RT Article
T1 Wolfgang Vondey's Structure for Systematic Pentecostal Theology: Full Gospel or Gospel Lite?
JF Journal of pentecostal theology
VO 28
IS 1
SP 12
OP 20
A1 Stephenson, Christopher A.
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2019
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1683826051
AB 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.
K1 Pentecost
K1 Spirit Christology
K1 Trinity
K1 Full Gospel
K1 Incarnation
K1 Narrative Theology
K1 Theological Method
DO 10.1163/17455251-02801002