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In most parts of the world and especially where Christianity is flourishing, Pentecostal and charismatic movements predominate. What would it look like for the Western world — beset by the narrative of decline — to participate in this global Spirit-driven movement? According to Amos Yong, it all needs to start with the way we approach theological education. Renewing the Church by the Spirit makes the case for elevating pneumatology in Christian life, allowing the Spirit to reinvigorate church and mission. Yong shows how this approach would attend to both the rapidly deinstitutionalising forms of twenty first century Christianity and the pressing need for authentic spiritual experiences that marks contemporary religious life. He begins with a broad assessment of our postmodern, post-Enlightenment, post-Christendom ecclesial context, before moving into a detailed outline of how a Spirit-filled approach to theological education — its curriculum, pedagogy, and scholarship — can meet the ecclesial and missional demands of this new age.

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Amos Yong in this book rethinks, reformats, and relaunches theological education as a missiological calling and task driven by pneumatological imagination. The result is a pragmatic vision of higher education fit for our era characterized by networked global humanity and marked by bold, vital, and renewing movements of the Holy Spirit. The book's scholarship is subtle, wise, beautiful, and provocative. -- Nimi Wariboko Boston University author of The Split Economy: Saint Paul Goes to Wall Street

Praise for the TEBT series: At once visionary and realistic, the books in this series offer fresh, short, and very different answers to the question, 'What is theological education for?' Studies of that question have appeared every couple of decades and seem to assume that 'one-size-fits-all' answers are possible. What's new and groundbreaking here is that a group of theological educators from a broad array of very different religious traditions address the question in conversation with one another and in light of the changing place of faith communities in contemporary culture. -- David H. Kelsey Yale Divinity School The authors of this series invite us into an exercise of the imagination--to let loose of the theological school models we know so well and instead craft ways that we teach and learn as if we are living in the new Jerusalem. This is daring work. Will we have the will to grasp it? I encourage you to read and see. -- Emilie M. Townes Vanderbilt University Divinity School I would be hard-pressed to name any other resource that even approaches this series in its visionary outlook and wide perspective on the challenges and opportunities currently facing theological education. The authors represent an unparalleled selection of leaders in theological education whose views and experiences point to different paths into the future, all leading to true excellence and relevance in theological education. -- Justo L. Gonzalez author of The History of Theological Education At a time of massive changes in churches and theological schools, as well as in society generally, the twelve-book series Theological Education between the Times presents an indispensable resource. Many people, especially younger generations, question as never before the necessity of religious practice or even belonging to a congregation. In this new context, the repercussions for theological education are many: What adjustments must leaders make to maintain support? How can faculty modify programs to meet the demands of modern times? What message will attract prospective students? Astute theological educators from diverse backgrounds prayed together and engaged in conversations that contributed to the authorship of this lucid and compelling series intended for anyone concerned about the fate of religion in society. -- Katarina Schuth, OSF Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity

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Amos Yong is professor of theology and mission while also serving as dean of the School of Theology and the School of Intercultural Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary. One of the most notable Pentecostal theologians writing today, Yong is the author and editor of more than four dozen books.

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