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Amos Yong

J. Rodman Williams Professor of Theology;
Director of Doctor of Philosophy Program

Email: ayong@regent.edu
Phone: 757.352.4412
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Education

  • Ph.D., Boston University
  • M.A., Portland State University
  • M.A., Western Evangelical Seminary
  • B.A., Bethany College

Courses Taught

  • Further Readings in Theology
  • Systematic Theology in Pneumatological Perspective
  • Theology in Global Context
  • Renewal Theological Method
  • Systematic Theology
  • Guided Research

Research Interests

I would welcome working with doctoral students in these and related areas.

Published Books

  • Editor, The Spirit Renews the Face of the Earth: Pentecostal Forays in Science and Theology of Creation. Eugene, Ore.: Pickwick Press, 2009. (ISBN 1606081969)
  • Editor, with Estrelda Alexander, Philip’s Daughters: Women in Pentecostal-Charismatic Leadership. Princeton Theological Monographs Series 104. Eugene, Ore.: Pickwick Publications, 2009. (ISBN 1556358326)
  • Guest editor, "Pentecostalism, Science, & Creation: New Voices in the Theology-Science Conversation," a collection of six articles in Zygon: Journal of Science and Religion 43:4 (2008): 875-989.
  • Hospitality and the Other: Pentecost, Christian Practices, and the Neighbor, Faith Meets Faith Series (Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2008), ISBN 1570757723.
  • Theology and Down Syndrome: Reimagining Disability in Late Modernity (Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2007), ISBN 1602580065.
  • The Spirit Poured Out on All Flesh: Pentecostalism and the Possibility of Global Theology. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2005. ISBN 0801027705.
  • Editor, with Peter Heltzel, Theology in Global Context: Essays in Honor of Robert Cummings Neville. New York and London: T & T Clark, 2004. ISBN 0567026906.
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  • Beyond the Impasse: Toward a Pneumatological Theology of Religions. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2003. ISBN 0801026121.
  • Editor, Toward a Pneumatological Theology: Pentecostal and Ecumenical Perspectives on Ecclesiology, Soteriology and Theology of Mission. By Veli-Mati Karkkainen. Lanham, New York, and Oxford: University Press of America, 2002. ISBN 0761823891
  • Spirit-Word-Community: Theological Hermeneutics in Trinitarian Perspective. New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies Series. Burlington, Vt., and Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2002. ISBN 0754605418. Reprint, Eugene, Ore.: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2002. ISBN 1597525502.
  • Discerning the Spirit(s): A Pentecostal-Charismatic Contribution to Christian Theology of Religions. Journal of Pentecostal Theology Supplement Series 20. Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000. ISBN 1841271330.

