Theological Metaphysics

Insofar as Christian theology aims to make truthful claims about the nature of reality, it is necessarily involved in the enterprise of metaphysics. Pentecostals, precisely as Christians, are thus obliged to participate. Through this study it becomes evident that pentecostals aim to participate in the metaphysical discipline in the same way they theologize - that is, informed by the norms, practices, and speech acts that constitute their spirituality. This book aims to construct a Christian metaphysics that is at once attuned to pentecostal spirituality/theology and informed by the classical tradition of Christian metaphysics. Ultimately, this work offers a constructive and critical engagement with pentecostal spirituality, and with pentecostal theology via the larger ecumenical, creedal, and dogmatic metaphysical tradition. Thus, this book is explicitly and intentionally limited to understand metaphysics in conversation with the historical Christian tradition, and to understand a pentecostal vision of it.>

Préface
This book aims to construct a theological metaphysics a holistic vision of reality deduced from the Christian trinitarian claim that the Father has raised his Son Jesus from the dead by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Auteur
Ray Robles is a theologian and teacher of theology and Christian worldview at Grand Canyon University and the Northern California Bible College, USA.

Contenu
Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1 Can There Be a Pentecostal Articulation of Metaphysics? Chapter 2 Come, Creator Spirit: Imagining a Pentecostal Metaphysics in Dialogue with the Work of James K.A. Smith and Amos Yong Chapter 3 The Spirit, Reality, and Renewal: Inferring Metaphysics from the Work of James K.A. Smith and Amos Yong Chapter 4 Worship, Wisdom, and the Ways of the Spirit: Inferring Metaphysics from Pentecostal Spirituality Chapter 5 Toward a Pentecostal Theology of Being-in-the-Spirit: The Knowledge of the Triune God and the Truth of Theological Metaphysics Chapter 6 The Work of God in the Work of the People: Being-in-the-Spirit and Liturgical Renewal Conclusion Bibliography