Amos Yong
Biography
Amos Yong wrote The Spirit of Creation, The Dialogical Spirit, and The Missiological Spirit.
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Theology
“Usually multiple-views books help us to sort out better and worse articulations of our approaches to especially difficult theological ideas or dogmatic formulations. Every so often, however, what we find is that one truth has many viable explanations and accents that derive from and reflect the catholicity of the church's dynamic theological traditions. Our five contributors here remind us of the rich resources available within the church for understanding the human condition of sinfulness, frailty, and finitude and for empowering theological exploration and inquiry in the third millennium.”
Theology
“The maturation of pentecostal theology and scholarship, Neumann's analysis shows, also brings with it the conflict of pentecostal interpretations. Welcome to the contestations!”
Pentecostal Hermeneutics in the Late Modern World
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“If ‘hermeneutics’ is the science and art of reading, Oliverio is one of the few Pentecostal hermeneuts who recognizes that our ability to read books, texts, and even Scripture is intertwined with our capacity to read the world around us. This collection of essays . . . performs effectively the reiterative and dynamic character of the hermeneutical spiral and invites readers into the conversation—welcome to a hermeneutical imagination that attempts to follow where the Spirit leads!”
Pentecostalism as a Christian Mystical Tradition
Theology
“There are apologetic claims in this book, about Pentecostalism and mysticism, and even about evangelicalism, that will be provocative on all three fronts. But all who have a vested interest in the Pentecostal and evangelical movements must hereafter grapple with Daniel Castelo's work, particularly if they are also committed to Christian life in the Spirit.”
Pentecostalism, Catholicism, and the Spirit in the World
Theology
“Two thousand years ago, St. Luke wrote about the Spirit being poured out on all flesh, and the Roman Catholic Church gradually emerged and spread across the world. In the last decade Stan Ilo has been documenting different aspects of the growth of African Catholicism and now turns his editor's gaze on the century-long work of the Holy Spirit in Pentecostal, neo-Pentecostal, (Catholic) charismatic churches, and related movements transnationally. Pentecostalism, Catholicism, and the Spirit in the World not only illuminates these movements across the majority world and even North America (one chapter focuses on the Korean North American Catholic diaspora) but also explores (in another chapter) the possibility of the Spirit’s presence and activity among Senegalese Muslims! Both newcomers and seasoned scholars working at the interface where Pentecostal studies meets Catholic studies will find much of interest in this new book.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“It's coming! Pentecostals and Nonviolence retrieves and describes a neglected history of pentecostal peacemaking; and as such, it serves as an important preliminary step to prescribing biblical peacemaking. It's coming! The seeds of such a normative pentecostal vision of peacemaking are being nurtured in this book. It's coming! A prophetic pentecostal theology of peacemaking and social justice so desperately needed for the second largest Christian movement in the world. Maybe it's here! Take up this book, read, and decide for yourself.”
Perspectives in Pentecostal Eschatologies
Theology
“Doesn't the otherworldliness of Pentecostalism result in a view of the end times reducible to the doctrine of the rapture of the church? Not according to the biblical scholars, historians, ethicists, and theologians who have contributed to this book. Those who overlook it will be 'left behind' on the breadth and depth of current Pentecostal thinking about eschatology!”
Evangelism & Missions
“Polycentric Missiology not only emerges from everywhere (as indicated by the book's title)—the author being the only one to have personally attended all five of the conferences discussed in the book—but also catapults Allen Yeh from 'up-and-coming' to 'established scholar' status. Here is a historically informed, ecumenically broad, and polyperspectival analysis of missiological trends appropriate to their polymorphic character at the start of the third global millennium, yet one that also characterizes the life-giving generosity of the gospel needed for everyone in a complex and dynamic world.”
Theology
“In a time of palpable white fragility and vulnerability, Heaney’s is a poignant theological testimony to the hopeful resistance needed not only to respond to the legacy of hate left by the colonial enterprise, but to constructively forge a new people of God and body of Christ linked across peoples, cultures, ethnicities, and even nations in the present time.”
