Science and the spirit a Pentecostal engagement with the sciences / [electronic resource] : edited by James K.A. Smith and Amos Yong. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2010. - 1 online resource (ix, 217 p.) : ill.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

What have the Galapagos to do with Jerusalem? Scientific knowledge in theological context / Is there room for surprise in the natural world? Naturalism, the supernatural, and Pentecostal spirituality / How does God do what God does? Pentecostal-Charismatic perspectives on divine action in dialogue with modern science / Does God have a place in the physical universe? Physics and the quest for the Holy Spirit / Does the Spirit create through evolutionary processes? Pentecostals and biological evolution / Can religious experience be reduced to brain activity? The place and significance of pentecostal narrative / Serotonin and Spirit: can there be a holistic pentecostal approach to mental illness? / Can social scientists dance? Participating in science, spirit, and social reconstruction as an anthropoligist and Afropentecostal / Is integrating spirit and sociology possible? A postmodern research odyssey / Is there room for the Spirit in a world dominated by technology? Pentecostals and the technological world / Telford Work -- James K.A. Smith -- Amos Yong -- Wolfgang Vondey -- Steve Badger and Mike Tenneson -- Frederick L. Ware -- Donald F. Calbreath -- Craig Scandrett-Leatherman -- Margaret M. Poloma -- Dennis W. Cheek.

9780253004666 (electronic bk.) 0253004667 (electronic bk.)


Religion and science.
Pentecostalism.


Electronic books.

BL240.3 / .S3495 2010eb

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