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Amos Yong

Dean of the School of Divinity
J. Rodman Williams Professor of Theology

Email: ayong@regent.edu
Phone: 757.352.4412

Education

  • Ph.D., Boston University
  • M.A., Portland State University
  • M.A., Western Evangelical Seminary
  • B.A., Bethany College

Courses Taught

  • Theology in Global Context
  • Renewal Theological Method
  • Systematic Theology
  • Theology, Disability & the Church
  • Renewal & Science
  • Teaching Practicum

Research Interests

I would welcome working with doctoral students in these and related areas.

Published Books

  • Spirit of Love: A Trinitarian Theology of Grace (Waco, Tex.: Baylor University Press, 2012). xviii + 228 pp. [ISBN 1602583269]
  • Editor, with Matthew T. Lee, The Science and Theology of Godly Love (DeKalb, Ill., Northern Illinois University Press, 2012). vi + 237 pp. [Hardcover ISBN 9780875804491]
  • Editor, with Matthew T. Lee, Godly Love: Impediments and Possibilities (Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2012). xi + 233 pp. [Cloth ISBN 978-0-7391-6787-8, electronic ISBN 9780739167885]
  • Pneumatology and the Christian-Buddhist Dialogue, Does the Spirit Blow through the Middle Way? Studies in Systematic Theology 11 (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012). xx + 301 pp. [Hardcover ISBN 9004231177].
  • The Cosmic Breath: Spirit and Nature in the Christianity-Buddhism-Science Trialogue, Philosophical Studies in Science & Religion 4 (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012). xv + 282 pp. [Hardcover ISBN 9004205130].
  • Editor, with Katherine Attanasi, Pentecostalism and Prosperity: The Socioeconomics of the Global Charismatic Movement, Christianities of the World 1 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). xv + 261 pp. [ISBN 0230338283]
  • The Bible, Disability, and the Church: A New Vision of the People of God (Grand Rapids and Cambridge, UK: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2011). [ISBN 0802866080]
  • The Spirit of Creation: Modern Science and Divine Action in the Pentecostal-Charismatic Imagination,Pentecostal Manifestos 4 (Grand Rapids and Cambridge, UK: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2011). [ISBN 0802866127]
  • Who is the Holy Spirit? A Walk with the Apostles (Brewster, Mass.: Paraclete Press, 2011). [ISBN 1557256355]
  • Editor, with Estrelda Alexander, Afro-Pentecostalism: Black Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity in History and Culture, Religion, Race, and Ethnicity Series (New York: New York University Press, 2011). [ISBN 978-0814797310]
  • Editor, with Clifton Clarke, Global Renewal, Religious Pluralism, and the Great Commission: Toward a Renewal Theology of Mission and Interreligious Encounter. Asbury Theological Seminary Series in World Christian Revitalization Movements in Pentecostal/Charismatic Studies 4. Lexington, Ky.: Emeth Press, 2011. [ISBN 0981958286]
  • In the Days of Caesar: Pentecostalism and Political Theology – The Cadbury Lectures 2009. Sacra Doctrina: Christian Theology for a Postmodern Age series. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2010. [ISBN 0802864062]
  • Editor, with James K. A. Smith, Science and the Spirit: A Pentecostal Engagement with the Sciences. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2010. [ISBN hardback 0253355168, paperback 0253222273]
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  • Editor, with Barbara Brown Zikmund, Remembering Jamestown: Hard Questions about Christian Mission. Eugene, Ore.: Pickwick Publications, 2010. (ISBN 1608991969)
  • Editor, The Spirit Renews the Face of the Earth: Pentecostal Forays in Science and Theology of Creation. Eugene, Ore.: Pickwick Press, 2009. [ISBN 1606081969]
  • Editor, with Estrelda Alexander, Philip’s Daughters: Women in Pentecostal-Charismatic Leadership. Princeton Theological Monographs Series 104. Eugene, Ore.: Pickwick Publications, 2009. [ISBN 1556358326]
  • Guest editor, "Pentecostalism, Science, & Creation: New Voices in the Theology-Science Conversation," a collection of six articles in Zygon: Journal of Science and Religion 43:4 (2008): 875-989.
