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Beyond Pentecostalism: The Crisis of Global Christianity and the Renewal of the Theological Agenda is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

imagination creates a holy play of hope that involves God, the church, and the world in the fellowship of the Holy Spirit. Its goal is a transformation of the present crisis in light of the eschatological future breaking open the present conditions for the renewing work of God’s Spirit. The tension at the foundation of play keeps theology vulnerable to the temptations of breaking the boundaries of play for the sake of the accountability and reasonableness demanded by the norms of the age. The continuing
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