Baptists and Pentecostals Unite? Guest Speaker Dr. Amos Yong Will Speak on Commonalities at the Willson-Addis Lecture Feb. 6
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WACO, Texas (Feb. 5, 2018) – Baylor University’s George W. Truett Theological Seminary will host Amos Yong, Ph.D., director of the Center for Missiological Research and professor of theology and mission at Fuller Theological Seminary, for the Willson-Addis Lecture at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 6, in Paul W. Powell Chapel, 1100 S. Third St.
“What do Baptists and Pentecostals have in common?” Amos asked. “Much more than many might expect, although these commonalities also stretch across wide differences. Might the dis/continuities be nevertheless used by the Holy Spirit for Christian witness today? That is the question I will discuss at the annual Willson-Addis lecture.”
Yong, an expert on Christian-Buddhist dialogue, disability, hospitality and the mission of God, will present his lecture, "Spirit-Baptized Witness: Toward a Bapticostal Theology and Praxis." The event is free and open to the public.
The Baylor Bookstore will set up a book exhibit of Yong’s books in the foyer outside the Paul W. Powell Chapel in Truett Seminary on Tuesday morning as well. Guests will be able to purchase Yong’s book before and after the lecture.
“Amos Yong is a widely recognized scholar-theologian about the Holy Spirit’s role in world spirituality,” said Roger E. Olson, Ph.D., Foy Valentine Professor of Christian Theology and Ethics at George W. Truett Theological Seminary. “In several well-received books he has examined and articulated a distinctive view of the Spirit’s universal work. Yong also stands out as a scholar thoroughly familiar with modern renewalism among Christians throughout the Global South.”
Yong has published four books with the Baylor University Press and is an editor for one of its book series. Some of his books include “Renewing Christian Theology - Systematics for a Global Christianity,” “Spirit of Love - A Trinitarian Theology of Grace” and “Theology and Down Syndrome - Reimagining Disability in Late Modernity.”
Yong has degrees from Bethany College of the Assemblies of God, Western Evangelical Seminary, Portland State University and Boston University. He began working at Fuller Seminary in July 2014 after leaving the Regent University School of Divinity, where he taught for nine years, serving most recently as J. Rodman Williams Professor of Theology and dean. Prior to that he was on the faculty at Bethel University in St. Paul, Bethany College of the Assemblies of God, and served as a pastor and worked in social and health services in Vancouver, Washington.
The Willson-Addis Lecture is made possible by a gift from Mr. and Mrs. James McCorry Willson of Floydada, Texas, who were active Methodist laity. The lectures, which examine practical Christianity, were named in honor of their daughter, Ora Eugenia Willson Addis. Lecturers are invited from any branch of the Judeo-Christian tradition.
For more information, visit the Truett Seminary website.
by Brooke Battersby, student newswriter, (254) 710-6805
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