Wolfgang Vondey's Structure for Systematic Pentecostal Theology: Full Gospel or Gospel Lite?

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 P...

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Main Author: Stephenson, Christopher A. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2019]
In: Journal of pentecostal theology
Year: 2019, Volume: 28, Issue: 1, Pages: 12-20
IxTheo Classification:HC New Testament
KDG Free church
NBC Doctrine of God
NBF Christology
NBG Pneumatology; Holy Spirit
Further subjects:B Pentecost
B Incarnation
B Trinity
B Full Gospel
B Narrative Theology
B Theological Method
B Spirit Christology
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1745-5251
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of pentecostal theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/17455251-02801002