The Spirit of Creation: Modern Science and Divine Action in the Pentecostal-Charismatic Imagination

by Amos Yong

Publisher:

Eerdmans

, 2011

Overview

Is a Pentecostal-charismatic worldview defensible in light of contemporary science? In The Spirit of Creation Amos Yong demonstrates that Pentecostal thought does indeed have merit in scientific contexts. What’s more, he argues that Pentecostal-charismatic views regarding the dynamic presence and activity of the Spirit of God and the pluralistic cosmology of many spirits have something important to add to the broad discussion now taking place at the crossroads of science and religion. Interacting with many scientific fields of study—including psychology, sociology, evolutionary science, cosmology, and more—Yong’s Spirit of Creation demonstrates the significance of Pentecostal ideas to the ongoing dialogue between theology and science.

Product Details

• Title: The Spirit of Creation: Modern Science and Divine Action in the Pentecostal-Charismatic Imagination
• Author: Amos Yong
• Series: Pentecostal Manifestos
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Print Publication Date: 2011
• Logos Release Date: 2016
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Religion and science; Pentecostalism › Doctrines
• ISBNs: 9780802866127, 0802866123
• Resource ID: LLS:SPIRITOFCREATION
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:05:29Z

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.