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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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
[2020]
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Pneuma
Year: 2020, Volume: 42, Issue: 2, Pages: 175-200 |
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. |
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ISSN: | 1570-0747 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Pneuma
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700747-bja10019 |