  • Hospitality and the Other: Pentecost, Christian Practices, and the Neighbor, Faith Meets Faith Series. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2008. [ISBN 1570757723]
  • Theology and Down Syndrome: Reimagining Disability in Late Modernity. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2007. [ISBN 1602580065]
  • The Spirit Poured Out on All Flesh: Pentecostalism and the Possibility of Global Theology. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2005. [ISBN 0801027705]
  • Editor, with Peter Heltzel, Theology in Global Context: Essays in Honor of Robert Cummings Neville. New York and London: T & T Clark, 2004. [ISBN 0567026906]
  • Beyond the Impasse: Toward a Pneumatological Theology of Religions. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2003. [ISBN 0801026121]
  • Editor, Toward a Pneumatological Theology: Pentecostal and Ecumenical Perspectives on Ecclesiology, Soteriology and Theology of Mission. By Veli-Mati Karkkainen. Lanham, New York, and Oxford: University Press of America, 2002. [ISBN 0761823891]
  • Spirit-Word-Community: Theological Hermeneutics in Trinitarian Perspective. New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies Series. Burlington, Vt., and Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2002. ISBN 0754605418. Reprint, Eugene, Ore.: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2002. [ISBN 1597525502]
  • Discerning the Spirit(s): A Pentecostal-Charismatic Contribution to Christian Theology of Religions. Journal of Pentecostal Theology Supplement Series 20. Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000. [ISBN 1841271330]

Published Chapters and Journal Articles

  • "Whence and Whither in Evangelical Higher Education? Dispatches from a Shifting Frontier," Christian Scholar's Review 42:2 (2013): 179-92.
  • "Pentecostal and Charismatic Theology" in James Beilby and Chad Meister, eds., The Routledge Companion to Modern Christian Thought (New York and London: Routledge, 2013), 636-46.
  • "Science and the (Super) Natural: Can Pentecostals Mediate any Conversation?" Australasian Pentecostal Studies 15:1 (2013): [http://webjournals.ac.edu.au/journals/aps/issue-15/].
  • "Toward a Relational Apologetics in Global Context: A Review Essay on Benno van den Toren's Christian Apologetics as Cross-Cultural Dialogue," Philosophia Christi 14:2 (2012): 437-45.
  • "Guests of Religious Others: Theological Education in the Pluralistic World," Theological Education 47:1 (2012): 75-83
  • "Relational Theology and the Holy Spirit," in Brint Montgomery, Thomas J. Oord, and Karen Strand Winslow, eds., Relational Theology: A Contemporary Introduction (San Diego: Point Loma Press, and Eugene, Ore.: Wipf & Stock, 2012), 18-20.
  • "Observation-Participation-Subjuctivation: Methodological Play and Meaning-Making in the Study of Religion and Theological Studies," Religious Studies and Theology 31:1 (2012): 17-40.
  • "Disability Theology of the Resurrection: Persisting Questions and Additional Considerations - A Response to Ryan Mullins," Ars Disputandi The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion 12 (2012): 5-10 [http://www.arsdisputandi.org/].
  • "Glocalization and the Gift-Giving Spirit: Informality and Shalom beyond the Political Economy of Exchange," Journal of Youngsan Theology 25 (2012): 7-29.
  • "Zacchaeus: Short and Un-Seen," in Christian Reflection: A Series in Faith and Ethics - Disability (Waco, Tex.: The Center for Christian Ethics at Baylor University, 2012), 11-17; available online at http://www.baylor.edu/christianethics/index.php?id=92614.
  • "The Spirit, Vocation, and the Life of the Mind: A Pentecostal Testimony," in Steven M. Fettke and Robby Waddell, eds., Pentecostals in the Academy: Testimonies of Call (Cleveland, Tenn.: CPT Press, 2012), 203-20.
  • "Speaking in Scientific Tongues: Which Spirit/s, What Interpretations?" Canadian Journal of Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity 3:1 (2012): 130-39 [https://journal.twu.ca/index.php/CJPC/issue/view/7].
  • "Sanctification, Science, and the Spirit: Salvaging Holiness in the Late Modern World," Wesleyan Theological Journal 47:2 (2012): 36-52.
  • "Francis X Clooney's 'Dual Religious Belonging' and the Comparative Theological Enterprise: Engaging Hindu Traditions," Dharma Deepika: A South Asian Journal of Missiological Research 16:1 (2012): 6-26.
  • "The Virtues and Intellectual Disability: Explorations in the (Cognitive) Sciences of Moral Formation," in James Van Slyke, Gregory R. Peterson, Kevin S. Reimer, Michael L. Spezio, and Warren S. Brown, eds., Theology and the Science of Moral Action: Virtue Ethics, Exemplarity, and Cognitive Neuroscience, Routledge Studies in Religion 21 (New York and London: Routledge, 2012), 191-208.
