A Response to Velli-Matti Kärkkäinen and Amos Yong
First Statement of Responsibility
Robert P. Menzies
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Leiden
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Brill
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
The author offers a response to Velli-Matti Kärkkäinen's essay, 'Pentecostal Pneumatology of Religions: The Contribution of Pentecostalism to Our Understanding of the Work of God's Spirit in the World', which appeared in The Spirit in the World (2009) and often cites the work of Amos Yong. The author, who also draws from their wider writings, argues that while Kärkkäinen and Yong hail from Pentecostal backgrounds, their theological orientation is charismatic rather than Pentecostal; their approach is pneumatological rather than Pentecostal; and their methodology is ecumenical rather than Evangelical. More specifically, the author suggests that Kärkkäinen and Yong's call for Pentecostals to embrace a more inclusive theology of religions is fraught with perils.