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At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Christianity faces one of its greatest opportunities, as well as one of its greatest challenges—the formulation of a global theology. In Beyond Pentecostalism Wolfgang Vondey argues that Pentecostal thought and praxis represent an indispensable catalyst for the realization of this task. Accentuating Pentecostalism as a manifestation of what he calls...

to the drama that continues in the church as God uses Scripture to address, edify, and confront its readers” (p. 17). The resulting dramatic theology combines the narrative understanding of theology as ecclesial practice with the idea of biblical interpretation as performance in order to conceptualize the task of theology as the continuing drama of the biblical story (p. 22). Significantly, the performance of this “theo-drama” requires not only the intellectual assent of the individual but also the
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