  • "The Holy Spirit, the Middle Way, and the Religions: A Pentecostal Inquiry in a Pluralistic World," in Evangelical Interfaith Dialogue 2:2 (spring 2012): 4-15 and 25-26 [http://www.evangelicalinterfaith.com/], and New Life Theological Journal 2:1 (2012): 8-25.
  • "What's Love Got to Do with It? The Sociology of Love and the Renewal of Modern Pentecostalism," Journal of Pentecostal Theology 21:1 (2012): 113-34.
  • “Informality, Illegality, and Improvisation: Theological Reflections on Money, Migration, and Ministry in Chinatown, NYC, and Beyond,” Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion 3:2 (2012) [http://www.raceandreligion.com/JRER/Volume_3_%282012%29.html].
  • “Pentecostalism and Science: Challenges and Opportunities,” in David R. Bundrick and Steve Badger, eds., Proceedings of the Inaugural Faith and Science Conference, Springfield, Missouri, June 27-28, 2011 (Springfield, Mo.: Gospel Publishing House, 2012), 133-47.
  • “The Wide, Wide World of the Holy Spirit: A Rejoinder to Jack Levison,” Journal of the European Pentecostal Theological Association 32:1 (2012): 10-12.
  • “Conclusion,” in Matthew T. Lee and Amos Yong, eds., The Science and Theology of Godly Love (DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2012), 217-32.
  • “Introduction: Godly Love – What It Is and Why Is There Not More of It Around? An Interdisciplinary Exploration,” in Matthew T. Lee and Amos Yong, eds., Godly Love: Impediments and Possibilities (Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2012), 1-19.
  • “What’s Love Got to Do with It? The Sociology of Love and the Renewal of Modern Pentecostalism,” Journal of Pentecostal Theology 21:1 (2012): 113-34.
  • “Asian American Evangelical Theology,” in Jeffrey Greenman and Gene L. Green, eds., Global Theology in Evangelical Perspective: Exploring the Contextual Nature of Theology and Mission (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2012), 195-209.
  • “A Typology of Prosperity Theology: A Religious Economy of Global Renewal or a Renewal Economics?” in Amos Yong and Katherine Attanasi, Pentecostalism and Prosperity: The Socioeconomics of the Global Charismatic Movement, Christianities of the World 1 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), 15-33.
  • “Sons and Daughters, Young and Old: Toward a Pentecostal Theology of the Family,” PentecoStudies: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Research on the Pentecostal & Charismatic Movements 10:2 (2011): 147-73.
  • “Primed for the Spirit: Creation, Redemption, and the Missio Spiritus,” International Review of Mission 100:2 (November 2011): 355-66.
  • “On Doing Theology and Buddhology: A Spectrum of Christian Proposals,” Buddhist-Christian Studies 31 (2011): 103-18.
  • “Ignorance, Knowledge, and Omniscience: At and Beyond the Limits of Faith and Reason after Shinran,” Buddhist-Christian Studies 31 (2011): 201-10.
  • “Disability from the Margins to the Center: Hospitality and Inclusion in the Church,” Journal of Religion, Disability, and Health 15:4 (2011): 339-50; reprinted in Bert Roebben, ed., Inclusive Religious Education: International Perspectives (Münster: LIT Verlag, 2012), forthcoming.
  • “Disability,” in Glen G. Scorgie, ed., Zondervan Dictionary of Christian Spirituality (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2011), 403-404.
  • “The Emerging Field of World Christianity: A Renewal Reading of the Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity,” The Journal of World Christianity 4:1 (2011): 27-43 [http://www.journalofworldchristianity.org/index.php/jowc/issue/view/13/showToc].
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  • “The Spirit of Science: Are Pentecostals Ready to Engage the Discussion?” Cyberjournal for Pentecostal/ Charismatic Research 20 (April 2011) [http://pctii.org/cyberj/cyber20.html].
  • With Estrelda Y. Alexander, “Introduction: Black Tongues of Fire – Afro-Pentecostalism’s Shifting Strategies and Changing Discourses,” in Amos Yong and with Estrelda Alexander, eds., Afro-Pentecostalism: Black Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity in History and Culture (New York: New York University Press, 2011), 1-18.
