Amos Yong
Biography
Amos Yong wrote The Spirit of Creation, The Dialogical Spirit, and The Missiological Spirit.
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Theology
“The Gospel Revisited enacts the tridactic hermeneutic Archer developed in his first book and will serve to renew Pentecostal community, redeem the biblical narrative for twenty-first-century readers, and revitalize Christian theology in the light of the work of the Spirit of the Triune God. This is edifying theological reflection, borne out of faithful discipleship, fervent spirituality, and palpable (and contagious) piety. May its many readers be led to embody that Gospel that is revisited.”
The Holy Spirit -- In Biblical Teaching, through the Centuries, and Today
Theology
“Magisterial! Brilliant! Erudite! Anthony Thiselton offers a sure-handed overview of the biblical teachings on the Spirit, maps the major historical streams of pneumatological reflection, and charts the important trajectories going forward. . . . This book bridges heretofore divergent polemics and opens up new dialogical horizons and possibilities for the contemporary theological task.”
The Holy Spirit and Christian Mission
Evangelism & Missions
“The contributors in the volume ask how a pneumatological imagination and a charismatic praxis can empower Christian witness in a pluralistic public square. Herein is an ecumenical contribution to a robust vision of Pentecost and Third Article Theology inspired by the Indian experience but for the third millennium global context!”
The Idea of a Christian College
Discipleship & Christian Education
“All those envisioning a robustly Christian university for the twenty-first century--including administrators, trustees, faculty, and (co-curricular) staff--will need to read this book.”
Theology
“Wolfgang Vondey is one of the most accomplished doctrinal theologians to have emerged from the Pentecostal movement. The essays collected here demonstrate the development of his systematic thinking over the course of two decades, particularly as working out his theology of the full gospel. The new introductory and concluding bookends to the volume recast Vondey’s liturgical imagination in dialogue with Gadamer’s general hermeneutics and suggest instead a ‘this-is-and-is-not-that’ both fusion and fission of horizons generated playfully, unpredictably, and non-conformationally from altar encounters with the divine Spirit. The result is a transformation-of-life interpretive posture that not only names what happens through Pentecost events but also deserves broader methodological and hermeneutical consideration befitting Vondey’s stature as an internationally renowned ecumenical theologian.”
The Missionary Movement from the West
Evangelism & Missions
“The Missionary Movement from the West invites all of us interested in the fortunes of Christianity across the continents of the modern and late modern world to be informed and gripped by a master storyteller. . . . I dare say no one should think they could imagine the possibility of effective Christian missional witness after 2025 without first having read this book!”
Theology
“Yes, Pentecostals will, and those interested in understanding these believers and their way of being in the world should read this book. But anyone wishing to comprehend further how contemporary Jesus followers might respond to the words of the living Christ in late modernity also ought to pick up this volume since its hypothesis invites participation in a form of christological knowing that may indeed catalyze discipleship in our ambiguous world! Nimi Wariboko remains here, as in his many other works, an elucidator and provocateur!”
The Pentecostal Mission in Palestine
History & Biography
“Eric Newberg sets a new and exceedingly high standard for Pentecostal historiography in a late modern and postcolonial context. The hagiographic propensities of earlier 'insider' accounts are here replaced by a sophisticated and sympathetic, but yet not uncritical, examination that sheds light on and interrogates both Pentecostal mission history and contemporary global Pentecostal attitudes to Jerusalem, Israel, and the Middle East. Historians and all others interested in the present Arab-Israeli crisis are urged to read this groundbreaking book.”
Theology
“This 'pneumatology from below'-not in the methodological but in the geographical sense: from New Zealand-extends the contemporary renaissance of the discussion on the doctrine of the Holy Spirit across the theological loci and disciplines. A veritable pneumatological contribution indeed by Myk Habets and his colleagues from Down Under.”
The State of the Evangelical Mind
“How do we understand the state of the evangelical mind when some 80 percent voted red in the 2016 US presidential election? This little book may serve as a catalyst for a generation of those either despairing of or hopeful about making a difference—not just politically but especially theologically and intellectually—just as Mark Noll's Scandal prompted those half a generation ago to rise up and be counted.”
