Amos Yong
Biography
Amos Yong wrote The Spirit of Creation, The Dialogical Spirit, and The Missiological Spirit.
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Theology
“The church and academy are finally ready for Foundations for Spirit-Filled Christianity, which relays the insights and perspectives of mature Pentecostal and Charismatic theologians and biblical scholars on a broad array of important theological topics, doctrinal loci, and practical realities. Pentecostal theologians from around the world are now ready to speak in their own accents in ways that will benefit the church catholic.”
Theology
“Conversations in first theology have been mostly percolating under the radar the last two decades even as theologies of the Third Article have gained momentum. The analogia spiritus proposed here brings these together in a compelling way via a robust theology of perichoresis that also serves to orient us toward a fully perichoretic theology. Gorsuch invites us all to reconsider how our beliefs and practices—among so many other binarily formulated theological concepts—are both distinct and yet mutually informative and transformative when the Spirit has the first word!”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Many Christians are asking afresh whether the Bible can be helpful for us in the 2020s to be fully committed followers of Jesus, on the one hand, and yet also be engaged in the political realm, on the other hand. The authors of this book have spent much of their lives attempting to understand the New Testament and here bring their decades of academic expertise, accumulated wisdom, and Christian convictions to bear on some of the most difficult but relevant questions at this nexus today, in particular how the church should retain its witness to the gospel while interfacing with the state and its various kinds of governments. Their invitation to explore what faithfulness means between Christian separatism and Christian nationalism is a gift especially to believers that hold Scripture to be normative for Christian faith and practice in a pluralistic world.”
World Religions
“Rereading the gospel story of Jesus in a pluralistic world brings forth treasures old and new: what emerges is the familiar Lord of Christian faith on the one hand, but one who is surprisingly open in his interactions with Samaritans and Gentiles (non-Jews) on the other hand. Bob Robinson leaves no stone unturned in this patient but yet invigorating Christology that shows there is so much more to consider about . . . fresh approaches to people of other faiths today.”
Theology
“Frank Macchia has long been at the vanguard of Pentecostal theology as it has engaged the historic Christian theological tradition. This Pentecostal Christology of his reconfigures the entire theological landscape!”
Evangelism & Missions
“By many accounts, the twenty-first century is expected to be the Asian century! What then might be the implications for understanding Asian religiosity in general and Asian Christianity more specifically in the global context? Sam George and his colleagues provide multiple windows anticipating the most important and burgeoning questions.”
Theology
“Beilby and Eddy have raised the bar with regard to this multiple views genre, this time bringing together world-renowned scholars and theologians to engage a very hot topic. Reading Justification: Five Views is like being treated to five books by five masters of their craft, each going deep into the details at times but yet also stepping back to cover the forest ably enough for the less initiated to appreciate what is at stake. A must-read for those interested in the ecumenical implications of the doctrine of justification.”
Karl Barth and the Future of Evangelical Theology
Theology
“Evangelical orthodoxy is regenerated in this volume by a long-awaited development: an orthopraxic and orthopathic interpretation of and engagement with the legacy of Karl Barth. This constructive trajectory derives especially from a ferment of contemporary pietist, Wesleyan, and Pentecostal interfaces with what has been predominantly a Reformed playground. The landscape where Barth studies intersect with evangelical theology, and the nature of both conversations, has been permanently altered.”
Leadership, God’s Agency, and Disruptions
Church Leadership & Ministry
“What does theology look like after the so-called ‘practical turn’? If some might still think such a ‘turn’ is optional, this book calls that bluff: scriptural reading and theological reflection are situated in a dynamic ‘in-between space’ that enables ongoing inquiry into and discernment about God’s agency in a fluid world through Jesus Christ by the Holy Spirit. This is not about divine usefulness but about Christian leadership and discipleship being continually renewed and reformed by what God is doing.”
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“Loving Samuel confronts the deepest theological questions of the human condition, both by exposing the false certainties of traditional systems and by pressing fully into how despair, desolation, and death can give new meaning to otherwise conventional notions of faith, hope, and love. Classical orthodoxy here gives way to a powerful theological orthopathy, one that enables new witness to arise from out of the crucible of life. Get this book--it may eventually save your faith, if not your life.”
