The Spirit renews the face of the earth : Pentecostal forays in science and theology of creation / edited by Amos Yong.

All but one essay were "originally presented at the thirty-eighth annual meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, jointly held with the Wesleyan Theological Society, at Duke University Divinity School on March 13-15, 2008"--Pref. p. ix.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction: Poured out on all creation!? : searching for the Spirit in the Pentecostal encounter with science / Amos Yong -- Pt. 1. Biblical interpretations. The face of God as his creating Spirit : the interplay of Yahweh's panim and ruach in Psalm 104:29-30 / Scott A. Ellington -- Created for shalom : human agency and responsibility in the world / R. Jerome Boone -- Revelation and the (new) creation : a prolegomenon on the apocalypse, science, and creation / Robby Waddell -- Pt. 2. Historical elaborations. Cautious co-belligerence? : the late nineteenth-century American divine healing movement and the promise of medical science / Bernie A. Van De Walle -- Creation revealed : an early Pentecostal hermeneutic / David S. Norris -- Evolving paradigms : creationism as Pentecostal variation on a fundamentalist theme / Gerald W. King -- Pt. 3. Theological explications. Preaching the "full gospel" in the context of global environmental crises / Shane Clifton -- Pentecostal ecology : a theological paradigm for Pentecostal environmentalism / Matthew Tallman -- Implications of the kenosis of the Spirit for a creational eschatology : a Pentecostal engagement with J�urgen Moltmann / Peter Althouse -- Pt. 4. Contextual and disciplinary applications. "God's laws of productivity" : creation in African Pentecostal hermeneutics / J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu -- Meaning-making and religious experience : a cognitive appraisal model of Pentecostal experiences of the Holy Spirit / Edward E. Decker, Jr. -- Teaching origins to Pentecostal students / Michael Tenneson and Steve Badger.