Renewing the Church by the Spirit: Theological Education after Pentecost

Renewing the Church by the Spirit: Theological Education after Pentecost
ISBN-10
1467460338
ISBN-13
9781467460330
Category
Religion
Pages
166
Language
English
Published
2020-11-03
Publisher
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Author
Amos Yong

Description

In most parts of the world and especially where Christianity is flourishing, Pentecostal and charismatic movements predominate. What would it look like for the Western world—beset by the narrative of decline—to participate in this global Spirit-driven movement? According to Amos Yong, it all needs to start with the way we approach theological education. Renewing the Church by the Spirit makes the case for elevating pneumatology in Christian life, allowing the Spirit to reinvigorate church and mission. Yong shows how this approach would attend to both the rapidly deinstitutionalizing forms of twenty-first-century Christianity and the pressing need for authentic spiritual experiences that marks contemporary religious life. He begins with a broad assessment of our postmodern, post-Enlightenment, post-Christendom ecclesial context, before moving into a detailed outline of how a Spirit-filled approach to theological education—its curriculum, pedagogy, and scholarship—can meet the ecclesial and missional demands of this new age.

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