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The Pentecostal movement has had an incredible impact on the shape of worldwide Christianity in the past century. Estimates are that Pentecostals and charismatics make up approximately one-fourth of Christians worldwide, and the numbers are only expected to grow. With these developments comes the need for thoughtful Christians of all persuasions to better understand Pentecostal theology. In fact, Amos Yong believes that Pentecostal theology can be a great gift to the church at large. Yong presents a thoroughly Pentecostal theology of salvation, the church, the nature of God, and creation. He also provides a fascinating survey of the state of worldwide Pentecostalism, examining how Pentecostal theology is influencing Christian churches in other countries.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #367732 in Books
• Published on: 2005-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

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• ISBN13: 9780801027703
• Condition: New
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Review
"Yong is one of a very few pentecostal theologians today who are seeking to understand the relationship between pentecostalism and global issues, and he is perhaps the only one to do so in a sustained manner. In this volume, Yong offers a pentecostal perspective on ecumenism, world religions, and culture with a view toward developing a distinctively pentecostal global theology. Whether one agrees or disagrees with his methodology and conclusions, Yong's contributions cannot be ignored."--Simon Chan, Earnest Lau Professor of Systematic Theology, Trinity Theological College, Singapore "The Spirit Poured Out on All Flesh is an invigorating book. Reflecting upon global pentecostal experiences and practices, Yong has taken his pneumatological imagination to new depths of insight in his quest for a more robust trinitarian theology. The result is a multiperspectival reformulation of Christian theology that allows fresh winds of the Spirit to blow through old doctrines."--Dale T. Irvin, academic dean and professor of world Christianity, New York Theological Seminary "Yong offers a new and comprehensive pentecostal systematic theology. Global in intent, he constructs a theology in conversation with the pentecostal base, classical and contemporary theological traditions, and the complex issues of philosophical hermeneutics and metaphysics in the postmodern world. In so doing, he manages to articulate a truly ecumenical pentecostal discourse that remains true to its pneumatological distinctive as a challenge to both the church catholic and his fellow pentecostals. Yong's voice is distinctive and not easily dismissed. Conversant with a vast array of theological sources, Yong cannot be ignored by any future pentecostal theologian nor will other Christian theologians be able to proceed as if pentecostalism lacked theological articulation. Yong stretches the pentecostal envelope by addressing such topics as a theology of creation and interreligious dialogue while reenvisioning the heart of pentecostal soteriology in the service of a pentecostal ecclesiology. In the tradition of other emancipatory theologies, Yong's work will contribute to the transformative possibilities of pentecostal praxis in reliance upon the Spirit that is a foretaste of the kingdom. In this respect, Yong, with other pentecostal theologians, has also demonstrated that rigorous theological reflection is itself a gift of that same Spirit."--Ralph Del Colle, associate professor of theology, Marquette University "Yong is one of the most creative and promising of the young evangelical/Pentecostal theologians. He has an impressive command of the sources, indomitable energy, and a willingness to venture into new territory. This book, on a subject of increasing urgency to the whole Christian community, is his best to date. Yong is taken seriously within evangelical/Pentecostal circles and increasingly within Christian theology as a whole, so this book is sure to make a mark."--Harvey Cox, Hollis Professor of Divinity, Harvard University; author of When Jesus Came To Harvard

About the Author
Amos Yong (Ph.D., Boston University) is associate research professor of theology at Regent University School of Divinity. He is the author of Beyond the Impasse: Toward a Pneumatological Theology of Religions and Discerning the Spirit(s): A Pentecostal-Charismatic Contribution to Christian Theology of Religions.

Customer Reviews

RE: Sophisticated Theology for Pentecostals
Amos Yong provides a dense, penetrating, and constructive proposal for the future of academic pentecostal theology. Replete with thorough documentation and innovative analysis of both biblical texts and doctrinal hypotheses, this book is not for theological light-weights. This is not inch-deep theology; this volume represents the pinnacle of pentecostal erudition. May pneumatologial theology in this tradition forever prosper.

I heartily recommend this book to those not theologically faint-hearted...

Thomas Jay Oord

A pentecostal systematic theology
Amos Yong, J. Rodman Williams Professor of Theology at Regent University's Divinity School in Virgina, is certainly making a name for himself. Receiving his PhD from the prestigious Boston University, Yong is making head not just in fields of systematic theology, but also science and religion (see his Theology and Down Syndrome: Reimagining Disability in Late Modernity), inter-religious dialogue (Beyond the Impasse) and ecology (The Spirit Renews the Face of the Earth: Pentecostal Forays in Science and Theology of Creation). The Spirit Poured Out on All Flesh: Pentecostalism and the Possibility of Global Theology stands as Yong's attempt to bring together the new face of Global Christianity and the pentecostal theology that is so prevalent within the World Majority. Yong's attempt in this field is certainly another success!

He masterfully covers basic areas of systematic theology (soteriology, christology, ecclesiology, global theology, world religions, and ecology). In each of these areas, Yong joins the pentecostal (read pneumatic) and the global to persuade the reader that a pneumatological reading of Scripture and a global understanding of theological traditions is a must. Yong argues that too often the Spirit has been relegated to a lower status, if you will, among Christians of the West in late modernity. Yong believes that early Christians were much more pneumatic than we give them credit and as much can be gathered from his writing on ecclesiology (chapter 3). Furthermore, he writes that a Spirit-christology is much needed in our discussions of the incarnation and the eschaton (chapter 2). Often times the reader will feel the need to research and the people to whom Yong refers (both ancient and contemporary, known and unknowns) and this will truly give the reader a better reading experience. His work on the relation between other religions may offend conservative readers as he uses the parable of the Good Samaritan as a hermeneutical tool in understanding how we can learn from peoples of other faiths (chapter 6).

There can be moments where you may feel lost or confused, please note: this reading is not light, coffee-table reading. It is best to have an understanding of both Global theology and systematic theology before reading. Besides this warning, as with most of Yong's books, the covers are not extraordinarily brilliant, but the pages contained within certainly are. At the end of the book he writes an epilogue that shows how the fields of theology can be frustrating as he writes, "No doubt, many conclusions proposed here are already dated even as I finish this sentence, and the few valid points leave much unsaid" (p. 303).