Deconstruction and the Spirit
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Deconstruction and the Spirit

How Pastors Can Better Understand Deconstruction and How to Approach It from a Pentecostal Perspective

  1. 142 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Deconstruction and the Spirit

How Pastors Can Better Understand Deconstruction and How to Approach It from a Pentecostal Perspective

About this book

Deconstructive faith experiences are growing in number throughout global Christianity. Factors like globalization, individualism, education, post-colonial experiences, fundamentalism, connectivity, and others contribute to accelerate this trend and shape the environment of faith communities that find themselves amongst increasingly postmodern tendencies. Many pastors are deciding to ignore the situation by rejecting deconstruction altogether, while others are embracing it blindly. Since an overwhelming number of churches worldwide embrace Pentecostalism, Esteban Solis proposes a pastoral response from a distinctively Pentecostal perspective that engages deconstruction of faith critically while staying open to conceive it as a tool for Spirit-led discipleship that can produce a more mature faith. The book examines six affirmations made by Jacques Derrida that explain deconstruction. Each of these is contrasted with specific examples of cultural changes taking place in Costa Rica, Peter's experience at the house of Cornelius, and a Pentecostal perspective. By exploring a variety of authors, Solis identifies different tools that can help pastors to better understand the experience of deconstruction while engaging in discipleship practices that can produce mature believers in a postmodern era.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Chapter 1: Postmodernism and the Global South
  3. Chapter 2: Deconstruction Happens
  4. Chapter 3: Deconstruction Happens from Inside
  5. Chapter 4: Deconstruction Is Not a Method
  6. Chapter 5: Deconstruction Is a Call
  7. Chapter 6: Deconstruction Is a “Yes” to the Other
  8. Chapter 7: Deconstruction Is Affirmative of Institutions. . . Is Not Destruction
  9. Chapter 8: What Is Going On?
  10. Chapter 9: Why Is This Going On?
  11. Chapter 10: What Ought to Be Going On?
  12. Chapter 11: How Might We Respond?
  13. A Word of Advice
  14. Bibliography