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Christians talk about the Holy Spirit, but rarely know how to
recognize the Spirit's presence and activity in the world. Luke is
the most illuminating gospel writer on the topic of the Holy
Spirit. Luke writes about Jesus as the messiah anointed by the Holy
Spirit, and about the church as the Spirit-empowered fellowship in
the Mediterranean world of the first century. These meditations on
Luke-Acts attempt to discern how the winds of the Spirit have blown
in the lives of Jesus, his disciples, and the earliest Christians
so that we can track and participate in the works of the Holy
Spirit in the global village of the 21st century.
The Pentecostal movement has had an incredible impact on the shape
of worldwide Christianity in the past century. Estimates are that
Pentecostals and charismatics make up approximately one-fourth of
Christians worldwide, and the numbers are only expected to grow.
With these developments comes the need for thoughtful Christians of
all persuasions to better understand Pentecostal theology. In fact,
Amos Yong believes that Pentecostal theology can be a great gift to
the church at large.
Yong presents a thoroughly Pentecostal theology of salvation, the
church, the nature of God, and creation. He also provides a
fascinating survey of the state of worldwide Pentecostalism,
examining how Pentecostal theology is influencing Christian
churches in other countries.
Christianity Today Book Award Winner Outreach Resource of the Year
(Multicultural) ASM (American Society of Missiology) Book of the
Year Award Globalization is speeding up our world, extending our
relationships globally and bringing us closer together in positive
and not-so-positive ways. The church and many Christians, however,
remain largely unaware of its seductive power, resulting in a
failure of vision for mission in today's world. This up-to-date
resource by a veteran leader in global development work with World
Vision orients readers to the history of globalization and to a
Christian theological perspective on it, explores concrete
realities by focusing on global poverty, and helps readers
reimagine Christian mission in ways that announce the truly good
news of Christ and God's kingdom. Diagrams and sidebars that
incorporate the voices of global partners are included. This is the
second book in a new series that reframes missiological themes and
studies for students using/featuring the common theme of mission as
partnership with Christians.
Christianity Today Book Award Winner ASM (American Society of
Missiology) Book of the Year Award Named one of Ten Outstanding
Books of 2016 for Mission Studies, International Bulletin of
Mission Research This up-to-date textbook features global
perspectives on current Christian engagement with Islam, equipping
readers for mission among Muslims. Evelyne Reisacher, who has
worked extensively with Muslims in Europe, helps readers move from
fear to joy as they share the gospel with Muslims. Reisacher
surveys areas where Muslims and Christians encounter one another in
the twenty-first century, highlighting innovative models of
Christian witness in everyday life. Drawing on insights from global
Christianity, this survey takes account of diverse conceptions of
Muslim-Christian relations. The book may surprise those who believe
mission among Muslims is nearly impossible. This is the first book
in the Mission in Global Community series, which reframes
missiological themes and studies for students around the common
theme of mission as partnership with others. Series authors draw
upon their own global experience and that of their global
colleagues to illumine present realities and chart a course into
the future. Series editors are Scott W. Sunquist and Amos Yong.
In 2006, the contemporary American Pentecostal movement
celebrated its 100th birthday. Over that time, its African American
sector has been markedly influential, not only vis-a-vis other
branches of Pentecostalism but also throughout the Christian
church. Black Christians have been integrally involved in every
aspect of the Pentecostal movement since its inception and have
made significant contributions to its founding as well as the
evolution of Pentecostal/charismatic styles of worship, preaching,
music, engagement of social issues, and theology. Yet despite its
being one of the fastest growing segments of the Black Church,
Afro-Pentecostalism has not received the kind of critical attention
it deserves.
Afro-Pentecostalism brings together fourteen interdisciplinary
scholars to examine different facets of the movement, including its
early history, issues of gender, relations with other black
denominations, intersections with popular culture, and missionary
activities, as well as the movement's distinctive theology.
Bolstered by editorial introductions to each section, the chapters
reflect on the state of the movement, chart its trajectories,
discuss pertinent issues, and anticipate future developments.
Contributors: Estrelda Y. Alexander, Valerie C. Cooper, David D.
Daniels III, Louis B. Gallien, Jr., Clarence E. Hardy III, Dale T.
