Greening the Apocalypse
A Pentecostal Eco-eschatological Exploration
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/pent.35012Keywords:
ecotheology, Pentecostal, eschatologyAbstract
While Pentecostal theologians have lately begun examining the relationship between Pentecostal theology and ecology, little attention has been devoted to exploring the relationship between Pentecostal eschatology and ecotheology. In response, this study explores how wider Pentecostal eschatology can provide fresh opportunities for developing a Pentecostal eco-eschatology. In sum, I converge the eschatological contributions of Peter Althouse, Frank Macchia, and Larry McQueen on the point that the old earth is not annihilated at Christ's second coming, but is it is transformed into the new earth. I take ecotheological matters further by addressing the issues that emerge from a distinctly Pentecostal perspective - thoroughly pneumatological and praxis oriented. The result is an original, constructive eco-eschatological contribution to Pentecostal scholarship.
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Bulgakov, Sergii?. The Comforter. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2004.
Coulter, Dale M. "Pentecostal Visions of the End: Eschatology, Ecclesiology and Fascination of the Left Behind Series." Journal of Pentecostal Theology 14.1 (2005): 81-98.
Dermawan, Agustinus. "The Spirit in Creation and Enviornmental Stewardship: A Preliminary Pentecostal Response Toward Ecological Theology.” Asian Journal Of Pentecostal Studies 6.2 (2003): 199-217.
Engelsviken, Tormod. “The Gift of the Spirit: An Analysis and Evaluation of the Charismatic Movement from a Lutheran Theological Perspective”. PhD diss., Aquinas Institute of Theology, Dubuque, 1981.
Horton, Stanley. What the Bible Says about the Holy Spirit. Springfield, MO: Gospel Publishing House, 1976.
Kärkkäinen, Veli-Matti. "Mission, Spirit and Eschatology: An Outline of a Pentecostal-Charismatic Theology of Mission." Mission Studies 16.1 (1999): 73-94.
Macchia, Frank. "Justification Through New Creation: The Holy Spirit and the Doctrine by which the Church Stands or Falls." Theology Today 58.2 (2001): 202-217.
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McQueen, Larry. “Early Pentecostal Eschatology in light of The Apostolic Faith 1906-1908.” In Perspectives in Pentecostal Eschatologies: World Without End, edited by Peter Althouse and Robby Waddell, 139-154. Eugene: Pickwick Publications, 2010.
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Moltmann, Jürgen. God in Creation: An Ecological Doctrine of Creation. London: SCM Press, 1985.
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Pannenberg, Wolfhart. Systematic Theology, Volume 3. Edinburgh: William B. Eerdmans, 2009.
Pinnock, Clark. H. A Wideness in God's Mercy: The Finality of Jesus Christ in a World of Religions. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1992.
------------. Flame of Love: A Theology of the Holy Spirit. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1996.
Studebaker, Steven. From Pentecost to the Triune God. Grand Rapids, Mich: William B. Eerdmans, 2012.
Swoboda, A J. “Posterity or Prosperity?: Critiquing and Refiguring Prosperity Theologies in an Ecological Age.” Pneuma: The Journal of The Society for Pentecostal Studies 37.3 (2015): 394-411.
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Waddell, Robby. “A Green Apocalypse: Comparing Secular and Religious Eschatological Visions of Earth.” In Pentecostals, Peacemaking, and Social Justice Series. Vol. 8, Blood Cries Out: Pentecostals, Ecology, and the Groans of Creation, edited by A.J. Swoboda, 133-151. Eugene: Pickwick Publications, 2014.
Wright, N.T. Surprised by Scripture: Engaging Contemporary Issues. New York: HarperOne, 2014.
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2018-10-26
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Williams, A. (2018). Greening the Apocalypse: A Pentecostal Eco-eschatological Exploration. PentecoStudies, 17(2), 205-229. https://doi.org/10.1558/pent.35012
