Nimi Wariboko

An Amos Yong Reader

Theology

“In the days when mainstream theologians treated Pentecostalism with disdain, Yong’s scholarship gave birth to twins—systematized pentecostal theology and sophistication. In this scholarship pentecostal thinkers find their most intimate voice, and the global academy witnesses a splendid realization of the potentials of pentecostal theology. This book is a concrete evidence of all these.”

Christ and the Common Life

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Part of the intellectual achievement of this book is rendering political theology more understandable for everyday Christians. For the theological academy, it does something greater. . . . [Bretherton] avoids the ‘sin’ of most political theologians and political philosophers in the Western academy who egregiously only legitimize forms of knowledge coming from their narrow enclaves and marginalize others to the benefit of Western hegemony or (unconscious) white supremacy. . . . His brilliant scholarship, on display in this book, his deliberate choice of interlocutors, and his astute selection of spheres of social life for analysis are a demonstration of what the common life in Christ looks like in theologizing. . . . Bretherton opens things up to multiple voices not as a politically correct ploy, but as a genuine and rigorous engagement with others.”

Contemporary Pentecostal Christianity

Theology

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Groan in the Throat Vol. 1

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“With tremendous reach and power, Tony Baugh synthesizes centuries of thought on Christology. Undergirded by scintillating attention to the twists and turns in the development of christological theologies and the quest for the historical Jesus, Groan in the Throat brings readers to a transformative understanding of Christ. Baugh’s amazing talent for excavation exposes overlooked dimensions of the meaning of Christology that powerfully speak to what it means to be human. Besides, he brilliantly locates Christology on a thought terrain that enables us to theorize post-humanity.”

Introduction to Theology

Theology

“Frank Macchia’s scholarship is unique among systematic theologians as it straddles the best of Pentecostal theology and bears the imprimatur of the finest evangelical thought. This book is a demonstration of the sterling qualities of his scholarship suitably rendered as an introduction to theology and as an invitation to mature theologians to rethink and renew their theologies.”

Neighborhood Transformation

Church Leadership & Ministry

“In a fast-moving prose, Olusegun Osineye lays out a fascinating practical theology of church and society. In deft precise movements, the analysis of church and society relations reconstitutes itself into a provocative public theology of undocumented immigrants in the United States. This is an excellent resource book for ministers and scholars who are after God’s heart for immigrants or strangers in the world.”

Neo-Pentecostalism

Theology

“The author speaks from a deep place of prophetic anguish, arguing that African Pentecostalism has lost its way and sold its soul to the prosperity gospel and late capitalism. Ngoy, nonetheless, offers key insights on how to turn the situation around for the good of the kingdom of God.”

Pentecostal Hermeneutics in the Late Modern World

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Bill Oliverio is one of the foremost Pentecostal hermeneuts in the world. In this book, we encounter him at the height of his intellectual prowess yet pressing toward the mark for the prize of higher summits of scholarship. This collection of essays demonstrates that Oliverio is not at the end of his scholarly gifts; he is not even at the beginning of their end, but at the beginning of the beginning. Expect more from him.”

Redemptive Service

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“This is a profoundly theological-ethical book. Stephenson and Wienk succinctly explain three types of claims God has over all Christians to make them virtuous participants in his redemptive service. These claims are brilliantly interpreted as three distinct but interrelated forms of calling: general, missional, and direct. Through accessible and logical narratival arguments, the authors demonstrate that at the core of a flourishing Christian community is a symphonic plurality of callings that articulate the common good of God’s kingdom.”

Renewal Worship

Theology

“Renewal Worship claims that worship is the measure of all things in the church. And renewal worship is the revolutionary power of Spirit-empowered Christianity. Félix-Jäger in this book crafts an innovative hermeneutics of worship that brilliantly theologizes both the abstract, universal dimension of worship and its concrete, particular nature as a contextualized social activity. The result is an original, incisive, and concise theology of worship constructed not only for Pentecostals but also for the whole body of Christ.”

Renewing Christian Worldview

Theology

“Steven Félix-Jäger and Yoon Shin have laid out the renewal worldview in simple, succinct, and sagacious terms. This book arises from simple ideas, rises to the heights of concise scholarship, and provokes theological imaginations. The book not only brilliantly treats the beauty, goodness, and truth in and of Pentecostal theology, it also transports the reader into the perichoretic beauty, goodness, and truth of a scholarship touched by grace.”

Renewing the Church by the Spirit

Theology

“Amos Yong in this book rethinks, reformats, and relaunches theological education as a missiological calling and task driven by pneumatological imagination. The result is a pragmatic vision of higher education fit for our era characterized by networked global humanity and marked by bold, vital, and renewing movements of the Holy Spirit. The book’s scholarship is subtle, wise, beautiful, and provocative.”

The Christian as Imitator of Christ

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Professor Achampong brilliantly and admirably argues that Jesus Christ is not only our Lord and Savior, but also our social ethics. This means that the deepest and broadest virtue of the Christian is to embody and express the Christic ideals (devotional and ethical principles) within society. Achampong views the Christian as a living imitation of the moral excellences of Jesus Christ within his or her community. The book calls for a spirituality driven by a desire to transform our character and to care for the ‘least of these’ in our world.”

The Dialogical Spirit

Theology

“If there is one theologian whose scholarship marks, mirrors, and advances the evolutionary highpoints of pentecostal theology it is Amos Yong. This inspiring book on theological method demonstrates that the twists, turns, and swerves in his thoughts are the temporal tea leaves that not only interpret the past and present of pentecostal theology, but also decipher the future of charismatic-renewalist theology as the representative Christian theology in the twenty-first century.”

The Golden Band

Theology

“This captivating study of the Spirituals enables Asante Todd to offer brilliant interpretations of Black religion and public theology in America. Todd deploys theology, theomusicology, ethics, and history to innovatively reposition, repurpose, and renew African American studies. This is an important book in religious thought and practice, bearing witness to new insights on the cultural logic of sovereignty and presenting a sophisticated perspective on political theory that social ethicists cannot afford to ignore.”

The Liturgy of the Gospel

Theology

“Wolfgang Vondey is one of those rare thinkers that scholars go to when they want to engage Pentecostal theology at its most astute theoretical dimension, mine it at its systematic theology motherlode, and participate in the effects of its most siring hermeneutics. Vondey in this text does not disappoint his most brilliant and discerning readers. This book—in a robust display of careful reasoning and nuanced familiarity with Pentecostal sensibility—masterfully argues that liturgy, not language, is the medium of Pentecostal hermeneutics.”

The Problem and Promise of Freedom

Theology

“Steven Félix-Jäger has crafted a robust theology of the responsible church. His book presents a church that carefully asks what is going on in the wider culture and responds to the salient issues of the day from its fidelity to covenantal freedom, proclaiming God’s vision of shalom, and embodying a new form of public witness. The responsible church lives out a public theology that is rooted in God’s covenant of abundance. Félix-Jäger’s brilliant book is both a thesis and a manual for churches willing to be ‘responsible’ in today’s controversial Western societies.”

The Role of the Congolese Catholic Church

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Beautifully weaving together African social ethics and Catholic theology, Hermann-Habib Kibangou provides a sophisticated social-ethical analysis of social problems in Congo-Brazzaville that nudges the Congolese Catholic Church to a more positive transformative praxis without blurring the boundary between church and society. Kibangou, in this fascinating book, raises a discomfiting question: Is the African Church ready to promote economic and social justice? This book is for those who desire to see the Church respond with an affirmative yes.”