Table of Contents

Preface x

Permissions xiii

1 The Pentecostal Encounter with Science - Whence and Whither? 1

Pentecostalism and Modern Science: A Brief History of Their (Missed?) Engagement 2

The Dialogue between Theology and Science: The Possibility of a Pentecostal Interjection? 12

Science and Theology of Creation in Pentecostal Perspective: Thesis and Overview of the Book 25

2 The Science of Pentecostalism: Spirit and Interdisciplinarity in Theology and Science 34

The (Cognitive) Psychology of Pentecostalism: Many Tongues, Many Interpretations 35

The Sociology of Pentecostalism: Social Deprivation, Secularization, and Routinization 47

The Spirits of Pentecostalism: The Emergence of Methodological Pluralism in Theology and Science 57

An Emergentist Anthropology 58

The Emergence of Interdisciplinarity 65

3 The Spirit at Work in the World: A Pentecostal Perspective on the Divine Action Project 72

Divine Action in Pentecostal-Charismatic Perspective: Challenges and Possibilities 73

The Divine Action Project: Science in Search of the Causal Joint 77

The Eschatological Horizon: Christological Implications for Divine Action 83

Toward a Pneumatological Theology of Eschatological Divine Action 88

Step 1 Resurrection and New Creation: Divine Action and the Holy Spirit 89

Step 2 The Eschatological Agency of the Holy Spirit: Pentecostal-Charismatic Perspectives 92

Step 3 The Work of the Spirit: An Eschatological-Teleological Model 96

4 Natural Laws and Divine Redemption: Teleology, Eschatology, and the Activity of the Spirit 102

The Laws of Nature: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives 103

Miracles, Prayer, and Providence: Natural Laws and the Problem of Divine Action in Modern Theology 112

Rethinking the Laws of Nature: A Dialogue with C. S. Peirce 118

Miracles, the Laws of Nature, and the Eschaton: A Pneumatological and Teleological View of Divine Action 125

5 Ruach over the Primordial Waters: A Pneumatological Theology of Emergence 133

The Cosmic Story: The Standard Account in Emergentist Perspective 135

Philip Clayton's Philosophy of Emergence 144

A Canonical-Pneumatological Reading of the Creation Narratives 151

The Spirit of Evolutionary Emergence and the Eschaton: A Teleological Account 162

6 A Spirit-Filled Creation? Toward a Pneumatological Cosmology 173

A Spirit-Filled World: Angels, Demons, and Spirits in the Pentecostal Imagination 175

In Search of Spirits: What Might Research in Parapsychology Tell Us? 184

Psi, Principalities, and Powers: The Emergence of a Spirit-Filled World 196

Speculative Theses for a Pluralistic Cosmos 207

Epilogue 226

Name Index 229

Subject Index 231

Scripture Index 235