Digital Logos Edition
With scholarly rigor and intellectual acumen, Beyond the Impasse takes seriously and appreciatively the diversity of the work of the universal Spirit in the cultures and religious communities of the world. Amos Yong positions his work fully within the evangelical tradition, but is richly informed by his Pentecostal roots and context. He sets this Pentecostal-evangelical theology of religions in the center of the ongoing discussion, not only among evangelicals, but also in the whole church.
“explore the possibility of a pneumatological approach to Christian theology of religions.” (Page 14)
“Axiom 1: God is universally present and active in the Spirit” (Page 44)
“While there are not an overwhelming number of references to these topics in the biblical canon, it is fair to conclude that religion and the religions are presented as being divinely providential on the one hand and yet demonically inspired to deceive and turn human beings away from the truth on the other.” (Page 36)
“Such a dialogue, of course, needs to steer between the Scylla of a monologistic, a prioristic, and colonialistic/imperialistic defining of religious others on the one hand, and the Charybdis of a syncretistic, (simply) empiricistic, and relativistic attitude on the other.” (Pages 19–20)
“To put it bluntly, only a genuinely pneumatological theology is a fully trinitarian theology. This is in part because Christians cannot speak of the Holy Spirit apart from either the First or the Second Persons of the Triune God.” (Page 42)
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