ABSTRACT

The first global horizon was that of author's own religious community, the modern Pentecostal-charismatic movement, and the second was the emergence finally in the twentieth century of religious traditions as worldwide phenomena. Spirit-Word-Community: Theological Hermeneutics in Trinitarian Perspective was an attempt to wrestle more deeply with some of foundational philosophical and theological questions. The author's response in Spirit-Word-Community cut across three domains in metaphysics, epistemology, and anthropology, each of which has implications for the quest for understanding the emergence of a global theological mind. Universal claims have to come to terms with metaphysical and ontological discourses. Finally, the author needed a theological anthropology which could begin to address the question of how human beings could encounter, respond to and reflect upon the divine. The result was an exemplary kind of global theological conversation, and that precisely because it was rooted locally in concrete communities, projects, and conversations.