Theology
“A work of a mature thinker, this book secures Oord's legacy as the theologian of love. It is a comprehensive theological response to the age-old question of how genuine evil exists even assuming the omnipotent and omnibenevolent God of Christian faith, and is all the more compelling given its biblical, philosophical and scientifically informed tapestry—no mean feat! The faithful across all Christian traditions will be encouraged to live a life of love even as skeptics will be invited to think again and again.”
Theology and the Mirror of Scripture
Theology
“In the last decade, Vanhoozer and Treier have been as busy as anyone else—arguably more so—on theological prolegomena and the full range of questions contested in that complex arena. Theology and the Mirror of Scripture gathers together the various strands of their arguments but also charts a coherent forward trajectory. This account is a veritable starting point for all those who would be mere evangelical theologians amidst the present ferment.”
Towards the Day after Tomorrow
Theology
“What happens when Karl Barth, C. S. Lewis, and a lifelong severe epileptic discuss the last days and the end of time? We get a starkly vivid, imaginatively rich, and existentially urgent recounting of the judgments of God manifest centrally in the story of Jesus Christ, albeit mediated through twentieth-century events, late-modern parabolic forms, and even contemporary TV sitcoms! These three witnesses converge in and resound through the life and writings of Paul Brazier, whose proleptic reflections on the last trumpet will confront readers today with the realities of the day after tomorrow!”
Trajectories in the Book of Acts
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Finally! A set of Pentecostal readings of Luke-Acts that not only engages the texts dear to Pentecostals but interacts with the broad scope of Luke's narrative, and does so with hermeneutical skill and creative insight. Herein we have Pentecostal tongues translated for a broader readership-non-Pentecostal biblical scholars should take notice.”
Theology
“Andy Lord's vision of transformation is almost cosmic, nurtured indeed by sources from the biblical times and spaces to the twenty-first century; from evangelical to ecumenical traditions; from low-church Protestantism to liturgical Catholicism; from charismatic to contemplative communities; even from Western forms of Christian faith to Eastern philosophical, cultural, and religious ways of life! Do not open this book unless you are ready for a reorientation of thinking, a renewal of the heart, and a revitalization of Christian discipleship fit for the twenty-first-century global context.”
Theology
“Mysterious yet illuminating! Paradoxical yet clarifying! Opaque yet brilliant! Atkinson shows that starting with the Spirit poured out at Pentecost opens up multiple dissonant and yet altogether coherent tongues and pathways toward a dynamic, perichoretic, and relational theology of the Trinity that anticipates the fullness of eschatological divine glory. No longer is the Spirit the shy, hidden, or neglected Trinitarian member.”
Twelve Great Books that Changed the University
Discipleship & Christian Education
“Wilkens and Thorsen are to be commended for mobilizing their colleagues at Azusa Pacific University to put together a marvelous introduction to a few great books of the Western canon, especially for undergraduate students. Faculty who teach the liberal arts in Christian colleges and universities will find this a fair, critical, and helpful point of entry for those approaching these important original sources for the first time.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“'Fake news!' some might react upon seeing the title of L. Daniel Hawk's book. Yet echoing the voice urging St. Augustine before biblical scrolls to 'take up and read,' I dare any considering Undoing Manifest Destiny to do the same and then prove the Scriptures wrong that 'the truth will set you free' (John 8:32)! What truths? Settler truths! Government truths! Native and Indigenous American truths! Each of these voices resound concretely through Hawk's pursuit of justice so that—and here be forewarned!—you and I as readers will be unsettled from the blinders of our preferred 'testimonies' and impelled by the Spirit of truth to bear ever more authentic witness to the coming divine reign that promises, finally, to undo all earthly colonial regimes, even the ones that we are complicit with because of the benefits gained.”
“If you have time to read one book on diversity, inclusion, and equity this year, you will want to prioritize Untold Stories. . . . If we want to see CCCU institutions become more like what John describes as the community of the gospel constituted by those from every nation, tribe, people, and language, we will need to grapple ever more seriously with the witnesses of our brothers and sisters of color.”
NOTE: Only includes books currently in our catalog; not necessarily a complete list.
Evangelism & Missions
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