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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,...

political participation.9 For these pentecostals, then, the domain of politics is one from which they find themselves barred, unwanted, and without means of entry. Socio-economic and political marginalization thus translates into political non-involvement. Finally, perhaps most intriguing, is the research that has suggested how pentecostal spirituality and piety are somehow intrinsically connected to political quiescence.10 In Guatemala, for example, longitudinal studies have correlated greater experiential
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