Published Chapters and Journal Articles

  • “The Spirit at Work in the World: A Pentecostal-Charismatic Perspective on the Divine Action Project,” Theology & Science 7:2 (2009): 123-40.
  • “Poured Out on All Creation!? Searching for the Spirit in the Pentecostal Encounter with Science,” in Amos Yong, ed., Spirit, Grace, and Creation: Pentecostal Forays into Theology and Science (Eugene, Ore.: Pickwick Press, 2009), xi-xxiii.
  • “‘The Light Shines in the Darkness’: Johannine Dualism and the Challenge of Christian Theology of Religions Today,” Journal of Religion 89:1 (2009): 31-56.
  • "Natural Laws and Divine Intervention in Theology and Science: What Difference Does Being Pentecostal or Charismatic Make?" Zygon: Journal of Science and Religion 43:4 (2008): 961-89.
  • "Between the Local and the Global: Autobiographical Reflections on the Emergence of the Global Theological Mind," in Darren C. Marks, ed., Shaping a Global Theological Mind (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2008), 187-94.
  • "Discernment, Discerning of Spirits," in William Dyrness and Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, et al., eds., Global Dictionary of Theology (Downers Grove: Intervarsity Press, 2008), 232-35.
  • With Samuel Zalanga, "What Empire? Which Multitude? Pentecostalism & Social Liberation in North America & Sub-Saharan Africa," in Bruce Ellis Benson and Peter Goodwin Heltzel, eds., Evangelicals and Empire: Christian Alternatives to the Political Status Quo (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2008), 237-51.
  • "Mind and Life, Religion and Science: The Dalai Lama and the Buddhist-Christian-Science Trilogue," Buddhist-Christian Studies 28 (2008): 43-63.
  • "Tibetan Buddhism Going Global? A Case Study of a Contemporary Buddhist Encounter with Science," Journal of Global Buddhism 9 (2008) [http://www.globalbuddhism.org/].
  • "Guests, Hosts, and the Holy Ghost: Pneumatological Theology and Christian Practices in a World of Many Faiths," in David H. Jensen, ed., Lord and Giver of Life: Perspectives on Constructive Pneumatology (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008), 71-86.
  • "The Buddhist-Christian Encounter in the USA: Reflections on Christian Practices," in Ulrich van der Heyden and Andreas Feldtkeller, eds., Border Crossings: Explorations of an Interdisciplinary Historian – Festschrift for Irving Hexham (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2008), 457-72.
  • "The Inviting Spirit: Pentecostal Beliefs and Practices regarding the Religions Today," in Steven Studebaker, ed., Defining Issues in Pentecostalism: Classical and Emergent (Eugene, Ore.: Wipf & Stock, 2008), 29-44.
  • "Divining ‘Divine Action’ in Theology-and-Science: A Review Essay," Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 43:1 (2008): 191-200.
  • "Whither Asian American Evangelical Theology? What Asian? Which American? Whose Evangelion?" Evangelical Review of Theology 32:1 (2008): 22-37.
  • "Extending the Conversation: A Response to Fredrick L. Ware," Journal of the European Pentecostal Theological Association 28:1 (2008): 84-93.
  • "The Spirit, Christian Practices, and the Religions: Theology of Religions in Pentecostal and Pneumatological Perspective," Asbury Journal 62:2 (2007): 5-31.
  • "Culture" and "Syncretism," in John Corrie, ed., Dictionary of Mission Theology: Evangelical Foundations (Nottingham, UK, and Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2007), 82-87 and 373-76 respectively.
  • "Beyond the Liberal-Conservative Divide: An Appreciative Rejoinder to Allan Anderson," Journal of Pentecostal Theology 16:1 (2007): 103-11.
  • "The Future of Evangelical Theology: Asian and Asian American Interrogations," The Asia Journal of Theology 21:2 (October 2007): 371-97.
  • "The Future of Asian Pentecostal Theology: An Asian American Assessment,” Asian Journal of Pentecostal Studies 10:1 (2007): 22-41.
