Pentecostal Theology

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-45
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Vondey
Keyword(s):  
Pentecostal Movement ◽  
Pentecostal Theology ◽  
Full Gospel ◽  
Embodied Theology ◽  
Continuity And Discontinuity

The book Pentecostal Theology identifies the so-called ‘full gospel’ as a comprehensive theological narrative of the Pentecostal movement. The full gospel is essentially a liturgical narrative aiming at participation in Pentecost through an experiential, hermeneutical, and theological move to and from the altar that yields a biblically and theologically organized and embodied theology. The reviewers of the book have raised a number of observations concerning the systematic and constructive argument of Pentecostal Theology. This essay responds to the concerns by discussing the nature of theological inquiry among Pentecostals, the method of the full gospel, and the continuity and discontinuity in Pentecostal theology.

Wolfgang Vondey’s Pentecostal Theology: Living the Full Gospel

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Kimberly Ervin Alexander
Keyword(s):  
Road Trip ◽  
Pentecostal Movement ◽  
Pentecostal Theology ◽  
Full Gospel ◽  
Migrant Family

Utilizing the metaphors of family and the migrant family road trip, this essay offers an appreciative challenge to Vondey’s contribution of constructive theological narrative of the fivefold gospel. By suggesting the importance of the inclusion of a relational and familial model, it raises the issue of what is missed by the lack of inclusion of the voices of testifying members of the Pentecostal family, particularly those of sisters and mothers. Further, the journey motif, it is suggested, better fits the epic spirituality of the Pentecostal movement.

scholarly journals Pentekostal hermeneutik

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greger Andersson
Keyword(s):  
Christian Life ◽  
Pentecostal Movement ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Pentecostal Theology ◽  
Biblical Texts

Pentecostal hermeneutics: How do Swedish Pentecostal preachers interpret the Bible? In this article I present a study of Swedish Pentecostal preachers’ interpretations and applications of biblical texts. The study is based on 19 sermons that were published on the website “Söndag hela veckan”, January 19, 2020, by churches with “Pingst” (Pentecostal) in their name. The aim of the study was to contribute to the field of Pentecostal hermeneutics through an analysis of interpretative patterns in present day preachers’ sermons. The study shows that the preachers address a putative desire for a more devoted Christian life and that they do not practice exegetics in the sense of making historical readings searching for the original authors’ intention. Instead they apply the texts to the present here and now, thereby bringing the texts from them to us. This is done by means of generalizations, abstractions, and analogies in the form of parables and narratives. In this way the studied preachers endeavor to encourage and challenge their listeners to continue searching for the richer Christian life they long for. In relation to previous studies, I claim that the studied sermons constitute a special act of interpretation that cannot be compared with academic exegetics. I also suggest that the hermeneutics in the sermons cannot be described as narrative or, for example, poststructuralist. There are some marginal similarities with interpretations of fiction, but the sermons can on the whole be described as “a distinctive interpretive activity”. The message of the sermons is consistent with previous descriptions of Pentecostal theology, except that the preachers do not emphasize the story of the Pentecostal movement and, more remarkably, that traditional eschatology hardly has any place in the sermons.

Pentecostal Theology: Living the Full Gospel, by Wolfgang Vondey

Pneuma ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 553-555
Author(s):  
Steven Edward Harris
Keyword(s):  
Pentecostal Theology ◽  
Full Gospel

Review of Wolfgang Vondey’s Pentecostal Theology: Living the Full Gospel

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-31
Author(s):  
Steven M. Studebaker
Keyword(s):  
Theological Anthropology ◽  
The Self ◽  
Systematic Theology ◽  
Spirit Baptism ◽  
Pentecostal Theology ◽  
The World ◽  
Full Gospel ◽  
The Individual ◽  
New Phase

Wolfgang Vondey’s Pentecostal Theology is a creative, constructive, and far ranging contribution to the development of Pentecostal theology. Grounded in the Pentecostal experience of the full gospel, it provides both a fundamental Pentecostal theology and a Pentecostal perspective on major categories of systematic theology. The book marks a new phase of efforts to develop a comprehensive or systematic Pentecostal theology by starting with Pentecostal concerns and developing a theology in terms of them. This review focuses on Vondey’s discussions of creation (ch. 7) and theological anthropology (ch. 8), in which he argues that a Pentecostal theology of creation and eschatology does not conclude with God razing the world, but with the Spirit’s renewing creation. Furthermore, although Spirit baptism transforms the individual, the purpose of that individual transformation is to lead beyond the self and to create a community of sanctified life. Spirit baptism leads those who receive it into the world to live for all people.