Irvin, Ogbu U. Kalu, Leonard Lovett, Cecil M. Robeck, Jr., Cheryl
J. Sanders, Craig Scandrett-Leatherman, William C. Turner, Jr.,
Frederick L. Ware, and Amos Yong
Hearts Minds Bookstore's Best Books of 2015, Theology Toward the
end of the twentieth century, Lesslie Newbigin offered a
penetrating analysis of the challenges of pluralism that confronted
a Western culture and society reeling from the dissolution of
Christendom. His enormous influence has been felt ever since.
Newbigin (1909-1998) was a longtime Church of Scotland missionary
to India and later General Secretary of the International
Missionary Council and Associate General Secretary of the World
Council of Churches. The first installment in the Missiological
Engagements series, the essays in this volume explore three aspects
of Newbigin?s legacy. First, they assess the impact of his 1989
book, Gospel in a Pluralist Society, on Christian mission and
evangelism in the West. Second, they critically analyze the nature
of Western pluralism in its many dimensions to discern how
Christianity can proclaim good news for today. Finally, the
contributors discuss the influence of Newbigin's work on the field
of missiology. By looking backward, this volume recommends and
advances a vision for Christian witness in the pluralistic world of
the twenty-first century. Contributions from leading missiologists
and theologians, including: William Burrows John Flett Veli-Matti
Karkkainen Esther Meek Wilbert Shenk Missiological Engagements
charts interdisciplinary and innovative trajectories in the
history, theology, and practice of Christian mission, featuring
contributions by leading thinkers from both the Euro-American West
and the majority world whose missiological scholarship bridges
church, academy, and society.
Paul Tillich (1886-1965) is widely regarded as one of the most
influential theologians of the 20th century. By bringing his
thought together with the theology and practices of an important
contemporary Christian movement, Pentecostalism, this volume
provokes active, productive, critical, and creative dialogue with a
broad range of theological topics. These essays stimulate robust
conversation, engage on common ground regarding the work of the
Holy Spirit, and offer significant insights into the universal
concerns of Christian theology and Paul Tillich and his legacy.
Bringing Pentecostal theology into the Bible and mission
conversation, Amos Yong identifies the role of the divine spirit in
God's mission to redeem the world. As he works through the Bible
from Genesis to Revelation, Yong emphasizes the global
missiological imperative: "People of all nations reaching out to
people of all nations." Sidebars include voices from around the
globe who help the author put the biblical text into conversation
with twenty-first-century questions, offering the church a fresh
understanding of its mission and how to pursue it in the decades to
come.
Contemporary proposals for Christian theology from post-liberalism
to Radical Orthodoxy and beyond have espoused their own
methodological paradigms. Those who have ventured into this domain
of theological method, however, have usually had to stake their
claims vis-a-vis trends in what may be called the contemporary
"post-al" age, whether of the post-modern, post-Christendom,
post-Enlightenment, post-Western, or post-colonial varieties. This
volume is unique among offerings in this arena in suggesting a way
forward that engages on each of these fronts, and does so from a
particularistic Christian perspective without giving up on
Christian theology's traditional claims to universality. This is
accomplished through the articulation of a distinctive dialogical
methodology informed by both Pentecostalism and Evangelicalism, one
rooted in the Christian salvation-history narrative of Incarnation
and Pentecost that is yet open to the world in its many and various
cultural, ethnic, religious, and disciplinary discourses. Amos Yong
here engages with twelve different interlocutors representing
different ecumenical, religious, and disciplinary perspectives.
'The Dialogical Spirit' thus not only proffers a model for
Christian theological method suitable for the twenty-first century
global context but also exemplifies this methodological approach
through its interactions across the contemporary scholarly,
inter-religious, and theological landscape.
Inspiring and challenging study that rethinks the Bible's teaching
on disability A theologian whose life experience includes growing
up alongside a brother with Down syndrome, Amos Yong in this book
rereads and reinterprets biblical texts about human disability,
arguing that the way we read biblical texts, not the Bible itself,
is what causes us to marginalize persons with disabilities.
Revealing and examining the underlying stigma of disability that
exists even in the church, Yong shows how the Bible offers good
news to people of all abilities -- and he challenges churches to
become more inclusive communities of faith.