  • “Reading Scripture and Nature: Pentecostal Hermeneutics and Their Implications for the Contemporary Evangelical Theology and Science Conversation,” Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 53:1 (2011): 1-13.
  • Finding the Holy Spirit at the Christian University: Renewal and the Future of Higher Education in the Pentecostal-Charismatic Tradition,” in Vinson Synan, ed., Spirit-Empowered Christianity in the 21st Century: Insights, Analyses, and Future Trends (Lake Mary, Fla.: Charisma House, 2011), 455-76 and 577-87.
  • “Conclusion From Demonization to Kin-domization: The Witness of the Spirit and the Renewal of Missionsin a Pluralistic World,” in Amos Yong and Clifton Clarke, eds., Global Renewal, Religious Pluralism, and the Great Commission: Toward a Renewal Theology of Mission and Interreligious Encounter, Asbury Theological Seminary Series in World Christian Revitalization Movements in Pentecostal/Charismatic Studies 4 (Lexington, Ky.: Emeth Press, 2011), 157-74.
  • “Science and Religion: Introducing the Issues, Entering the Debates – A Review Essay,” Christian Scholar’s Review 40:2 (2011): 189-203.
  • “The Church and Mission Theology in a Post-Constantinian Era: Soundings from the Anglo-American Frontier," in Akintunde E. Akinade, ed., A New Day: Essays on World Christianity in Honor of Lamin Sanneh (New York: Peter Lang, 2010), 49-61.
  • With John Sobert Sylvest, “Reasons and Values of the Heart in a Pluralistic World: Toward a Contemplative Phenomenology for Interreligious Dialogue,” Studies in Interreligious Dialogue 20:2 (2010): 170-93.
  • “Toward a Pneumatological Theology of Religions,” in David R. Brockman and Ruben L. F. Habito, eds., The Gospel among Religions: Christian Ministry, Theology, and Spirituality in a Multifaith World (Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2010), 215-17.
  • “Charismatic and Pentecostal Movements in Asia,” in Daniel Patte, ed., Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 190-91.
  • With Tony Richie, “Missiology and the Interreligious Encounter,” in Allan Anderson, Michael Bergunder, André Droogers, and Cornelis van der Laan, eds., Studying Global Pentecostalism: Theories and Methods (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2010), 245-67.
  • With Lewis Brogdon, "The Decline of African American Theology? A Critical Response to Thabiti Anyabwile," Journal of Reformed Theology 4:2 (2010): 129-44.
  • With James K. A. Smith, "Introduction: Science and the Spirit – Questions and Possibilities in the Pentecostal Engagement with Science," in Amos Yong and James K. A. Smith, eds., Science and the Spirit: A Pentecostal Engagement with the Sciences (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010), 1-11.
  • "How Does God Do What God Does? Pentecostal-Charismatic Perspectives on Divine Action in Dialogue with Modern Science," in Amos Yong and James K. A. Smith, eds., Science and the Spirit: A Pentecostal Engagement with the Sciences (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2010), 50-71.
  • "The Trans/formation of Dust: R. D. Hughes' Pneumatological Theology of the Spiritual Life in Pentecostal Perspective," Sewanee Theological Review 53:3 (2010): 345-58.
  • "Many Tongues, Many Practices: Pentecost and Theology of Mission at 2010," in Ogbu U. Kalu, Edmund Kee-Fook Chia, and Peter Vethanayagamony, eds., Mission after Christendom: Emergent Themes in Contemporary Mission (Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 2010), 43-58, 160-63.
  • "Conclusion: The Missiology of Jamestown: 1607-2007 and Beyond – Toward a Postcolonial Theology of Mission in North America," in Amos Yong and Barbara Brown Zikmund, eds., Remembering Jamestown: Hard Questions about Christian Mission (Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2010), 157-67.
  • "Disability and the Gifts of the Spirit: Pentecost and the Renewal of the Church," Journal of Pentecostal Theology 19:1 (spring 2010): 76-93.
  • "Salvation, Society, and the Spirit: Pentecostal Contextualization and Political Theology from Cleveland to Birmingham, from Springfield to Seoul," Pax Pneuma: The Journal of Pentecostals & Charismatics for Peace & Justice 5:2 (2009): 22-34.
  • "From Azusa Street to the Bo Tree and Back: Strange Babblings and Interreligious Interpretations in the Pentecostal Encounter with Buddhism," in Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, ed., The Spirit in the World: Emerging Pentecostal Theologies in Global Contexts (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2009), 203-26.
