The Dialogical Spirit II
Contextual God, Pluralistic Selves, and Dialectical Imagination After Pentecost
by Amos Yong
Edited by Spencer Moffatt
Imprint: Cascade Books
The Dialogical Spirit II is a second collection of essays that demonstrates the dialectical contours of Amos Yong's critical pentecostal theology. It is a montage of constructive engagements with various thinkers and ideas in the promotion of theological plurality for the third millennium. With essays on Hegelian dialectics, Buddhist-Christian dialogue, pneumatic missiology, etc., voice is generated for the renewal of relationality and the revival of imagination. Free from the imposition of traditional boundaries, Yong makes his way across differing landscapes of truth in a global environment, gleaning from the activities of reflection and understanding therein. Providing snapshots of Yong's theological development over decades of work, The Dialogical Spirit II further evidences the vitality of pentecostal theology to emerging conversations in constructive and comparative venues.
Amos Yong is professor of theology and mission at Fuller Seminary in Pasadena, California.
Spencer Moffatt is a clinical spiritual care provider in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and author of A Nondualistic Pentecostal Theology: Exploring Dialectics and Becoming through Amos Yong and Slavoj Žižek.
“This collection of essays provides a kaleidoscope of Amos Yong’s highly generative contributions not only to a biblically informed theology, but also to philosophical theology, interreligious dialogue, and missiological thought and practice. Propelled by the Spirit of Pentecost, it exemplifies how a pneumatological imagination might engage a range of dialogical encounters and in so doing reconfigure how we might approach some of the pressing concerns of our time. I highly recommend it along with Spencer Moffatt’s thoughtful introduction and conclusion.”
—Lois Malcolm, professor of systematic theology, Luther Seminary
“Amos Yong is the preeminent pioneer of Pentecostal philosophical theology. The Dialogical Spirit II, edited by Spencer Moffatt, collates Yong’s most important philosophical, theological, and missiological articles, especially from the second decade of the twenty-first century. The result is a celebration of Yong’s creative Pentecostal engagement with leading religious and philosophical thinkers from Jonathan Edwards to Paul Tillich and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel to Jürgen Moltmann.”
—Simo Frestadius, executive director, Institute for Pentecostal Theology
“The Dialogical Spirit II enacts what its title announces. Amos Yong’s essays are deliberatively hospitable, hermeneutically charitable, and deeply philosophically grounded. In the ‘spirit’ of ‘dialogue,’ Yong and the editor, Spencer Moffatt, invite readers to think with them, and to be transformed in the process. The goal is to foster a community that is rigorously committed to thinking well, and to loving each other while doing so.”
—J. Aaron Simmons, professor of philosophy, Furman University
“The Dialogical Spirit II, which comes as both a sequel to The Dialogical Spirit and the fifth volume of his previously published or presented works, continues to act as a window to the brilliant, even if controversial-to-the-classical-theist, mind of one of the most significant Pentecostal theologians of our day. Strengthened by the editor Spencer Moffatt’s constructive commentary on Yong’s non-dualistic theology, this book is a must-read for understanding Yong’s philosophical theology.”
—Yoon Shin, co-editor of book reviews, Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies
“I have been learning from my friend Amos Yong for almost thirty years. This marvelous collection of his essays embodies his spirit and brilliance. I love the audacity and ambition of Yong’s project, perhaps especially because he pursues it without self-regard. Here is a mind of ranging curiosity and irenic charity. Yong shows how deep conviction can be wed to faithful innovation in theology.”
—James K. A. Smith, professor of philosophy, Calvin University
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