  • Wesley and Fletcher – Dayton and Wood: Appreciating Wesleyan-Holiness Tongues, Essaying Pentecostal-Charismatic Interpretations,” in Christian T. Collins Winn, ed., From the Margins: A Celebration of the Theological Work of Donald W. Dayton (Eugene, Ore.: Pickwick Press, 2007), 179-90.
  • "Trinh Thuan and the Intersection of Science and Buddhism: A Review Essay," Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 42:3 (September 2007): 677-84.
  • "Pentecostalism and the Theological Academy," Theology Today 64:2 (2007): 244-50.
  • "God and the Evangelical Laboratory: Recent Conservative Protestant Thinking about Theology and Science," Theology & Science 5:2 (2007): 203-21.
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  • "Disability, the Human Condition, and the Spirit of the Eschatological Long Run: Toward a Pneumatological Theology of Disability," Journal of Religion, Disability, and Health 11:1 (2007): 5-25.
  • "Radical, Reformed, and Pentecostal: Rethinking the Intersection of Post/Modernity and the Religions in Conversation with James K. A. Smith," Journal of Pentecostal Theology 15:2 (2007): 233-50.
  • "The Spirit of Hospitality: Pentecostal Perspectives toward a Performative Theology of the Interreligious Encounter," Missiology: An International Review 35:1 (2007): 55-73.
  • "Can We Get 'Beyond the Paradigm' in Christian Theology of Religions? A Response to Terry Muck," Interpretation 61:1 (January 2007): 28-32.
  • "Poured Out on All Flesh: The Spirit, World Pentecostalism, and the Performance of Renewal Theology," PentecoStudies: Online Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Pentecostalism and Charismatic Movements 6:1 (2007): 16-46 [http://www.glopent.net/pentecostudies].
  • "Ruach, the Primordial Waters, and the Breath of Life: Emergence Theory and the Creation Narratives in Pneumatological Perspective," in Michael Welker, ed., The Work of the Spirit: Pneumatology and Pentecostalism (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006), 183-204.
  • "Spirit, Mission, and the Religions: Toward a P(new)matological/Pentecostal Theology of Religions," in Bob Brenneman, W. R. Brookman, and Nan Muhovich, eds., Java and Justice: Journeys in  Pentecostal Missions Education (Minneapolis: North Central University Press, 2006), 91-111.
  • "The Church is Charismatic," in William Madges and Michael J. Daley, eds., The Many Marks of the Church (Mystic, Conn.: Twenty-Third Publications, 2006), 85-89.
  • "Justice Deprived, Justice Demanded: Afropentecostalisms and the Task of World Pentecostal Theology Today," Journal of Pentecostal Theology 15:1 (2006): 127-47.
  • "Performing Global Pentecostal Theology: A Response to Wolfgang Vondey," PNEUMA: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 28:2 (2006): 313-21.
  • "Asian American Religion: A Review Essay," Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 9:3 (2006): 92-107.
  • "Whither Evangelical Theology? The Work of Veli-Matti Karkkainen as a Case Study of Contemporary Trajectories," Evangelical Review of Theology 30:1 (2006): 60-85.
  • "Ordinances and Sacraments," in Stanley M. Burgess, ed., Encyclopedia of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity (New York: Routledge/Berkshire, 2006), 345-48.
  •  "The Spirit and Creation: Possibilities and Challenges for a Dialogue between Pentecostal Theology and the Sciences," in Journal of the European Pentecostal Theological Association 25 (2005): 82-110.
  • "Discerning the Spirit(s) in the Natural World: Toward a Typology of 'Spirit' in the Theology and Science Conversation," Theology & Science 3:3 (2005): 315-29.
  • "Academic Glossolalia? Pentecostal Scholarship, Multi-disciplinarity, and the Science-Religion Conversation," Journal of Pentecostal Theology 14:1 (2005): 63-82.
  • "A P(new)matological Paradigm for Christian Mission in a Religiously Plural World," Missiology: An International Review 33:2 (2005): 175-91.
  • "Christian and Buddhist Perspectives on Neuropsychology and the Human Person: Pneuma and Pratityasamutpada," Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 40:1 (2005): 143-65.
