Prospects for Pentecostal Philosophy: Assessing the Challenges and Envisioning the Opportunities

In this essay, I offer a constructive vision for the future of pentecostal philosophy. Specifically, I first offer a series of sociocultural challenges that pentecostal philosophy faces. Then I offer a short timeline of philosophical engagement from pentecostal thinkers over the past several decades...

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Published in:Pneuma
Main Author: Simmons, J. Aaron 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2020]
In: Pneuma
RelBib Classification:KDG Free church
NBG Pneumatology; Holy Spirit
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B Methodology
B James K.A. Smith
B Christian Philosophy
B Sarah Coakley
B Hermeneutics
B Metaphilosophy
B pentecostal philosophy
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Summary:In this essay, I offer a constructive vision for the future of pentecostal philosophy. Specifically, I first offer a series of sociocultural challenges that pentecostal philosophy faces. Then I offer a short timeline of philosophical engagement from pentecostal thinkers over the past several decades. In order to open a more productive space for pentecostal philosophy moving forward, I argue that pentecostal philosophy needs to rethink its ties to Plantinga-type confessional Christian philosophy. In this way, pentecostal philosophy should not be reducible to a kind of pentecostal theology. Drawing on Sarah Coakley’s appropriation of feminism for philosophy of religion, I suggest that pentecostal philosophy can facilitate a way of responding appropriately to two audiences (theological and philosophical) without simply circumscribing one into the other. I conclude by contending that pentecostal philosophy should be affectively engaging, argumentatively rigorous, and existentially relevant.
ISSN:1570-0747
Contains:Enthalten in: Pneuma
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15700747-bja10019