Contents:
• Part I – On Pentecostalism and Political Theology: Setting the Stage
1. A Phenomenology of the Pentecostal Body Politic
1.1 The Politics of Pentecostalism
1.1.1 Apolitical Pentecostalism
1.1.2 Political Pentecostalism
1.1.3 Pentecostalism as an Alternative Civitas and Polis
1.2 The Economics of Pentecostalism
1.2.1 Pentecostalism and Prosperity
1.2.2 Prosperity Pentecostalism, the Global Market, and the Neoliberal Economy
1.2.3 Pentecostalism as an Alternative Economics
1.3 Pentecostalism, Society, and Culture
1.3.1 Pentecostal Sectarianism
1.3.2 Pentecostal Conservatism
1.3.3 Pentecostal Progressivism
2. Political Theology: Surveying the Field
2.1 Politics and Theology: Biblical and Early Christian Thinking
2.1.1 Political Theology in Ancient Israel
2.1.2 Jesus and Paul in the Context of Empire
2.1.3 The Patristic Period and St. Augustine: Early Christian Theologies of the Political and the Polis
2.2 Theology and the Political: Mainstreams in the Christian Tradition
2.2.1 Christendom: Medieval Developments in Political Theology
2.2.2 Luther’s “Two Spheres” and His Descendants
2.2.3 Reformed Theologies of the Political
2.3 Political Theology in the Twentieth Century
2.3.1 Carl Schmitt: Founding the Field of Political Theology
2.3.2 Since Schmitt: Surveying Contemporary Options in Political Theology
2.3.3 The State of the Discussion: Issues and Challenges
3. Toward a Political Theology: Pentecostal Trajectories
3.1 Method in (Political) Theology: A Pentecostal Framework
3.1.1 Pentecostalism and Theological Method: Challenges and Opportunities
3.1.2 “Starting with the Spirit”: Sketching a Pentecostal Theological Method
3.1.3 The Fivefold Gospel: A Pentecostal Theological Framework
3.2 The Hermeneutics of Political Theology:
3.2.1 Luke and the Political: An Overview
3.2.2 The Restoration of Israel: The Unfolding Story of the Church and the Political in Acts
3.2.3 Pentecostal Hermeneutics: Toward a Lukan Political Theology
3.3 Renewing Political Theology: A Pentecostal Assist
3.3.1 Sketching the Thesis: Many Tongues, Many Political Practices
3.3.2 Summarizing the Argument: Pentecostalism and Political Theology
3.3.3 Locating the Larger Project: Pentecostal Theology for the Twenty-First Century
• Part II – Pentecostal Intersections with Political Theology: Enacting the Performance
