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

Amos Yong

Eerdmans Publishing Company, May 17, 2011 - Religion - 237 pages

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.

About the author

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Spirit of Creation: Modern Science and Divine Action in the Pentecostal-Charismatic Imagination; Volume 4 of Pentecostal Manifestos
• Author: Amos Yong
• Publisher: Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2011
• ISBN: 0802866123, 9780802866127
• Length: 237 pages
• Subjects: Religion / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / General; Religion / Christian Church / General; Religion / Christian Theology / General; Religion / Christianity / Pentecostal & Charismatic; Religion / Religion & Science