Interdisciplinary and Religio-Cultural Discourses on a Spirit-Filled World Loosing the Spirits

This volume presents interdisciplinary, intercultural, and interreligious approaches directed toward the articulation of a pneumatological theology in its broadest sense, especially in terms of attempting to conceive of a spirit-filled world.

Introduction: On Binding, amd Loosing, the Spirits: Navigating amd Engaging a Spirit-Filled World; Amos Yong PART I: SPIRITS IN THEOLOGY AND RELIGION 1. The Spirit-world of the Bible: The Ambiguity of Inspiration and the Discernment the Spirits in Biblical and Early Jewish Traditions; John R. Levison  2. Spirit and Spirits in Christian Theological Traditions; Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen 3. Speaking to the Wind: Spirits in African Traditional Religion; J. Kwabena Asamaoh-Gyadu 4. Spirits and Shintoism; Naoki Inoue PART II: THE SPIRITS OF HISTORY AND CULTURE 5. Spirits in History; Patrick Oden 6. A Pluralistic Pneumatology of the Arts; Robert K. Johnston 7. Pneuma-kinesis and Stephen King: Beyond Psychokinetics in Parapsychology; Donnie W. Staggs 8. Zeitgeist: Spirit and Spirits in Postmodern Life; Emma Ineson PART III: THE SPIRITS OF THE POLIS 9. Spirits of the Political; Sebastian Kim 10. Spirits and Economics; Nimi Wariboko 11. Talking Back, Acting Up: Wrestling with Spirits in Social Bodies; Bradford E. Hinze  12. Driving Out Demons? Looking at Spirits in Inter-religious Encounter thru the Lens of Deliverance Ministry and Theology; Tony Richie  PART IV: THE SPIRITS OF NATURE AND THE COSMOS 13. The Spirit in Evolution and Nature; Philip Clayton 14. Green and Chiological Pneumatologies: Nature, Ch'i, and Spirit; Koo Dong Yun 15. Christian Animism, Green Spirit Theology, and the Global Crisis today; Mark I. Wallace  16. Vector Fields as the Spirit's Empirical Correlate: The Ubiquity of the Work of the Holy Spirit and the Logos; Erwin Morales 17. Spirits and the Stars: A Spirit-Filled Cosmology?; David Bradnick  Conclusion: The Holy Spirit in a Spirit-filled World; Kirsteen Kim

John R. Levison, Seattle Pacific University, USA J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu, Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon. Accra, Ghana Naoki Inoue, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, USA Patrick Oden, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, USA Robert K. Johnston, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, USA Donnie W. Staggs, Regent University, USA Emma Ineson, Trinity Theological College, UK Sebastian Kim, St John University, UK Nimi Wariboko, Andover Newton Theological School, USA Bradford E. Hinze, Fordham University, USA Tony Richie, Pentecostal Theological Seminary, Cleveland, USA Philip Clayton, Claremont School Of Theology, USA Koo Dong Yun, Bethany University, USA Mark I. Wallace, Swarthmore College, USA Erwin Morales, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, USA David Bradnick, Regent University School Of Divinity, USA