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In the Days of Caesar: Pentecostalism and Political Theology: The Cadbury Lectures 2009 is unavailable, but you can change that!

In the Days of Caesar is a constructive political theology formulated in sustained dialogue with Pentecostalism—one of the most vibrant religious movements at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Amos Yong here argues that the many tongues, practices, and gifts of Pentecostal Christianity can offer new resources to the larger Christian community as it seeks to engage and transform social,...

wider implications going far beyond the individual. In the remainder of this first section, we will discuss pentecostal salvation as deliverance unfolding in the economic and political arenas. To situate that discussion, however, we must understand how this distinctive soteriology of pentecostalism impacts family life as well as the larger community. Central to the pentecostal notion of salvation, especially in the global south, is the idea of deliverance understood in socio-cultural terms. There
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