Interdisciplinary and Religio-Cultural Discourses on a Spirit-Filled World

Interdisciplinary and Religio-Cultural Discourses on a Spirit-Filled World
Title Interdisciplinary and Religio-Cultural Discourses on a Spirit-Filled World PDF eBook
Author V. Kärkkäinen
Publisher Springer
Pages 419
Release 2013-09-12
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1137268999

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This volume presents interdisciplinary, intercultural, and interreligious approaches directed toward the articulation of a pneumatological theology in its broadest sense, especially in terms of attempting to conceive of a spirit-filled world.

Theological Metaphysics

Theological Metaphysics
Title Theological Metaphysics PDF eBook
Author Ray C. Robles
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 345
Release 2023-11-16
Genre Religion
ISBN 056771375X

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Insofar as Christian theology aims to make truthful claims about the nature of reality, it is necessarily involved in the enterprise of metaphysics. Pentecostals, precisely as Christians, are thus obliged to participate. Through this study it becomes evident that pentecostals aim to participate in the metaphysical discipline in the same way they theologize - that is, informed by the norms, practices, and speech acts that constitute their spirituality. This book aims to construct a Christian metaphysics that is at once attuned to pentecostal spirituality/theology and informed by the classical tradition of Christian metaphysics. Ultimately, this work offers a constructive and critical engagement with pentecostal spirituality, and with pentecostal theology via the larger ecumenical, creedal, and dogmatic metaphysical tradition. Thus, this book is explicitly and intentionally limited to understand metaphysics in conversation with the historical Christian tradition, and to understand a pentecostal vision of it.

The Spiritual Soul

The Spiritual Soul
Title The Spiritual Soul PDF eBook
Author Matthew J. Churchouse
Publisher Wipf and Stock Publishers
Pages 281
Release 2024-04-30
Genre Religion
ISBN 1666781371

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What is the human soul? What does it do? How does it relate to the brain and body? What is happening in the soul when a person encounters the Holy Spirit? These are some of the questions addressed in The Spiritual Soul as it advances towards its overall goal of proposing a (re)new(ed) Pentecostal/Charismatic understanding of what constitutes a human being. In pursuing this overarching intention, Churchouse responds to the anthropology of two leading Pentecostal scholars, Amos Yong and Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen—specifically their theological models concerning what a human is constituted / essentially “made up” of—to offer an enhanced Pentecostal model in preference to their monistic view. Drawing upon the sources of biblical studies, the philosophy of mind, and upon the pneumatology that flows from Pentecostal spirituality, Churchouse advances a renewed understanding of the human soul—one illumined by the spirit and the Spirit—to engender his distinctive Pentecostal model of human constitution.

The Missiological Spirit

The Missiological Spirit
Title The Missiological Spirit PDF eBook
Author Amos Yong
Publisher Wipf and Stock Publishers
Pages 289
Release 2014-11-10
Genre Religion
ISBN 1630876003

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The field of the theology of mission has developed variously across Christian traditions in the last century. Pentecostal scholars and missiologists also have made their share of contributions to this area. This book brings the insights of pentecostal theologian Amos Yong to the discussion. It delineates the major features of what will be argued as central to a viable vision and praxis for Christian mission in a postmodern, post-Christendom, post-Enlightenment, post-Western, and postcolonial world. What emerges will be a distinctively pentecostally- and evangelically-informed missiological theology, one rooted in the Christian salvation-history narrative of Incarnation and Pentecost that is yet open to the world in its many and various cultural, ethnic, religious, and disciplinary discourses and realities. The argument unfolds through dialogical engagements with the work of others, concrete case studies, and systematic theological reflection. Yong's pneumatological and missiological imagination proffers a model for Christian theology of mission suitable for the twenty-first-century global and pluralistic context even as it exemplifies how a missiological understanding of theology itself unfolds amidst engagements with contemporary ecclesial practices and academic/theological impulses.

Spirit of God

Spirit of God
Title Spirit of God PDF eBook
Author Jeffrey W. Barbeau
Publisher InterVarsity Press
Pages 270
Release 2015-03-06
Genre Religion
ISBN 0830897755

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Jeffrey Barbeau and Beth Felker Jones edit thirteen essays on the topic of the Holy Spirit in biblical, historical and theological perspective, featuring important contributions on the current shape of global Pentecostalism. Contributors include Allan Anderson, Oliver Crisp, Timothy George, Kevin Vanhoozer, Amos Yong and Geoffrey Wainwright.

African Pentecostalism and World Christianity

African Pentecostalism and World Christianity
Title African Pentecostalism and World Christianity PDF eBook
Author Nimi Wariboko
Publisher Wipf and Stock Publishers
Pages 283
Release 2020-09-15
Genre Religion
ISBN 1725266377

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In the last fifty years, the history of World Christianity has been disproportionally shaped, if not defined, by African Pentecostalism. The objective of this volume is to investigate and interrogate the critical junctures at which World Christianity invigorates and is invigorated by African Pentecostalism. The essays of the thinkers gathered here examine the general relationships between World Christianity and Africa and the specific interplays between World Christianity and African Pentecostalism. Scholars from multiple disciplines, continents, and countries evaluate how the theological scholarship and missional works of eminent African intellectual Johnson Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu have contributed to the scholarly understanding of how Global Christianity has been mediated by its reception in Africa. They also investigate how African Pentecostalism has been shaped by its contact with the diverse forms of Christianity in Africa and the rest of the world. With contributions from: Opoku Onyinah Harvey C. Kwiyani Kirsteen Kim Craig S. Keener Charles Prempeh Kenneth R. Ross Trevor H. G. Smith Vivian Dzokoto Chammah J. Kaunda Felix Kang Esoh Patrick Kofi Amissah Caleb Nyanni Marleen de Witte Oluwaseun Abimbola Philomena Njeru Nwaura Faith Lugazia Dietrich Werner Allan H. Anderson

The Asante World

The Asante World
Title The Asante World PDF eBook
Author Edmund Abaka
Publisher Routledge
Pages 429
Release 2021-05-30
Genre History
ISBN 1351184059

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The Asante World provides fresh perspectives on the Asante, the largest Akan group in Southern Ghana, and what new scholars are thinking and writing about the "world the Asante made." By employing a thematic approach, the volume interrogates several dimensions of Asante history including state formation, Asante-Ahafo and Bassari-Dagomba relations in the context of Asante northward expansion, and the expansion to the south. It examines the role of Islam which, although extremely intense for just a short time, had important ramifications. Together the essays excavate key aspects of Asante political economy and culture, exemplified in kola nut production, the kente/adinkra cloth types and their associated symbols, proverbs, and drum language. The Asante World explores the Asante origins of Jamaican maroons, Asante secular government, contemporary politics of progress, governance through the institution of Ahemaa or Queenmothers, epidemiology and disease, and education in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Featuring innovative and insightful contributions from leading historians of the Asante world, this volume is essential reading for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars concerned with African Studies, African diaspora history, the history of Ghana and the Gold Coast, the history of Islam in Africa, and Asante history.