By Amos Yong

This number of essays was once first awarded on the thirty seventh annual assembly of the Society for Pentecostal stories, held together with the Wesleyan Theological Society at Duke collage in March 2008, less than the convention topic, "Signs, Sighs, and value: Pentecostal and Wesleyan Explorations of technology and construction" besides a significant other quantity of Wesleyan essays released additionally by way of Pickwick guides, the twelve chapters the following characterize either Pentecostal reflections/responses to the science-religion dialogue and Pentecostal contributions to the continuing alternate via religious study experts, historians, and theologians, between these expert in different disciplines. jointly the essayists version an exact discussion during which Pentecostal scholarly mirrored image is impacted via science-religion discourses at the one hand, whereas Pentecostals achieve deep into their very own culture to discover how their pre-understandings and commitments may possibly allow them to talk with their very own voice into pre-existing conversations nevertheless. This quantity therefore represents one of many first-hopefully the 1st of many-in which Pentecostals check in their views on a big factor of our time. In an international ruled via technological know-how, and at a time whilst theologies of construction that motivate and require deal with production and the surroundings are proliferating, The Spirit Renews the Face of the Earth presents a suite of Pentecostal views on those very important concerns.