Christian tradition and
bringing its many voices into dialogue within a contemporary
ecumenical context, the contributors also point toward a number of
new research trajectories. The essays underscore the need to
understand the shift in Western views of emotion that began in the
late eighteenth century. They also explore in detail the vocabulary
of affectivity as it has developed in the Christian tradition. As
part of this development, the contributors reveal the importance of
pneumatology in Western as well as Eastern Christianity, calling
into question the idea of a pneumatological deficit advanced by
some constructive theologians and addressing the relationship
between affectivity and the pedagogical strategies that enable
persons to cooperate with the work of grace in the soul. Finally,
several essays explore the relationship between the erotic, the
ecstatic, and affectivity in religious belief. This volume will
interest scholars and students of historical theology, of emotions
in theology, and of Christian renewal or charismatic movements.
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