Spirit of love : a Trinitarian theology of grace / Amos Yong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yong, Amos.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Love--Religious aspects--Pentecostal churches.

Love.

Physical Description:

xviii, 228 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, [2012]

Summary:

Pentecostal theologian Amos Yong points readers toward an increased theological emphasis on God as love. In Spirit of Love, the first pneumatology of the divine spiritual gift of love, Yong constructs an ecumenical and interdisciplinary theology of the Holy Spirit for the church universal. A distinctive contribution toward greater theological reflection on the triune God, Spirit of Love moves readers toward a more complete understanding of God as the source of divine love. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I God Is Love: The Theology and Science of Love

1 The Spirit of Charity: Toward a Theology of Love 3

2 Science and the Altruistic Spirit: Empirical Understandings of Benevolent Love 21

3 What's Love Got to Do with It? Pentecostalism, the Holy Spirit, and Love 39

Part II God Is Spirit: Pentecostalism, the Spirit's Gifts, and the Resources of Love

4 Spirit-Empowered Transformation: Pentecostal Praxis and the Energy of Love 59

5 The Spirit's Baptism of Love: Pentecostal Spirituality and a Pneumatology of Love 75

6 The Spirit Poured Out on All Flesh: Aspects of a Lukan Theology of Love 93

Part III God Is Spirit, God Is Love: The Gift of the Spirit and the Gift of Love

7 Love and the Gift/s of the Spirit: A Pauline Pneumatology of Love 115

8 The Spirit and the Gift/s of Love: A Johannine Pneumatology of Love 131

9 The Power of Love in the Spirit: A Manifesto in Nine Theses 147.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9781602583269

1602583269

OCLC:

773273270