What’s Love Got to Do with It? The Sociology of Godly Love and the Renewal of Modern Pentecostalism

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amos Yong
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Interdisciplinary Work ◽  
Social Scientific Study ◽  
Pentecostal Movement ◽  
The Social ◽  
Pentecostal Theology ◽  
Social Scientific

This article uses the recent work of sociologist Margaret M. Poloma to argue that developments in the sociology of Pentecostalism have the potential to revitalize a classical Pentecostal movement that can be otherwise understood as languishing. In particular, the social scientific study of benevolent service in various segments of the Pentecostal movement provides the springboard for the argument. After locating the interdisciplinary work of Poloma and her colleagues on godly love within the broader context of social science research in the last half century, this paper will explore its implications for the future and renewal of especially the classical Pentecostal movement, for Pentecostal theology and self-understanding, and for scholarship on Pentecostalism.

Wolfgang Vondey’s Structure for Systematic Pentecostal Theology

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-20
Author(s):  
Christopher A. Stephenson
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Systematic Theology ◽  
Great Promise ◽  
Narrative Theology ◽  
Proper Place ◽  
Pentecostal Theology ◽  
Full Gospel ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Fundamental Transformation ◽  
Spirit Christology

Wolfgang Vondey’s Pentecostal Theology: Living the Full Gospel is a tour de force in Pentecostal systematic theology. It is also the most articulate statement of the fivefold gospel’s power to explain the impulses of past Pentecostal spirituality and its constructive potential for future Pentecostal discourse. Combining both traditional and innovative systematic loci, Vondey’s project shows great promise for the enterprise of christologically oriented narrative theology. One looming question is whether the christocentrism of the full gospel can bear adequate witness to some of the details of Spirit christology. That is, can the full gospel, with its emphasis on Jesus actively bestowing the Holy Spirit on creatures, give proper place to Jesus passively receiving the Holy Spirit from the Father, without the full gospel’s structure undergoing fundamental transformation? While some ambiguities remain in Vondey’s attempts to employ both the full gospel and elements of Spirit christology in the same theological paradigm, he takes long strides towards integrating these two themes that have often competed with each other for space in Pentecostal theology.

scholarly journals Soteriology at the Altar: Pentecostal Contributions to Salvation as Praxis

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 223-238
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Vondey
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Narratives ◽  
Call And Response ◽  
Pentecostal Theology ◽  
Full Gospel ◽  
Altar Call

The day of Pentecost serves as a central integrative theme for the practices, theological concepts, and biblical narratives nurturing Pentecostal soteriology. The so-called “full gospel” provides the basic contours for ritual reflection among Pentecostals and recognizes salvation as both initial metaphor for Pentecostal theology and principal theological theme. The foundational soteriological plot of Pentecost is appropriated by Pentecostals in diverse contexts through the foundational rite of the altar call and response. A Pentecostal reading of salvation from the biblical account of Pentecost and a subsequent articulation of Pentecostal soteriology cast in the image of Pentecost identifies the Pentecostal contribution to Christian soteriology as a persistent emphasis on salvation as praxis.

Tarrying on the Lord: Affections, Virtues and Theological Ethics in Pentecostal Perspective

2004 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Castelo
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Moral Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Theological Ethics ◽  
Holiness Movement ◽  
Pentecostal Movement ◽  
Logical Sequence ◽  
Pentecostal Theology ◽  
Moral Frameworks ◽  
Vision Of God

AbstractAs Pentecostals begin to inquire what might constitute Pentecostal theology, the matter must also arise as to what constitutes Pentecostal ethics, both as a matter of logical sequence and as a necessity given the historical and theological links the Pentecostal movement has with the Holiness movement of the nineteenth century. Both areas must be localized in the context of Pentecostal worship, and essential to the field of ethics are the affections and virtues, two moral frameworks that have proven useful for Christian moral reflection. Rather than choosing one or the other, Pentecostals can employ these frameworks in a complementary manner, for each framework has particular accents that are crucial for describing how the moral life takes shape and is sustained. The author employs the activity of ‘tarrying’ from Pentecostal worship as a metaphor for the Pentecostal vision of the moral life in order to show how Pentecostals may continue to embody distinctively their eschatological vision of God at a time when they are negotiating competing allegiances as they emerge as a sub-tradition within Christianity.

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