Paul Tillich and Pentecostal Theology: Spiritual Presence and Spiritual Power

✍ Scribed by Nimi Wariboko and Amos Yong (eds.)

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 266
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Paul Tillich (1886–1965) is widely regarded as one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century. By bringing his thought together with the theology and practices of an important contemporary Christian movement, Pentecostalism, this volume provokes active, productive, critical, and creative dialogue with a broad range of theological topics. These essays stimulate robust conversation, engage on common ground regarding the work of the Holy Spirit, and offer significant insights into the universal concerns of Christian theology and, Paul Tillich and his legacy.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Preface
Introduction: Why Is the “Correlation” between Paul Tillich and Pentecostal Theology Important, and Who Cares?
1. Spiritual Power and Spiritual Presence: The Contemporary Renaissance in Pneumatology in Light of a Dialogue between Pentecostal Theology and Tillich
2. Spirit and Nature: Pentecostal Pneumatology in Dialogue with Tillich’s Pneumatological Ontology
3. To the Ground of Being and Beyond: Toward a Pentecostal Engagement with Ontology
4. God as Being and Trinity: Pentecostal-Tillichian Interrogations
5. Tillich’s Picture of Jesus as the Christ: Toward a Theology of the Spirit’s Saving Presence
6. Spiritual Presence: The Role of Pneumatology in Paul Tillich’s Theology
7. Pneumatological Participation: Embodiment, Sacramentality, and the Multidimensional Unity of Life
8. Tillich’s Sacramental Spirituality in a New Key: A Feminist Pentecostal Proposal
9. Political Theology from Tillich to Pentecostalism in Africa
10. What Have Pentecostals to Do with “The Religion of the Concrete Spirit”? Tillich’s Theology of Religions in Twenty-First Century Global Renewal Context
11. The Demonic from the Protestant Era to the Pentecostal Era: An Intersection of Tillichian and Pentecostal Demonologies and Its Implications
12. Eschatology in the Theology of Paul Tillich and the Toronto Blessing: The Ontological and Relational Implications of Love
13. Paul Tillich, Pentecostalism, and the Early Frankfurt School: A Critical Constellation
Responses
14. Socialist Spirit in Tillich, Pentecostalism, and the Neoliberal Demonic Today
15. A Spirited Encounter: The Promise of Ecstasis and the Constraints of Supranaturalism
List of Contributors
Index
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