4. Pentecostal Salvation as Deliverance from the Powers: The Political Dimensions
4.1 Jesus as Savior: Pentecostal Salvation, Deliverance, and the Political
4.1.1 Classical Pentecostal Soteriology: Jesus as Savior and Deliverer
4.1.2 The Spirit/s, Witchcraft, and the Public Sphere: Pentecostalism and Political Economy
4.1.3 Principalities, Powers, and Politics: Spiritual Warfare as Pentecostal Political Praxis
4.2 Principalities and Powers in Political Theology
4.2.1 The Demonic and the Political: Modern Interpretations
4.2.2 The Powers and the Political: Contemporary Options
4.2.3 Principalities and Powers: Biblical Reinterpretations and Theological Reconsiderations
4.3 Many Tongues, Many Spirits: Toward a Cosmopolitical Liturgics of Resistance
4.3.1 Delivering All “Oppressed by the Devil”: Prayer, Praise, and Power Politics in Early Christianity
4.3.2 Principalities, Powers, and the Spirit/s: Worship as Alternative Political Praxis
4.3.3 The Liturgical Imagination: Toward a Re-enchantment of the Cosmopolitical
5. Pentecostal Holiness: A Sanctified Theology of Culture
5.1 Jesus the Sanctifier: Sanctified from What?
5.1.1 Classical Pentecostal Theologies of Sanctification
5.1.2 Pentecostal-Holiness Cultures: W(h)ither the Sanctified Church?
5.1.3 Global Pentecostal Cultures: Consecration, Mission, and the Quest for a Sanctified Aesthetics
5.2 Political Theologies Post-Christendom: Contemporary Models
5.2.1 The Politics of Diaspora: The radical Reformation in a Post-Constantinian World
5.2.2 A Sectarian Politics? The Colony of Resident Aliens Post-Christendom
5.2.3 The Politics of the New Monasticism: Seeking Perfectionism in Culture and Society
5.3 Many Tongues, Many Cultures: The Politics of Holiness for the Sanctification of the World
5.3.1 “God Shows No Partiality”: Redeeming (Saving) Languages, Reforming (Sanctifying) Cultures
5.3.2 The Spirit of Holiness: Perfectionist Politics as Redemptive Cultural Praxis
5.3.3 The Sanctified Imagination: The Beauty of Holiness and a Renewal of Aesthetics
6. Pentecostal Power: A Prophetic Politics of Civil Society
6.1 Jesus as Spirit Baptizer: Baptized in and for What?
6.1.1 Classical Pentecostal Theologies of Spirit-Baptism: Empowerment for World Evangelization
6.1.2 South Korean Pentecostal Missions: A Vision for Personal and Social Evangelization
6.1.3 Neo-Pentecostalism’s Re-Christianizing the Secular: A Case Study of Political Evangelization
6.2 Post-Secularism in the Western World: A Radically Orthodox Theopolitics
6.2.1 What Is Radical Orthodoxy? A Post-Secular Theology of the Social
6.2.2 Church, Market, State: Radically Orthodox Alternatives
6.2.3 Christ and Culture: Reclamations of/for the Cities of God
6.3 Many Tongues, Many Civilian Practices: Toward a Prophetic Theology of Civil Society
6.3.1 The Apostolic Subversion of Civil Society: Prophetic Politics in Acts
6.3.2 The Empowering Spirit: Post-Secularity and the Redemption of Civil Society
6.3.3 The Pneumatological Imagination: Difference, harmony, and Communities of the Spirit
7. Pentecostal Health and Wealth: A Theology of Economics
7.1 Jesus as Healer: Pentecostal Health, Wealth, and Economics
7.1.1 Classical Pentecostal Health – and the Evolution of Wealth
7.1.2 Pentecostal Wealth: Prosperity in White and Black
7.1.3 Pentecostal Holistic Soteriology: Global Economics and Local Markets
7.2 The Economy, the Common Good, and the Catholic Social Teaching Tradition
7.2.1 On Healing as Economic Justice: The Scope of Catholic Social Teaching
7.2.2 Between Institutional Interventionism and Individual Initiative: American Catholic Interpretations
7.2.3 Subsidiarity and Solidarity: Catholic Social Principles for the Common Good
7.3 Many Tongues, Many Economies: Toward a Charismatic Politics of Healing and Shalom
7.3.1 Healing and “Having All Things in Common”: Poverty and Prosperity on the Way of Jesus
7.3.2 The Gift-Giving Spirit in the Church: Shalom beyond the Political Economy of Exchange
7.3.3 The Charismatic Imagination: Grace, Desire, and the Healing of the World
8. Pentecostal Hope: A Political Theology of History and the Eschaton
8.1 Jesus the Coming King: Coming for What?
8.1.1 Pentecostal Premillennialism and the Politics of Dispensationalism
8.1.2 Pentecostal Futurism and the End of History
8.1.3 Pentecostal Apocalypticism: The End of the World or the Arrival of the Spirit?
8.2 Whither Political Eschatologies? “In the Last Days… I Will Pour Out My Spirit…”
8.2.1 “… On Jews and Proselytes”: The Restoration of Israel, the Salvation of the Gentiles, and “Last Days” Politics
8.2.2 “… On… Every Nation Under Heaven”: Liberation, Forgiveness, and the Redemption of History
8.2.3 “… On All Flesh”: Green Theologies and the Renewal of the Cosmos
8.3 Many Tongues Anticipating the Final Consummation: Living as Eschatological Politics of Hope
8.3.1 “Times of Refreshing” from the Lord: A Lukan Glimpse of the Universal Restoration
8.3.2 Performing Political Eschatologies: Theology and the Public Square between Now and Not Yet
8.3.3 The Eschatological Imagination: Toward a Political Theology of Suffering and Hope