  • "Many Tongues, Many Senses: Pentecost, the Body Politic, and the Redemption of Dis/Ability," PNEUMA: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 31:2 (2009): 167-88.
  • "Disability and the Love of Wisdom: De-forming, Re-forming, and Per-forming Philosophy of Religion," Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion 9 (2009): 54-71 [http://www.arsdisputandi.org/publish/articles/000324/index.html].
  • "Restoring, Reforming, Renewing: Accompaniments to The Cambridge Companion to Evangelical Theology," Evangelical Review of Theology 33:2 (2009): 179-83.
  • "The Spirit at Work in the World: A Pentecostal-Charismatic Perspective on the Divine Action Project," Theology & Science 7:2 (2009): 123-40.
  • "Poured Out on All Creation!? Searching for the Spirit in the Pentecostal Encounter with Science," in Amos Yong, ed., Spirit, Grace, and Creation: Pentecostal Forays into Theology and Science (Eugene, Ore.: Pickwick Press, 2009), xi-xxiii.
  • "'The Light Shines in the Darkness': Johannine Dualism and the Challenge of Christian Theology of Religions Today," Journal of Religion 89:1 (2009): 31-56.
  • "Natural Laws and Divine Intervention in Theology and Science: What Difference Does Being Pentecostal or Charismatic Make?" Zygon: Journal of Science and Religion 43:4 (2008): 961-89.
  • "Between the Local and the Global: Autobiographical Reflections on the Emergence of the Global Theological Mind," in Darren C. Marks, ed., Shaping a Global Theological Mind (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2008), 187-94.
  • "Discernment, Discerning of Spirits," in William Dyrness and Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, et al., eds., Global Dictionary of Theology (Downers Grove: Intervarsity Press, 2008), 232-35.
  • With Samuel Zalanga, "What Empire? Which Multitude? Pentecostalism & Social Liberation in North America & Sub-Saharan Africa," in Bruce Ellis Benson and Peter Goodwin Heltzel, eds., Evangelicals and Empire: Christian Alternatives to the Political Status Quo (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2008), 237-51.
  • "Mind and Life, Religion and Science: The Dalai Lama and the Buddhist-Christian-Science Trilogue," Buddhist-Christian Studies 28 (2008): 43-63.
  • "Tibetan Buddhism Going Global? A Case Study of a Contemporary Buddhist Encounter with Science," Journal of Global Buddhism 9 (2008) [http://www.globalbuddhism.org/].
  • "Guests, Hosts, and the Holy Ghost: Pneumatological Theology and Christian Practices in a World of Many Faiths," in David H. Jensen, ed., Lord and Giver of Life: Perspectives on Constructive Pneumatology (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008), 71-86.
  • "The Buddhist-Christian Encounter in the USA: Reflections on Christian Practices," in Ulrich van der Heyden and Andreas Feldtkeller, eds., Border Crossings: Explorations of an Interdisciplinary Historian – Festschrift for Irving Hexham (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2008), 457-72.
  • "The Inviting Spirit: Pentecostal Beliefs and Practices regarding the Religions Today," in Steven Studebaker, ed., Defining Issues in Pentecostalism: Classical and Emergent (Eugene, Ore.: Wipf & Stock, 2008), 29-44.
  • "Divining ‘Divine Action’ in Theology-and-Science: A Review Essay," Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 43:1 (2008): 191-200.
  • "Whither Asian American Evangelical Theology? What Asian? Which American? Whose Evangelion?" Evangelical Review of Theology 32:1 (2008): 22-37.
  • "Extending the Conversation: A Response to Fredrick L. Ware," Journal of the European Pentecostal Theological Association 28:1 (2008): 84-93.
  • "The Spirit, Christian Practices, and the Religions: Theology of Religions in Pentecostal and Pneumatological Perspective," Asbury Journal 62:2 (2007): 5-31.
  • "Culture" and "Syncretism," in John Corrie, ed., Dictionary of Mission Theology: Evangelical Foundations (Nottingham, UK, and Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2007), 82-87 and 373-76 respectively.
  • "Beyond the Liberal-Conservative Divide: An Appreciative Rejoinder to Allan Anderson," Journal of Pentecostal Theology 16:1 (2007): 103-11.
  • "The Future of Evangelical Theology: Asian and Asian American Interrogations," The Asia Journal of Theology 21:2 (October 2007): 371-97.