  • "Significant Turns in Contemporary Theology of Religions," Theology News and Notes 52:1 (Winter 2005): 4-6 and 22.
  • "The Demonic in Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity and in the Religious Consciousness of Asia," in Allan Anderson and Edmond Tang, eds., Asian and Pentecostal: The Charismatic Face of Christianity in Asia (London: Regnum International, and Baguio City, Philippines: Asia Pacific Theological Seminary Press, 2005), 93-127.
  • "From Quantum Mechanics to the Eucharistic Meal: John Polkinghorne's Vision of Science and Theology," in The Global Spiral: A Publication of Metanexus Institute 5:5 (2005).
  • "The Hermeneutical Trialectic: Notes toward Consensual Hermeneutic and Theological Method," Heythrop Journal 45:1 (2004): 22-39.
  • "The Spirit Bears Witness: Pneumatology, Truth & the Religions," Scottish Journal of Theology 57:1 (2004): 14-38.
  • "Rapture," in Hans J. Hillerbrand, ed., The Encyclopedia of Protestantism, 4 vols. (New York: Routledge, 2004), 3.1590-91.
  • With Peter Heltzel, "Robert Cummings Neville and Theology's Global Future," in Yong and Heltzel, eds., Theology in Global Context: Essays in Honor of Robert Cummings Neville (New York and London: T & T Clark, 2004), 29-42.
  • "Beyond Beyond the Impasse: Responding to Dale Irvin," Journal of Pentecostal Theology 12:2 (2004): 281-85.
  • "Spiritual Discernment: A Biblical-Theological Reconsideration," in Wonsuk Ma and Robert P. Menzies, eds., The Spirit and Spirituality: Essays in Honour of Russell P. Spittler, Journal of Pentecostal Theology Supplemental Series 24 (London and New York: T & T Clark, 2004), 83-104.
  • "'The Spirit Hovers over the World': Toward a Typology of 'Spirit' in the Religion and Science Dialogue," The Global Spiral: A Publication of Metanexus Institute 4:12 (2004).
  • "Spirit Possession, the Living, and the Dead: A Review Essay and Response from a Pentecostal Perspective," in Dharma Deepika: A South Asian Journal of Missiological Research 8:2 (2004): 77-88.
  • "Looking Back, Leaping Ahead: A Short Review Essay on 'The Complete Azusa Street Library', Part I," in PNEUMA: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 26:2 (2004): 400-405.
  • "The Holy Spirit and the World Religions: On the Christian Discernment of Spirit(s) 'after' Buddhism," Buddhist-Christian Studies 24 (2004): 191-207.
  • With Paul Elbert, "Christianity, Pentecostalism: Issues in Science and Religion," in J. Wentzel van Huysteen, gen. ed., Encyclopedia of Science and Religion, 2 vols. (New York: Macmillan Reference Library, 2003), I: 132-35.
  • "Technologies of Liberation: A Comparative Soteriology of Eastern Orthodoxy and Theravada Buddhism," Dharma Deepika: A South Asian Journal of Missiological Research 7:1 (2003): 17-60.
  • "'As the Spirit Gives Utterance...': Pentecost, Intra-Christian Ecumenism, and the Wider Oekumene," International Review of Mission 92:366 (July 2003): 299-314.
  • "Divine Knowledge and Relation to Time," in Thomas Jay Oord, ed., Philosophy of Religion: Introductory Essays (Kansas City, Mo.: Beacon Hill Press/Nazarene Publishing House, 2003), 136-52.
  • With Frank D. Macchia, Ralph Del Colle and Dale T. Irvin, "Christ and Spirit: Dogma, Discernment and Dialogical Theology in a Religiously Plural World," Journal of Pentecostal Theology 12:1 (2003): 15-83.
  • "A Theology of the Third Article? Hegel and the Contemporary Enterprise in First Philosophy and First Theology," in Stanley E. Porter and Anthony R. Cross, eds., Semper Reformandum: Studies in Honour of Clark H. Pinnock (Carlisle, UK: Paternoster Press, 2003), 208-31.
  • "The Marks of the Church: A Pentecostal Re-Reading," Evangelical Review of Theology 26:1 (January 2002): 45-67.
  • "Going Where the Spirit Goes...: Engaging the Spirit(s) in J. C. Ma's Pneumatological Missiology," Journal of Pentecostal Theology 10:2 (April 2002): 110-28.
