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Biografisk notat
Ray C. Robles is a theologian and teacher of theology and Christian worldview at Grand Canyon University and the Northern California Bible College, USAFaced with the relative neglect of metaphysics within the Pentecostal tradition, Ray Robles offers an in-depth and theologically astute corrective. Deeply grounded in Christian tradition,<i> Theological Metaphysics</i> draws from a wide range of sources, while engaging in spirited dialogue especially with Amos Yong’s emergence theory. The result is a well-constructed plea for a traditional participatory or sacramental ontology that does justice to the Pentecostal experience. This book is a treasure trove, not just for Pentecostals but for anyone asking how it is that we may speak about the triune God’s enchantment of a Spirit-filled world.
Hans Boersma, Nashotah Theological Seminary, USA
Reality is… What exactly? Ray Robles in this important study disentangles the strands within reality inhabited by Pentecostals. The reader is rewarded by an intellectual journey of fascinating philosophical twists and turns, some ecumenical, some spiritual and historical and some purely theological. Fasten your seat belts!
William K. Kay, Regents Theological College, UK
Ray C. Robles has written a significant work on theological metaphysics from a pentecostal perspective. He presents a trinitarian, eschatologically oriented, radically open, and re-enchanted creational metaphysics. Robles does so by interacting with pentecostal theology, the Church Fathers, Aquinas, and some modern philosophical theologians. He also presents an illustrative pentecostal liturgy that flows from his metaphysical vision and thus grounds the more abstract discussion in the worshiping community. This book makes an important contribution to Christian metaphysics and pentecostal philosophical theology.
Simo Frestadius, Regents Theological College, UK and Bangor University, UK
By making the resurrection of Jesus the key pneumatological event, Robles makes the bold move of prioritizing eschatology in his theology of creation, thereby overcoming a dualism between the natural and the supernatural. He offers Pentecostals a fruitful path for addressing the question of metaphysics. An important step forward for Pentecostal theology.
Frank D. Macchia, Bangor University, UK
Robles’ book sets forth timely trajectories enjoining further exploration into the promise of Pentecostalism towards a 21st-century Christian metaphysical vision.
Journal of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity
Insofar as Christian theology aims to make truthful claims about the nature of reality, it is necessarily involved in the enterprise of metaphysics. Pentecostals, precisely as Christians, are thus obliged to participate. Through this study it becomes evident that pentecostals aim to participate in the metaphysical discipline in the same way they theologize — that is, informed by the norms, practices, and speech acts that constitute their spirituality.
This book aims to construct a Christian metaphysics that is at once attuned to pentecostal spirituality/theology and informed by the classical tradition of Christian metaphysics.
Ultimately, this work offers a constructive and critical engagement with pentecostal spirituality, and with pentecostal theology via the larger ecumenical, creedal, and dogmatic metaphysical tradition. Thus, this book is explicitly and intentionally limited to understand metaphysics in conversation with the historical Christian tradition, and to understand a pentecostal vision of it.
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1
Can There Be a Pentecostal Articulation of Metaphysics?
Chapter 2
Come, Creator Spirit: Imagining a Pentecostal Metaphysics in Dialogue with the Work of James K.A. Smith and Amos Yong
Chapter 3
The Spirit, Reality, and Renewal: Inferring Metaphysics from the Work of James K.A. Smith and Amos Yong
Chapter 4
Worship, Wisdom, and the Ways of the Spirit: Inferring Metaphysics from Pentecostal Spirituality
Chapter 5
Toward a Pentecostal Theology of Being-in-the-Spirit: The Knowledge of the Triune God and the Truth of Theological Metaphysics
Chapter 6
The Work of God in the Work of the People: Being-in-the-Spirit and Liturgical Renewal
Conclusion
Bibliography
Systematic Pentecostal and Charismatic Theology provides a platform for bringing together scholars among the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements to explore core theological themes in critical and constructive fashion. The series includes monographs that offer in-depth systematic analyses as well as edited collections that allow scholars from a variety of theological disciplines to interact under a single theme or to present different views in order to pursue, among others, the following goals:
- to coordinate the systematic presentation (broadly construed) of Pentecostal and Charismatic theology worldwide;
to initiate critical discussion of traditional Pentecostal doctrines by Pentecostal scholars;
- to re-examine central Pentecostal or Charismatic doctrines and practices;
- to venture into new fields of study hitherto not attempted by Pentecostal and Charismatic theologians;
- to encourage younger scholars to engage in a systematic theological endeavor from Pentecostal and Charismatic perspectives;
- to provide ecumenical and interdisciplinary conversations of systematic Pentecostal and Charismatic theologies with other theological traditions;
- to facilitate the systematic and constructive development of Pentecostal and Charismatic theology.
Contributing volumes explore single or interrelated theological themes: ranging from traditional and uniquely Pentecostal doctrines to theological method, hermeneutics, spirituality, ethics, liturgy, as well as interdisciplinary engagements through the lens of Pentecostal and Charismatic theology. Hence, the series fosters broad theological conversations in and outside the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements with the purpose to offer constructive presentations for Pentecostal/Charismatic and non-Pentecostal/Charismatic audiences.