Pentecostalism, Postmodernism, and Reformed Epistemology: James K. A. Smith and the Contours of a Postmodern Christian Epistemology [Paperback]

InPentecostalism, Postmodernism, and Reformed Epistemology, Yoon Shin critically builds on James K. A. Smiths postmodern Pentecostal epistemology with the aid of Reformed epistemology. It takes the reader through an interdisciplinary journey that exposits and illumines the relationship among Pentecostal spirituality, continental and analytic philosophy, postliberalism, moral psychology, and philosophy of emotion. This work clarifies misunderstandings of Smith, in Smith, and between continental and analytic epistemology, constructively and coherently synthesizing the sources through interdisciplinary analysis and thereby demonstrating the value of mashup philosophy. The resulting epistemology strengthens the mostly descriptive epistemology of Smith with the warrant criteria of Alvin Plantinga.Yoon Shinis associate professor of philosophical theology at Southeastern University.

Yoon Shins engaging study stages a constructive conversation few may have thought possiblenamely, that among Reformed epistemology, postmodern philosophy, and Pentecostal theology. The result is a substantive and creative proposala mashup epistemology, as Shin styles itthat greatly enriches our thinking about religious knowledge and the possibilities available for Christian reflection upon the quality of our knowledge. Philip G. Ziegler, University of Aberdeen

Combining the most stimulating debates of the last decade, Yoon Shin courageously ventures into the seemingly contradictory interests of Pentecostal, Evangelical, Reformed, and postmodern epistemologies through the lens of one of their chief interlocutors, James K.A. Smith. Critical and constructive, combining philosophy, theology, hermeneutics, and cultural studies, this conversation advocates for a postmodern Christian epistemology grounded in the concrete embodiment of the human situation. Wolfgang Vondey, University of Birmingham

In this significant work, Yoon Shin brings James K.A. Smithlck