This article examines the recent multivolume Christian Dogmatics, by Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen. The authors offer an overview to the postfoundationalist methodology of the work and assess how Kärkkäinen succeeds in his dialogue with the sciences and other religious traditions.
K E Y W O R D Sdogmatics, ecumenism, global theology, multiculturalism, postfoundationalism, science and religion
Spirit and Salvation is the fourth volume of a constructive theology series by Professor Veli‐Matti Kärkkäinen. It is a continuation of Kärkkäinen's impressive scholarship in Pneumatology and offers a fine example of his inclusive methodology. Especially important and informative is the section regarding spiritual powers and cosmology, which provides for an ecumenical audience a healthy understanding of demonic powers. Experience is one epistemological factor in Kärkkäinen's work, which is observed through methodology. An alternative way to approach theological method, from the female pentecostal perspective, which regards experience as important, is offered as an option or a continuation to Kärkkäinen's scholarship.
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