“Epistemology, Ethos, and Environment: In Search of a Theology of Pentecostal Theological Education

Publisher： Brill

ISSN： 1570-0747

Source： Pneuma, Vol.34, Iss.2, 2012-01, pp. : 245-261

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Abstract

Abstract The purpose of this essay is to take a theological look at Pentecostal theological education at the global level. While dialoguing widely with various current and historical discussions of the theology of theological education, particularly with David Kelsey of Yale University, the essay urges Pentecostals to negotiate an epistemology that corrects and goes beyond both modernity and postmodernity. The essay also urges Pentecostals to negotiate several seeming opposites such as “academic versus “spiritual or “doctrinal versus “critical. The final part of the essay offers Pentecostals some advice and inspiration from the reservoirs of the long history and experience of non-Pentecostal theological institutions.