  • "The Future of Asian Pentecostal Theology: An Asian American Assessment,” Asian Journal of Pentecostal Studies 10:1 (2007): 22-41.
  • Wesley and Fletcher – Dayton and Wood: Appreciating Wesleyan-Holiness Tongues, Essaying Pentecostal-Charismatic Interpretations,” in Christian T. Collins Winn, ed., From the Margins: A Celebration of the Theological Work of Donald W. Dayton (Eugene, Ore.: Pickwick Press, 2007), 179-90.
  • "Trinh Thuan and the Intersection of Science and Buddhism: A Review Essay," Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 42:3 (September 2007): 677-84.
  • "Pentecostalism and the Theological Academy," Theology Today 64:2 (2007): 244-50.
  • "God and the Evangelical Laboratory: Recent Conservative Protestant Thinking about Theology and Science," Theology & Science 5:2 (2007): 203-21.
  • "Disability, the Human Condition, and the Spirit of the Eschatological Long Run: Toward a Pneumatological Theology of Disability," Journal of Religion, Disability, and Health 11:1 (2007): 5-25.
  • "Radical, Reformed, and Pentecostal: Rethinking the Intersection of Post/Modernity and the Religions in Conversation with James K. A. Smith," Journal of Pentecostal Theology 15:2 (2007): 233-50.
  • "The Spirit of Hospitality: Pentecostal Perspectives toward a Performative Theology of the Interreligious Encounter," Missiology: An International Review 35:1 (2007): 55-73.
  • "Can We Get 'Beyond the Paradigm' in Christian Theology of Religions? A Response to Terry Muck," Interpretation 61:1 (January 2007): 28-32.
  • "Poured Out on All Flesh: The Spirit, World Pentecostalism, and the Performance of Renewal Theology," PentecoStudies: Online Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Pentecostalism and Charismatic Movements 6:1 (2007): 16-46 [http://www.glopent.net/pentecostudies].
  • "Ruach, the Primordial Waters, and the Breath of Life: Emergence Theory and the Creation Narratives in Pneumatological Perspective," in Michael Welker, ed., The Work of the Spirit: Pneumatology and Pentecostalism (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006), 183-204.
  • "Spirit, Mission, and the Religions: Toward a P(new)matological/Pentecostal Theology of Religions," in Bob Brenneman, W. R. Brookman, and Nan Muhovich, eds., Java and Justice: Journeys in  Pentecostal Missions Education (Minneapolis: North Central University Press, 2006), 91-111.
  • "The Church is Charismatic," in William Madges and Michael J. Daley, eds., The Many Marks of the Church (Mystic, Conn.: Twenty-Third Publications, 2006), 85-89.
  • "Justice Deprived, Justice Demanded: Afropentecostalisms and the Task of World Pentecostal Theology Today," Journal of Pentecostal Theology 15:1 (2006): 127-47.
  • "Performing Global Pentecostal Theology: A Response to Wolfgang Vondey," PNEUMA: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 28:2 (2006): 313-21.
  • "Asian American Religion: A Review Essay," Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 9:3 (2006): 92-107.
  • "Whither Evangelical Theology? The Work of Veli-Matti Karkkainen as a Case Study of Contemporary Trajectories," Evangelical Review of Theology 30:1 (2006): 60-85.
  • "Ordinances and Sacraments," in Stanley M. Burgess, ed., Encyclopedia of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity (New York: Routledge/Berkshire, 2006), 345-48.
  •  "The Spirit and Creation: Possibilities and Challenges for a Dialogue between Pentecostal Theology and the Sciences," in Journal of the European Pentecostal Theological Association 25 (2005): 82-110.
  • "Discerning the Spirit(s) in the Natural World: Toward a Typology of 'Spirit' in the Theology and Science Conversation," Theology & Science 3:3 (2005): 315-29.
  • "Academic Glossolalia? Pentecostal Scholarship, Multi-disciplinarity, and the Science-Religion Conversation," Journal of Pentecostal Theology 14:1 (2005): 63-82.
  • "A P(new)matological Paradigm for Christian Mission in a Religiously Plural World," Missiology: An International Review 33:2 (2005): 175-91.
  • "Christian and Buddhist Perspectives on Neuropsychology and the Human Person: Pneuma and Pratityasamutpada," Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 40:1 (2005): 143-65.
  • "Significant Turns in Contemporary Theology of Religions," Theology News and Notes 52:1 (Winter 2005): 4-6 and 22.
