Interdisciplinary and Religio-Cultural Discourses on a Spirit-Filled World Loosing the Spirits

by Kärkkäinen, Veli-Matti; Kim, Kirsteen; Yong, Amos

• ISBN13: 9781137268983
• ISBN10: 1137268980
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-09-12
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This volume presents interdisciplinary, intercultural, and interreligious approaches exploring a pneumatological theology in its broadest sense, especially in attempting to conceive of a spirit-filled world. The authors seek to discern the spiritual dimensions in the wider domains of the history, culture, the polis, the cosmos, sciences, and religions. The essays are driven by an intuition: that pneumatological sensibilities, categories, and insights can both inform the construction of a more robust doctrine of the person and work of the Holy Spirit in the world and enable the appreciation that we inhabit what can rightly be called a Spirit- and spirit-filled world.

Author Biography

Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen is Professor of Systematic Theology, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California, and Docent of Ecumenics, University of Helsinki, Finland.

Kirsteen Kim is Professor of Theology and World Christianity at Leeds Trinity University College, UK.

Amos Yong is J. Rodman Williams Professor of Theology at Regent University School of Divinity, Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction: On Binding, amd Loosing, the Spirits: Navigating amd Engaging a Spirit-Filled World; Amos Yong
PART I: SPIRITS IN THEOLOGY AND RELIGION
1. The Spirit-world of the Bible: The Ambiguity of Inspiration and the Discernment the Spirits in Biblical and Early Jewish Traditions; John R. Levison 
2. Spirit and Spirits in Christian Theological Traditions; Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen
3. Speaking to the Wind: Spirits in African Traditional Religion; J. Kwabena Asamaoh-Gyadu
4. Spirits and Shintoism; Naoki Inoue
PART II: THE SPIRITS OF HISTORY AND CULTURE
5. Spirits in History; Patrick Oden
6. A Pluralistic Pneumatology of the Arts; Robert K. Johnston
7. Pneuma-kinesis and Stephen King: Beyond Psychokinetics in Parapsychology; Donnie W. Staggs
8. Zeitgeist: Spirit and Spirits in Postmodern Life; Emma Ineson
PART III: THE SPIRITS OF THE POLIS
9. Spirits of the Political; Sebastian Kim
10. Spirits and Economics; Nimi Wariboko
11. Talking Back, Acting Up: Wrestling with Spirits in Social Bodies; Bradford E. Hinze 
12. Driving Out Demons? Looking at Spirits in Inter-religious Encounter thru the Lens of Deliverance Ministry and Theology; Tony Richie 
PART IV: THE SPIRITS OF NATURE AND THE COSMOS
13. The Spirit in Evolution and Nature; Philip Clayton
14. Green and Chiological Pneumatologies: Nature, Ch'i, and Spirit; Koo Dong Yun
15. Christian Animism, Green Spirit Theology, and the Global Crisis today; Mark I. Wallace 
16. Vector Fields as the Spirit's Empirical Correlate: The Ubiquity of the Work of the Holy Spirit and the Logos; Erwin Morales
17. Spirits and the Stars: A Spirit-Filled Cosmology?; David Bradnick 
Conclusion: The Holy Spirit in a Spirit-filled World; Kirsteen Kim