Macroevolution, Contingency, and Divine Activity
Science & Faith
“Few contest the notion that God is God precisely in being able to redeem the pain and suffering of human history and its innumerable underdetermined actions. This work provides a preliminary account of how an undergraduate degree in biology is being redeemed, through the tragic and fluke circumstances involving traumatic brain injury, for contemporary theology in a scientifically understood world. More precisely, Bradford McCall also invites consideration of how divine redemption of the contingencies over the long arc of evolutionary history is occurring, especially as the latter is narrated in the geological, paleontological, and biological sciences.”
Science & Faith
“Unlike other multiple-views volumes prevalent across the evangelical scholarly spectrum in which contributors attempt to convince others of their views, this book invites readers to understand the religious and scientific logic at work amid the disputes. Rau maps not only the origins debate but also the diversity of scientific presuppositions and methodologies. Mapping has the potential to reorient the evangelical discussion and set it in a constructive direction.”
Women
“Mirrored Reflections is a ground-breaking and paradigmatic book for Christian theology in general and evangelical biblical hermeneutics in particular. It opens up space for Asian American women's readings of the Bible without mimicking other feminist agendas; it embraces reader-response approaches while honoring the scriptural horizon; it boldly explores a countercultural contextualism, polyphonous multivocalism, and intersubjective perspectivism without lapsing into relativism; and it insists on the need for us to come to terms with pluralism, globalization, and transnationalism in the pursuit of faithful Christian discipleship in our time. Simply put, this is biblical interpretation and theological reflection at its best: engaging, subversive, transformative, and salvific--for women and men. Evangelical Bible reading will never be the same!”
Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“This is a revolutionary book for evangelical Bible-believers. If its readers end the book motivated to ask the questions it invites and even inspired to identify other possible misreadings because of Western cultural blinders that have not been discussed, they will be more ready to live out the kind of biblically faithful, Christ-honoring and God-fearing lives that they desire to and that the world needs.”
Evangelism & Missions
“If hospitable mission is less about inviting others into our space where we are in charge and more about being vulnerable in the presence of others in their home venues, then Edward Smither calls followers of Jesus to the uncomfortable place of being guests in an unpredictable pluralistic commons. As God who so loved the world gave . . . so also does Mission as Hospitality invite our openhandedness and open-heartedness in embodying the redemptive love and justice of Jesus for others.”
My Body Is Not a Prayer Request
Church Leadership & Ministry
“Kenny says this book is her scream! What resounds is the Holy Spirit’s empowering witness to the ends of the earth about what redemption in Christ looks like for a disabled person. This witness calls all of us nondisabled persons to repent of our ableism. Be prepared to experience God’s saving transformation of our minds, our prejudices, and our ways of life so that we can go from seeing bodies like Amy’s as a prayer request to being part of a church that challenges the ableism in our world.”
Theology
“Neo-Pentecostalism deserves a reading in part because it presents a minority report/stance on contested matters regarding postcolonial Christian self-understandings and the relationship between syncretism and contextualization in majority world contexts but especially since it is one of the few African voices to extend—rather than be apologetic about—the Western argument from three to four decades ago that the prosperity message in that continent was imported from North America.”
Theology
“Networked Theology is robustly theological in (1) addressing the nature of being human (theological anthropology) in an era of network individualism, (2) analyzing the nature of human social relations (ecclesiology and theology of society) in a time of connectivity commodification, and (3) revisioning the form of Christian faithfulness (theology of culture and mission theology) in our digitally mediated world. Amid the emerging literature at the intersection of theology and technology, Campbell and Garner give us the first sustained assessment of contextual and public theology for living in and against Web 3.0.”
Theology
“This new collection derived primarily from evangelical scholars working in the South Asian context provides new impetus to reconsider Christian faith in relationship to the plurality of religious and faith traditions, especially in India but also beyond. The authors make their case especially through in-depth dialogue with the scriptural traditions that the gospel resounds through many cultural frames, not just one, and therefore invite ever more dialogical postures and practices for Christian witness amid the many religio-cultural realities of the human condition.”
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Evangelism & Missions
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