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This brief but comprehensive introduction to Christian worldview
helps readers understand the Christian faith as the substance of
Spirit-filled living and as a knowledge tradition stemming from the
global Pentecostal movement. Using beauty, truth, and goodness as
organizing principles, the authors delineate a Christian worldview
by tracing each category historically, comparing and contrasting
each with alternative Christian expressions, and constructing fresh
takes on each as read through the lived Pentecostal experience.
Unlike other worldview books, the authors' approach emphasizes
beauty (relating to experience) rather than truth (involving
knowledge acquisition); that difference in emphasis flows naturally
from the Pentecostal perspective, which has traditionally centered
the experience of the Spirit. Pentecostal Christians will find this
volume indispensable for thinking lucidly about their worldview
from a renewal perspective.
Among many of his influences, James K. A. Smith set the agenda for
Pentecostal philosophy with the publication of Thinking in Tongues,
which addressed a wide range of philosophical loci through the lens
of Pentecostal spirituality. In particular, he articulated an
epistemology called narrative, affective knowledge, one that
carefully utilizes the resources from continental philosophy and
Pentecostalism. In Pentecostalism, Postmodernism, and Reformed
Epistemology: James K. A. Smith and the Contours of a Postmodern
Christian Epistemology, while accepting the broader descriptions of
narrative, affective epistemology, Yoon Shin critically modifies
and strengthens Smith's epistemology through careful exposition and
critique and with the aid of wide-ranging resources, such as moral
psychology, philosophy of emotion, postliberalism, and Reformed
epistemology. Through his exposition, Shin argues that Smith's
Pentecostal epistemology is not uniquely Pentecostal, but
postliberal and postmodern. Against Smith's insistence that to be a
Christian postmodern is to be a relativist, Shin critiques Smith's
misunderstanding of postliberalism and its realist commitment and
argues for a performative correspondence theory of truth. Moreover,
he expands on Smith's thin prescription for knowledge by enlisting
the aid of Reformed epistemology. Through dialogue with Reformed
epistemology, Shin identifies three areas for dialogue between
postmodern and Reformed epistemology in service of developing a
postmodern Christian epistemology.
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