of religions, and theology of creation. A few years later, I deployed a similar approach for public theology: In the Days of Caesar: Pentecostalism and Political Theology (2010) takes its cues from the fact that the story of Jesus and the early messianists unfolds “In those days [when] a decree went out from Emperor Augustus that all the world should be registered” (Luke 2:1), and then derives from the apostolic movement’s Spirit-empowered efforts to navigate the Roman imperial world a pneumatological