  • "The Demonic in Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity and in the Religious Consciousness of Asia," in Allan Anderson and Edmond Tang, eds., Asian and Pentecostal: The Charismatic Face of Christianity in Asia (London: Regnum International, and Baguio City, Philippines: Asia Pacific Theological Seminary Press, 2005), 93-127.
  • "From Quantum Mechanics to the Eucharistic Meal: John Polkinghorne's Vision of Science and Theology," in The Global Spiral: A Publication of Metanexus Institute 5:5 (2005).
  • "The Hermeneutical Trialectic: Notes toward Consensual Hermeneutic and Theological Method," Heythrop Journal 45:1 (2004): 22-39.
  • "The Spirit Bears Witness: Pneumatology, Truth & the Religions," Scottish Journal of Theology 57:1 (2004): 14-38.
  • "Rapture," in Hans J. Hillerbrand, ed., The Encyclopedia of Protestantism, 4 vols. (New York: Routledge, 2004), 3.1590-91.
  • With Peter Heltzel, "Robert Cummings Neville and Theology's Global Future," in Yong and Heltzel, eds., Theology in Global Context: Essays in Honor of Robert Cummings Neville (New York and London: T & T Clark, 2004), 29-42.
  • "Beyond Beyond the Impasse: Responding to Dale Irvin," Journal of Pentecostal Theology 12:2 (2004): 281-85.
  • "Spiritual Discernment: A Biblical-Theological Reconsideration," in Wonsuk Ma and Robert P. Menzies, eds., The Spirit and Spirituality: Essays in Honour of Russell P. Spittler, Journal of Pentecostal Theology Supplemental Series 24 (London and New York: T & T Clark, 2004), 83-104.
  • "'The Spirit Hovers over the World': Toward a Typology of 'Spirit' in the Religion and Science Dialogue," The Global Spiral: A Publication of Metanexus Institute 4:12 (2004).
  • "Spirit Possession, the Living, and the Dead: A Review Essay and Response from a Pentecostal Perspective," in Dharma Deepika: A South Asian Journal of Missiological Research 8:2 (2004): 77-88.
  • "Looking Back, Leaping Ahead: A Short Review Essay on 'The Complete Azusa Street Library', Part I," in PNEUMA: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 26:2 (2004): 400-405.
  • "The Holy Spirit and the World Religions: On the Christian Discernment of Spirit(s) 'after' Buddhism," Buddhist-Christian Studies 24 (2004): 191-207.
  • With Paul Elbert, "Christianity, Pentecostalism: Issues in Science and Religion," in J. Wentzel van Huysteen, gen. ed., Encyclopedia of Science and Religion, 2 vols. (New York: Macmillan Reference Library, 2003), I: 132-35.
  • "Technologies of Liberation: A Comparative Soteriology of Eastern Orthodoxy and Theravada Buddhism," Dharma Deepika: A South Asian Journal of Missiological Research 7:1 (2003): 17-60.
  • "'As the Spirit Gives Utterance...': Pentecost, Intra-Christian Ecumenism, and the Wider Oekumene," International Review of Mission 92:366 (July 2003): 299-314.
  • "Divine Knowledge and Relation to Time," in Thomas Jay Oord, ed., Philosophy of Religion: Introductory Essays (Kansas City, Mo.: Beacon Hill Press/Nazarene Publishing House, 2003), 136-52.
  • With Frank D. Macchia, Ralph Del Colle and Dale T. Irvin, "Christ and Spirit: Dogma, Discernment and Dialogical Theology in a Religiously Plural World," Journal of Pentecostal Theology 12:1 (2003): 15-83.
  • "A Theology of the Third Article? Hegel and the Contemporary Enterprise in First Philosophy and First Theology," in Stanley E. Porter and Anthony R. Cross, eds., Semper Reformandum: Studies in Honour of Clark H. Pinnock (Carlisle, UK: Paternoster Press, 2003), 208-31.
  • "The Marks of the Church: A Pentecostal Re-Reading," Evangelical Review of Theology 26:1 (January 2002): 45-67.
  • "Going Where the Spirit Goes...: Engaging the Spirit(s) in J. C. Ma's Pneumatological Missiology," Journal of Pentecostal Theology 10:2 (April 2002): 110-28.
