The Spirit Renews the Face of the Earth

Pentecostal Forays in Science and Theology of Creation

Amos Yong, Yong

• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN:
  9781606081969
  9781498252447
• eBook ISBN:
  9781630876838
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Church

This collection of essays was first presented at the 37th annual meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, held jointly with the Wesleyan Theological Society at Duke University in March 2008, under the conference theme, "Signs, Sighs, and Significance: Pentecostal and Wesleyan Explorations of Science and Creation." Along with a companion volume of Wesleyan essays published also by Pickwick Publications, the twelve chapters here represent both Pentecostal reflections/responses to the science-religion discussion and Pentecostal contributions to the ongoing exchange by biblical studies specialists, historians, and theologians, among those trained in other disciplines. Together the essayists model an actual dialogue in which Pentecostal scholarly reflection is impacted by science-religion discourses on the one hand, while Pentecostals reach deep into their own tradition to explore how their pre-understandings and commitments might enable them to speak with their own voice into pre-existing conversations on the other hand. This volume thus represents one of the first-hopefully the first of many-in which Pentecostals register their perspectives on a major issue of our time. In a world dominated by science, and at a time when theologies of creation that encourage and require care for creation and the environment are proliferating, The Spirit Renews the Face of the Earth provides a set of Pentecostal perspectives on these important matters.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Preface
• Introduction
• Part One: Biblical Interpretations
• Chapter 1: The Face of God as His Creating Spirit
• Chapter 2: Created for Shalom
• Chapter 3: Revelation and the (New) Creation
• Part Two: Historical Elaborations
• Chapter 4: Cautious Co-belligerence?
• Chapter 5: Creation Revealed
• Chapter 6: Evolving Paradigms
• Part Three: Theological Explications
• Chapter 7: Preaching the “Full Gospel” in the Context of Global Environmental Crises
• Chapter 8: Pentecostal Ecology
• Chapter 9: Implications of the Kenosis of the Spirit for a Creational Eschatology
• Part Four: Contextual and Disciplinary Applications
• Chapter 10: “God’s Laws of Productivity”
• Chapter 11: Meaning-Making and Religious Experience
• Chapter 12: Teaching Origins to Pentecostal Students
• Appendix: Tables
• Contributors