The Spirit of Creation

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.

Amos Yong is J. Rodman Williams Professor of Theology at Regent University School of Divinity, Virginia Beach, Virginia. His other books include The Spirit Poured Out on All Flesh: Pentecostalism and the Possibility of Global Theology and In the Days of Caesar: Pentecostalism and Political Theology.

Preface	p. x
Permissions	p. xiii
The Pentecostal Encounter with Science - Whence and Whither?	p. 1
Pentecostalism and Modern Science: A Brief History of Their (Missed?) Engagement	p. 2
The Dialogue between Theology and Science: The Possibility of a Pentecostal Interjection?	p. 12
Science and Theology of Creation in Pentecostal Perspective: Thesis and Overview of the Book	p. 25
The Science of Pentecostalism: Spirit and Interdisciplinarity in Theology and Science	p. 34
The (Cognitive) Psychology of Pentecostalism: Many Tongues, Many Interpretations	p. 35
The Sociology of Pentecostalism: Social Deprivation, Secularization, and Routinization	p. 47
The Spirits of Pentecostalism: The Emergence of Methodological Pluralism in Theology and Science	p. 57
An Emergentist Anthropology	p. 58
The Emergence of Interdisciplinarity	p. 65
The Spirit at Work in the World: A Pentecostal Perspective on the Divine Action Project	p. 72
Divine Action in Pentecostal-Charismatic Perspective: Challenges and Possibilities	p. 73
The Divine Action Project: Science in Search of the Causal Joint	p. 77
The Eschatological Horizon: Christological Implications for Divine Action	p. 83
Toward a Pneumatological Theology of Eschatological Divine Action	p. 88
Resurrection and New Creation: Divine Action and the Holy Spirit	p. 89
The Eschatological Agency of the Holy Spirit: Pentecostal-Charismatic Perspectives	p. 92
The Work of the Spirit: An Eschatological-Teleological Model	p. 96
Natural Laws and Divine Redemption: Teleology, Eschatology, and the Activity of the Spirit	p. 102
The Laws of Nature: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives	p. 103
Miracles, Prayer, and Providence: Natural Laws and the Problem of Divine Action in Modern Theology	p. 112
Rethinking the Laws of Nature: A Dialogue with C. S. Peirce	p. 118
Miracles, the Laws of Nature, and the Eschaton: A Pneumatological and Teleological View of Divine Action	p. 125
Ruach over the Primordial Waters: A Pneumatological Theology of Emergence	p. 133
The Cosmic Story: The Standard Account in Emergentist Perspective	p. 135
Philip Clayton's Philosophy of Emergence	p. 144
A Canonical-Pneumatological Reading of the Creation Narratives	p. 151
The Spirit of Evolutionary Emergence and the Eschaton: A Teleological Account	p. 162
A Spirit-Filled Creation? Toward a Pneumatological Cosmology	p. 173
A Spirit-Filled World: Angels, Demons, and Spirits in the Pentecostal Imagination	p. 175
In Search of Spirits: What Might Research in Parapsychology Tell Us?	p. 184
Psi, Principalities, and Powers: The Emergence of a Spirit-Filled World	p. 196
Speculative Theses for a Pluralistic Cosmos	p. 207
Epilogue	p. 226
Name Index	p. 229
Subject Index	p. 231
Scripture Index	p. 235
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