Precedents and Possibilities: Pentecostal Perspectives on World Religions
16 Cf. Richie, “The Unity of the Spirit”.
17 So Wolfhart Pannenberg says, An Introduction to Systematic Theology (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1991 [1992 repr.]), pp. 53-5
18 King, Yet Speaketh, pp. 184-85, 199-200; cf. p. 231.
19 Walter J. Hollenweger, “Critical Issues for Pentecostals” in Allan Anderson and Walter J. Hollenweger, editors, Pentecostals after a Century: Global Perspectives on a Movement in Transition. (Journal of Pentecostal Theology Supplement Series 15 (Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999), pp. 176-91. Sir Norman Anderson used the Peter-Cornelius paradigm in Christianity and World Religions: The Challenge of Pluralism (Downer’s Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1984), noting that both benefitted by the dialogue; good dialogue may prepare the way for evangelism, or be a part of it; and, dialogue involves an element of risk but it is worth it when carried out with confidence in the lordship of Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit, pp. 188-91.
Category: Ministry, Spring 2006