Wonders above, signs below : Pentecostal missiology and environmental degradation / edited by Eugene Baron & Amos Yong.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baron, Eugene, editor.

Yong, Amos, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pentecostal churches--Missions.

Pentecostal churches.

Pentecostal churches--Doctrines.

Ecotheology.

Environmentalism--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Environmentalism.

Environmental degradation--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Environmental degradation.

Pentecostalism.

Physical Description:

xiv, 401 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Pentecostal missiology and environmental degradation

Place of Publication:

Carlisle, Cumbria : Langham Global Library, 2025.

Summary:

"In the face of climate change, biodiversity loss, increasing pollution, and the destruction of natural habitats, how can Christians responsibly care for the environment and sustain life? Building on emerging ecotheological and social-action scholarship, this book brings together twenty scholars to develop a Pentecostal missiology addressing the environmental crisis. Rich and comprehensive, the authors engage in critical biblical analysis of texts that provide an imperative for creation care, theological Pentecostal scholarship on mission and environmentalism, case studies from around the globe that illuminate current and emerging Pentecostal environmental mission praxis, and ecumenical dialogue between Pentecostal churches and the wider church's past. This is a must-read for all scholars, church leaders, and Christians engaged in missional work as it intersects with environmental care." -- Publisher, page 4 of cover.

Contents:

Introduction: Framing the Pentecostal missiological concerns about environmental degradation / Eugene Baron & Amos Yong

Part I: Scriptural perspectives

The Apocalyptic destruction of the Earth in Isaiah 24 and its place in a Pentecostal ecotheology / Anita Davis & Jacqueline N. Grey

The Sending and groaning Spirit: an Eco-pneumatological reading of Mark's Temptation Narrative and Romans 8:18-27 / Jeffrey Lamp

Apocalyptic ecotheology: a Pentecostal contribution / Jon K. Newton

Many tongues, many biocultural niches: a Pentecostal missiological response to language endangerment and environmental degradation / Amos Yong

Part II: Theological Perspectives

Greening Hollenweger: retrieving ecological dimensions from the Dean of Pentecostal Studies / A. J. Swoboda

Missio Dei, Imago Dei and the Spiritus Dei: Oneness Pentecostals and creation care / Joey Peyton

Materiality, interdependence and participation: viewing the renewal of creation through the lens of Pentecostal experience / Michael J. Frost

Beyond Eco-Mission: toward a zoological imperative in theological discourse / Daniela Rizzo

Part III: Global Perspectives

Pentecostals, poverty and the environmental crisis: recuperating an ecotheology among Pentecostals in Central and Eastern Europe / Melody J. Wachsmuth, Adrian Ana

Towards an African Pentecostal ecotheology of the forest / Ocen Walter Onen, Tanya Riches

"Praying with Holy Ghost Fire in Ghana's Natural Environment": a potential African Pentecostal contribution to eco-missiology / Kwame Oppong-Konadu, Sarah Korang Sansa / Eco-ecclesiology: repositioning classical Ghanaian Pentecostal ecclesiology toward creation care / Emmanuel Awudi

Not of this world? (Neo)Pentecostal responses to climate change and ecological crises / Stian Sørlie Eriksen

Part IV: Ecumenical perspectives

Pentecostal climate justice: ecological activism meets eestitution / Harold D. Hunter

Incarnation as a metaphysical key for missional Pentecostal ecotheology: a Marian Pentecostal observation / Sanna Urvas

Cosmotheandric Eucharist, Contemplacostal Spirituality and the call to relational solidarity / Aizaiah G. Yong

Ecological imagination after Pentecost / Andy Lord

Knowing God's mission as creation care: a missional Pentecostal ecclesiological conversation / Eugene Baron.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1786411520

9781786411525

OCLC:

1543002560

Publisher Number:

90103226792