  • Editor's Introduction, "Pentecostalism and a Theology of the Third Article," to Veli-Matti Karkkainen, Toward a Pneumatological Theology: Pentecostal and Ecumenical Perspectives on Ecclesiology, Soteriology and Theology of Mission (Lanham, Boston, and New York: University Press of America, 2002), xi-xviii.
  • "Divine Knowledge and Future Contingents: Weighing the Presuppositional Issues in the Contemporary Debate," Evangelical Review of Theology 26:3 (2002): 240-64.
  • "In Search of Foundations: The Oeuvre of Donald L. Gelpi, S.J., and Its Significance for Pentecostal Theology and Philosophy," Journal of Pentecostal Theology 11:1 (2002): 3-26.
  • "The 'Baptist Vision' of James William McClendon, Jr.: A Wesleyan-Pentecostal Response," Wesleyan Theological Journal 37:2 (Fall 2002): 32-57.
  • "The Word and the Spirit, or the Spirit and the Word? Exploring the Boundaries of Evangelicalism in Relationship to Modern Pentecostalism," Trinity Journal 23NS:2 (2002): 235-52.
  • "Pentecostalism and Ecumenism: Past, Present, and Future," The Pneuma Review, 5-part article. Part I, 4:1 (2001): 6-15; Part II, 4:2 (2001): 36-48; Part III, 4:3 (2001): 16-27; Part IV, 4:4 (2001): 50-57; Part V, 5:1 (2002): 29-38.
  • "Possibility and Actuality: The Doctrine of Creation and Its Implications for Divine Omniscience," The Wesleyan Philosophical Society Online Journal 1:1 (2001).
  • "Discerning the Spirit(s) in the World of Religions: Toward a Pneumatological Theology of Religions," in John G. Stackhouse, Jr., ed., No Other Gods Before Me? Evangelicals and the Challenge of World Religions (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 2001), 37-61.
  • "Between Two Extremes: Balancing Word-Christianity and Spirit-Christianity (A Review Article)," The Pneuma Review 3:1 (Winter 2000): 78-83.
  • "The Demise of Foundationalism and the Retention of Truth: What Evangelicals Can Learn from C. S. Peirce," Christian Scholar's Review 29:3 (Spring 2000): 563-88.
  • "On Divine Presence and Divine Agency: Toward a Foundational Pneumatology," Asian Journal of Pentecostal Studies 3:2 (July 2000): 167-88.
  • "'Not Knowing Where the Spirit Blows…': On Envisioning a Pentecostal-Charismatic Theology of Religions," Journal of Pentecostal Theology 14 (April 1999): 81-112.
  • "Whither Theological Inclusivism? The Development and Critique of an Evangelical Theology of Religions," The Evangelical Quarterly 71:4 (October 1999): 327-48.
  • "To See or Not to See: A Review Essay of Michael Palmer's Elements of a Christian Worldview," PNEUMA: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 21:2 (Fall 1999): 305-27.
  • "Whither Systematic Theology? A Systematician Chimes in on a Scandalous Conversation," PNEUMA: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 20:1 (Spring 1998): 85-93.
  • "Tongues of Fire in the Pentecostal Imagination: The Truth of Glossolalia in Light of R. C. Neville's Theory of Religious Symbolism," Journal of Pentecostal Theology, Issue 12 (April 1998): 39-65.
  • "The Truth of Tongues Speech: A Rejoinder to Frank Macchia," Journal of Pentecostal Theology, Issue 13 (October 1998): 107-15.
  • "What Has Jerusalem to do with Nairobi, Lagos, Accra, or Rio? Religion and Theology in Africa and Afro-America (A Review Essay)," Koinonia: The Princeton Seminary Graduate Forum 10:2 (1998): 216-27.
  • "Personal Selfhood(?) and Human Experience in Whitehead's Philosophy of Organism," Paideia Project: Proceedings of the 20 th World Congress of Philosophy (1998).
  • "The Turn to Pneumatology in Christian Theology of Religions: Conduit or Detour?", Journal of Ecumenical Studies 35:3-4 (1998): 437-54.
  • "'Tongues', Theology, and the Social Sciences: A Pentecostal-Theological Reading of Geertz's Interpretive Theory of Religion," Cyberjournal for Pentecostal/ Charismatic Research 1 (January 1997).
  • "Oneness and the Trinity: The Theological and Ecumenical Implications of 'Creation Ex Nihilo' for an Intra-Pentecostal Dispute," PNEUMA: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 19:1 (Spring 1997): 81-107.

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