Beyond the Impasse: Toward a Pneumatological Theology of Religions

by Amos Yong

Publisher:

Wipf and Stock

, 2014

Overview

With scholarly rigor and intellectual acumen, Beyond the Impasse takes seriously and appreciatively the diversity of the work of the universal Spirit in the cultures and religious communities of the world. Amos Yong positions his work fully within the evangelical tradition, but is richly informed by his Pentecostal roots and context. He sets this Pentecostal-evangelical theology of religions in the center of the ongoing discussion, not only among evangelicals, but also in the whole church.

Contents

Top Highlights

“explore the possibility of a pneumatological approach to Christian theology of religions.” (Page 14)

“Axiom 1: God is universally present and active in the Spirit” (Page 44)

“While there are not an overwhelming number of references to these topics in the biblical canon, it is fair to conclude that religion and the religions are presented as being divinely providential on the one hand and yet demonically inspired to deceive and turn human beings away from the truth on the other.” (Page 36)

“Such a dialogue, of course, needs to steer between the Scylla of a monologistic, a prioristic, and colonialistic/imperialistic defining of religious others on the one hand, and the Charybdis of a syncretistic, (simply) empiricistic, and relativistic attitude on the other.” (Pages 19–20)

“To put it bluntly, only a genuinely pneumatological theology is a fully trinitarian theology. This is in part because Christians cannot speak of the Holy Spirit apart from either the First or the Second Persons of the Triune God.” (Page 42)

Product Details

• Title: Beyond the Impasse: Toward a Pneumatological Theology of Religions
• Author: Amos Yong
• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Print Publication Date: 2014
• Logos Release Date: 2018
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Theology of religions (Christian theology); Holy Spirit
• ISBNs: 9781498204651, 9780801026126, 9781842272084, 1498204651, 0801026121, 184227208X
• Resource ID: LLS:MPSSPNMTLGRLGNS
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T01:36:00Z

About Amos Yong

Amos Yong (PhD, Boston University) is professor of theology and mission and director of the Center for Missiological Research at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. He is the author or editor of over two dozen books, including Spirit of Love: A Trinitarian Theology of Grace, Afro-Pentecostalism: Black Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity in History and Culture (coedited with Estrelda Alexander), Science and the Spirit: A Pentecostal Engagement with the Sciences (coedited with James K. A. Smith) and The Spirit Poured Out on All Flesh: Pentecostalism and the Possibility of Global Theology. Yong is a member of the the American Academy of Religion, the Christian Theological Research Fellowship, and the Society for Pentecostal Studies. He is also a licensed minister with the General Council of the Assemblies of God.