Beyond Pentecostalism: The Crisis of Global Christianity and the Renewal of the Theological Agenda
Overview
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Christianity faces one of its greatest opportunities, as well as one of its greatest challenges—the formulation of a global theology. In Beyond Pentecostalism Wolfgang Vondey argues that Pentecostal thought and praxis represent an indispensable catalyst for the realization of this task. Accentuating Pentecostalism as a manifestation of what he calls the crisis of global Christianity, Vondey describes the elements of this crisis—manifested chiefly in theology’s turn toward a performance-oriented enterprise—and suggests that the task of overcoming the crisis demands an integration of Pentecostalism in the global theological agenda. This task will inevitably push Christianity beyond the boundaries of the classical Pentecostal tradition. In fact, Vondey suggests, Pentecostalism itself is in the process of going beyond its own historical, theological, socio-cultural, and institutional boundaries. His ultimate goal is not a “pentecostalization” of Christianity but rather a renewal of the theological landscape in light of the significance of Pentecostal voices, thoughts, and practices worldwide.
Top Highlights
“The Pentecostal imagination is thoroughly theological in character and, as such, nourishes the spiritual, liturgical, doctrinal, and ecclesial commitments of Pentecostals to the playground of the world and to the freedom of creation.” (Page 42)
“I suggest that Pentecostal thought and praxis function as indispensable catalysts for the development of global Christianity that Pentecostalism perpetuates at the cost of its own particularity.” (Page 2)
“The self-manifestation of God calls, in the first place, for an exercise not of reason but of the imagination.” (Page 17)
“the goal-oriented, performative, and productive mode of being that characterizes the late modern world” (Page 177)
“‘a performance tradition that reenacts the same drama in new ways’ (p. 235, italics in original).” (Page 36)
- Title: Beyond Pentecostalism: The Crisis of Global Christianity and the Renewal of the Theological Agenda
- Author: Wolfgang Vondey
- Series: Pentecostal Manifestos
- Publisher: Eerdmans
- Print Publication Date: 2010
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Pentecostalism; Pentecostal churches › Doctrines; Theology › History--21st century
- ISBNs: 9780802864017, 0802864015
- Resource ID: LLS:PENTECOSTALISM
- Resource Type: Monograph
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