Contemporary proposals for Christian theology from postliberalism to
Radical Orthodoxy and beyond have espoused their own methodological
paradigms. Those who have ventured into this domain of theological
method, however, have usually had to stake their claims vis-a-vis trends
in what may be called the contemporary ""post-al"" age, whether of the
postmodern, post-Christendom, post-Enlightenment, post-Western, or
postcolonial varieties. This volume is unique among offerings in this
arena in suggesting a way forward that engages on each of these fronts,
and does so from a particularistic Christian perspective without giving
up on Christian theology's traditional claims to universality. This is
accomplished through the articulation of a distinctive dialogical
methodology informed by both pentecostalism and evangelicalism, one
rooted in the Christian salvation-history narrative of incarnation and
Pentecost that is yet open to the world in its many and various
cultural, ethnic, religious, and disciplinary discourses. Amos Yong here
engages with twelve different interlocutors representing different
ecumenical, religious, and disciplinary perspectives. The Dialogical
Spirit thus not only proffers a model for Christian theological method
suitable for the twenty-first-century global context but also
exemplifies this methodological approach through its interactions across
the contemporary scholarly, academic, and theological landscape. ""The
Dialogical Spirit brings together some of the main theological
interlocutors and strands of theological reflection that have shaped the
thought of one of the most prolific and creative pentecostal
theologians of our time. It offers a compelling argument for a
pneumatological and dialogical theological method as particularly suited
to address contemporary theological problems while remaining faithful
to the core of Christian revelation."" --Catherine Cornille, editor of
Criteria of Discernment in Interreligious Dialogue ""If there is one
theologian whose scholarship marks, mirrors, and advances the
evolutionary highpoints of pentecostal theology it is Amos Yong. This
inspiring book on theological method demonstrates that the twists,
turns, and swerves in his thoughts are the temporal tea leaves that not
only interpret the past and present of pentecostal theology, but also
decipher the future of charismatic-renewalist theology as the
representative Christian theology in the twenty-first century."" --Nimi
Wariboko, author of The Pentecostal Principle Amos Yong is Professor of
Theology & Mission and Director of the Center for Missiological
Research at Fuller Seminary, Pasadena, California He is the author and
editor of more than two dozen books, including Spirit-Word-Community:
Theological Hermeneutics in Trinitarian Perspective (2002) and Spirit of
Love: A Trinitarian Theology of Grace (2012). This book is a companion
to his The Missiological Spirit: Christian Mission Theology for the
Third Millennium Global Context (Cascade Books, 2014).