  • Editor's Introduction, "Pentecostalism and a Theology of the Third Article," to Veli-Matti Karkkainen, Toward a Pneumatological Theology: Pentecostal and Ecumenical Perspectives on Ecclesiology, Soteriology and Theology of Mission (Lanham, Boston, and New York: University Press of America, 2002), xi-xviii.
  • "Divine Knowledge and Future Contingents: Weighing the Presuppositional Issues in the Contemporary Debate," Evangelical Review of Theology 26:3 (2002): 240-64.
  • "In Search of Foundations: The Oeuvre of Donald L. Gelpi, S.J., and Its Significance for Pentecostal Theology and Philosophy," Journal of Pentecostal Theology 11:1 (2002): 3-26.
  • "The 'Baptist Vision' of James William McClendon, Jr.: A Wesleyan-Pentecostal Response," Wesleyan Theological Journal 37:2 (Fall 2002): 32-57.
  • "The Word and the Spirit, or the Spirit and the Word? Exploring the Boundaries of Evangelicalism in Relationship to Modern Pentecostalism," Trinity Journal 23NS:2 (2002): 235-52.
  • "Pentecostalism and Ecumenism: Past, Present, and Future," The Pneuma Review, 5-part article. Part I, 4:1 (2001): 6-15; Part II, 4:2 (2001): 36-48; Part III, 4:3 (2001): 16-27; Part IV, 4:4 (2001): 50-57; Part V, 5:1 (2002): 29-38.
  • "Possibility and Actuality: The Doctrine of Creation and Its Implications for Divine Omniscience," The Wesleyan Philosophical Society Online Journal 1:1 (2001).
  • "Discerning the Spirit(s) in the World of Religions: Toward a Pneumatological Theology of Religions," in John G. Stackhouse, Jr., ed., No Other Gods Before Me? Evangelicals and the Challenge of World Religions (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 2001), 37-61.
  • "Between Two Extremes: Balancing Word-Christianity and Spirit-Christianity (A Review Article)," The Pneuma Review 3:1 (Winter 2000): 78-83.
  • "The Demise of Foundationalism and the Retention of Truth: What Evangelicals Can Learn from C. S. Peirce," Christian Scholar's Review 29:3 (Spring 2000): 563-88.
  • "On Divine Presence and Divine Agency: Toward a Foundational Pneumatology," Asian Journal of Pentecostal Studies 3:2 (July 2000): 167-88.
  • "'Not Knowing Where the Spirit Blows…': On Envisioning a Pentecostal-Charismatic Theology of Religions," Journal of Pentecostal Theology 14 (April 1999): 81-112.
  • "Whither Theological Inclusivism? The Development and Critique of an Evangelical Theology of Religions," The Evangelical Quarterly 71:4 (October 1999): 327-48.
  • "To See or Not to See: A Review Essay of Michael Palmer's Elements of a Christian Worldview," PNEUMA: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 21:2 (Fall 1999): 305-27.
  • "Whither Systematic Theology? A Systematician Chimes in on a Scandalous Conversation," PNEUMA: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 20:1 (Spring 1998): 85-93.
  • "Tongues of Fire in the Pentecostal Imagination: The Truth of Glossolalia in Light of R. C. Neville's Theory of Religious Symbolism," Journal of Pentecostal Theology, Issue 12 (April 1998): 39-65.
  • "The Truth of Tongues Speech: A Rejoinder to Frank Macchia," Journal of Pentecostal Theology, Issue 13 (October 1998): 107-15.
  • "What Has Jerusalem to do with Nairobi, Lagos, Accra, or Rio? Religion and Theology in Africa and Afro-America (A Review Essay)," Koinonia: The Princeton Seminary Graduate Forum 10:2 (1998): 216-27.
  • "Personal Selfhood(?) and Human Experience in Whitehead's Philosophy of Organism," Paideia Project: Proceedings of the 20 th World Congress of Philosophy (1998).
  • "The Turn to Pneumatology in Christian Theology of Religions: Conduit or Detour?", Journal of Ecumenical Studies 35:3-4 (1998): 437-54.
  • "'Tongues', Theology, and the Social Sciences: A Pentecostal-Theological Reading of Geertz's Interpretive Theory of Religion," Cyberjournal for Pentecostal/ Charismatic Research 1 (January 1997).
  • "Oneness and the Trinity: The Theological and Ecumenical Implications of 'Creation Ex Nihilo' for an Intra-Pentecostal Dispute," PNEUMA: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 19:1 (Spring 1997): 81-107.

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