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Renewing the Church by the Spirit: Theological Education after Pentecost is unavailable, but you can change that!

In most parts of the world and especially where Christianity is flourishing, Pentecostal and charismatic movements predominate. What would it look like for the Western world—beset by the narrative of decline—to participate in this global Spirit-driven movement? According to Amos Yong, it all needs to start with the way we approach theological education. Renewing the Church by the Spirit makes...

a triumphalist rhetoric, buoyed by demographers touting how world Christianity is growing largely because of the achievements of these pentecostal and charismatic movements. How can theological education serve these developments at the vanguard of world Christian growth but also be more subdued about the inevitable comings and goings of social forms? The key, I think, is to be both ecclesiological and more fully pneumatological. Because the church exists as the body of Christ and as the fellowship
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