The work of the Spirit: pneumatology and Pentecostalism

Ever since the sensational Azusa Street Revival in 1906, the global Pentecostal church has continued to explode numerically, pushing theological debates on the Holy Spirit to the forefront. This insightful collection draws together theologians, scientists, and Pentecostal scholars to make connection...

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Weitere Verfasser: Welker, Michael (HerausgeberIn)
Dokumenttyp: Konferenzschrift
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Grand Rapids, Mich. William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co. 2006
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Verfasserangaben:edited by Michael Welker
Inhaltsangabe:
  • I. Reconceiving the Spirit, Its Personhood and Its Workings:
  • Towards the spirit of Christ: the emergence of the distinctive features of Christian pneumatology / James D.G. Dunn
  • The Holy Spirit, a person?: reflection on the Spirit's Trinitarian identity / Bernd Oberdorfer
  • "How to speak of the Spirit among religions": Trinitarian prolegomena for a pneumatological theology of religions / Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen
  • The nature of the Spirit: creation as a premonition of God / D. Lyle Dabney
  • Workings of the Spirit: simplicity or complexity? / Kathryn Tanner
  • II. The Spirit in Pentecostal Theology:
  • The kingdom and the power: Spirit baptism in pentecostal and ecumenical perspective / Frank D. Macchia
  • Early Pentecostals and the study of popular religious movements in modern America / Grant Wacker
  • The future of American pentecostal identity: the Assemblies of God at a crossroad / Margaret Poloma
  • III. The Spirit: Connecting Theological, Scientific, and Philosophical Insights
  • The hidden Spirit and the cosmos / John Polkinghorne
  • Ruach, the primordial chaos, and the breath of life: emergence theory and the creation narratives in pneumatological perspective / Amos Yong
  • The Spirit in evidence: stories of how decisions are made / Donald G. York and Anna York
  • The Spirit in philosophical, theological, and interdisciplinary perspectives / Michael Welker