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Thinking in Tongues: Pentecostal Contributions to Christian Philosophy is unavailable, but you can change that!

The past several decades have seen a renaissance in Christian philosophy, led by the work of Alvin Plantinga, Nicholas Wolterstorff, William Alston, Eleonore Stump, and others. In the spirit of Plantinga’s famous manifesto, “Advice to Christian Philosophers,” James K. A. Smith here offers not only advice to Pentecostal philosophers but also some Pentecostal advice to Christian philosophers. In...

to intellectualize pentecostalism; I’m not out to disclose the propositional core of pentecostalism. Rather, I’m interested in mining and “reading” pentecostal spirituality in order to discern the “understanding” of the world that is implicit in these practices.21 Of course, that means one will best be able to appreciate and understand this project only if one also has some familiarity with the practices that make up the lived religious experience that is pentecostal spirituality. I cannot hope to
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