The field of the theology of mission has developed variously across
Christian traditions in the last century. Pentecostal scholars and
missiologists also have made their share of contributions to this
area. This book brings the insights of pentecostal theologian Amos
Yong to the discussion. It delineates the major features of what
will be argued as central to a viable vision and praxis for
Christian mission in a postmodern, post-Christendom,
post-Enlightenment, post-Western, and postcolonial world. What
emerges will be a distinctively pentecostally- and
evangelically-informed missiological theology, one rooted in the
Christian salvation-history narrative of Incarnation and Pentecost
that is yet open to the world in its many and various cultural,
ethnic, religious, and disciplinary discourses and realities. The
argument unfolds through dialogical engagements with the work of
others, concrete case studies, and systematic theological
reflection. Yong's pneumatological and missiological imagination
proffers a model for Christian theology of mission suitable for the
twenty-first-century global and pluralistic context even as it
exemplifies how a missiological understanding of theology itself
unfolds amidst engagements with contemporary ecclesial practices
and academic/theological impulses.
Yes, White people can be saved. In God's redemptive plan, that goes
without saying. But what about the reality of white normativity?
This idea and way of being in the world has been parasitically
joined to Christianity, and this is the ground of many of our
problems today. It is time to redouble the efforts of the church
and its institutions to muster well-informed, gospel-based
initiatives to fight racialized injustice and overcome the heresy
of whiteness. Written by a world-class roster of scholars, Can
"White" People Be Saved? develops language to describe the current
realities of race and racism. It challenges evangelical
Christianity in particular to think more critically and
constructively about race, ethnicity, migration, and mission in
relation to white supremacy. Historical and contemporary
perspectives from Africa and the African diaspora prompt fresh
theological and missiological questions about place and identity.
Native American and Latinx experiences of colonialism, migration,
and hybridity inspire theologies and practices of shalom. And Asian
and Asian American experiences of ethnicity and class generate
transnational resources for responding to the challenge of systemic
injustice. With their call for practical resistance to the Western
whiteness project, the perspectives in this volume can revitalize a
vision of racial justice and peace in the body of Christ.
Missiological Engagements charts interdisciplinary and innovative
trajectories in the history, theology, and practice of Christian
mission, featuring contributions by leading thinkers from both the
Euro-American West and the majority world whose missiological
scholarship bridges church, academy, and society.
Paul Tillich (1886-1965) is widely regarded as one of the most
influential theologians of the 20th century. By bringing his
thought together with the theology and practices of an important
contemporary Christian movement, Pentecostalism, this volume
provokes active, productive, critical, and creative dialogue with a
broad range of theological topics. These essays stimulate robust
conversation, engage on common ground regarding the work of the
Holy Spirit, and offer significant insights into the universal
concerns of Christian theology and Paul Tillich and his legacy.
How do we hear the Spirit's voice in Scripture? Once we have done
responsible exegesis, how may we expect the Spirit to apply the
text to our lives and communities? In Spirit Hermeneutics biblical
scholar Craig Keener addresses these questions, carefully
articulating how the experience of the Spirit that empowered the
church on the day of Pentecost can-and should-dynamically shape our
reading of Scripture today. Keener considers what Spirit-guided
interpretation means, explores implications of an epistemology of
Word and Spirit for biblical hermeneutics, and shows how Scripture
itself models an experiential appropriation of its message.
Bridging the Word-Spirit gap between academic and experiential
Christian approaches, Keener's Spirit Hermeneutics narrates a way
of reading the Bible that is faithful both to the Spirit-inspired
biblical text and to the experience of the Spirit among believers.
This volume brings 'America's theologian' and one of the fastest
growing forms of Christianity into dialogue. Edwards is a fruitful
source for Pentecostal investigation for historical and theological
reasons. Edwards and Pentecostals descend from a common historical
tradition-North American Evangelicalism. From revivalism and
religious/charismatic experience to pneumatology they also share
common theological interests. Though sharing a common history and
core theological concerns, no critical conversation between
Pentecostals and Edwards and their fields of scholarship has
occurred. This is the first volume that provides Pentecostal
readings of Edwards' theology that contribute to Pentecostal
theology and Edwards scholarship. The contributing essays offer
examination of affections and the Spirit, God and Salvation, Church
and culture; and mission and witness.
While the struggle for disability rights has transformed secular
ethics and public policy, traditional Christian teaching has been
slow to account for disability in its theological imagination. Amos
Yong crafts both a theology of disability and a theology informed
by disability. The result is a Christian theology that not only
connects with our present social, medical, and scientific
understanding of disability but also one that empowers a set of
best practices appropriate to our late modern context.
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Amos Yong; Edited by Josh P S Samuel; Afterword by Tony Richie
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