Power, Agency, and Women in the Mission of God
Evangelism & Missions
Foreword
“Another urgent matter and landmark volume from Fuller’s annual Missiology Lectures, one brimming with biblical, theological, global, and practical perspectives on the actual and yet possible contributions of women to our common missional efforts. I highly encourage fellow missioners and mission leaders to attend to the missiological tongues bearing witness across these pages.”
Theology
“This is a kairotic book. For one, the taxonomy of animal theologies provides desperately needed orientation to newcomers to literature that has exploded in the field in the last thirty years. More importantly, McLaughlin's constructive creational vision is a theological tour de force that gets us beyond the tired impasses erected by the ideological left and the political right. And to the many who have given up on the complex task of theodicy in our time, Preservation and Protest deftly addresses the questions related to animal suffering and death in an evolutionary world. The result is sure to be a ‘game changer’ in the current theological landscape.”
World Religions
“Psalms, Islam, and Shalom features Punjabi and Pakistani singers, songwriters, and other voices resounding as both Christian and Muslim witnesses that reverberate with comparative musicological, liturgical, hermeneutical, theological, and missiological implications and applications. Church, mosque, and academy will be resonating with Sarwar's intonations for the next decade-plus!”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Race is neither a white/black issue nor is it merely one of political correctness. Rather, it's about ghettos, ethnic enclaves, suburbia, and gentrification. David Leong helps us see how racialized our cities have been historically and how we continue to suffer under these decisions from decades ago. But Race and Place also provides us with concrete steps to live out the good news of justice and shalom in our neighborhoods and communities. There is plenty here for theorists to mull over and much for activists to work for as well.”
Theology
“I have been waiting on this book from Cheryl Bridges Johns since reading Pentecostal Formation. Her argument there that the Holy Spirit shapes human discipleship in the way of the anointed messiah and living Christ is here extended to show that the same Spirit does so through re-enchanting the human imagination to be curious about the strange and dangerous world of the Bible. Feast on this volume and open yourself up to God’s mystery being unveiled in our daily lives, even in a late modern world.”
Theology
“How might our all-too-human experience of disability in all of its variegatedness continue to shape, refine, and guide not just our thinking in general, but our deepest reflections and ideas about theology—even about God!? Redefining Perfect is effectively a re-systemization of the historical theological loci, albeit now brought into unexpected fullness and fruition by the perspectives of people with disabilities and their friends, family members, and caretakers. For each of these groups of persons surely, but also for all who wish to press more profoundly into important dimensions of life.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“What does misión integral and holistic mission look like in middle-class America to students at Christian colleges and universities in North America who are anticipating or discerning God’s vocational call on their lives? Stephenson and Wienk have years of experience teaching in this environment and have written the perfect textbook on this topic, one that is biblically rich, theologically robust, and sociologically informed. The result is now the go-to volume for Christian relief, development, and advocacy efforts so needed by the church serving society in the next generation.”
Theology
“Steven Félix-Jäger is the right person to provide a Pentecostal perspective to this important Dynamics of Christian Worship series at this time. He masterfully brings the nascent scholarship in Pentecostal worship into dialogue with the main lines of worship studies and theologies of worship, while bridging these theoretical frames with contemporary praise culture and practices. This book is the perfect springboard not only for next steps in Pentecostal theologies of worship for the diversity of world Christian movements, but also for all who seek to worship God in spirit and in truth.”
Theology
“Renewing Christian Worldview does just that: it reinvigorates the worldview discussion, albeit from a Pentecostal perspective. Félix-Jäger and Shin here provide a frame for engaging voices and perspectives from the global South as part of the necessary next steps both in the ongoing maturation of the Pentecostal academy and for further considerations of the transcendentals by theologians across world Christianity.”
Rescuing the Gospel from the Cowboys
Evangelism & Missions
“Richard Twiss's legacy is to challenge the distinctions cowboys have made much of to explore how a more faithful life on the Jesus way can be forged. This message is important not only for cowboys and indians but for all who are committed to the cause of the gospel in our twenty-first century global context.”
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