Lexington Books / Fortress Academic
Pages: 156
Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-9787-1056-6 • Hardback • January 2025 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
978-1-9787-1057-3 • eBook • December 2024 • $45.00 • (£35.00) (coming soon)
Spencer Moffatt, PhD, is an independent scholar and hospice chaplain in Minneapolis, MN.
Introduction: From Dualism to Nondualism
Chapter 1: Tracing the Groundwork
Chapter 2: Amos Yong on Trinity, Dialectics, and Transcendence
Chapter 3: Žižek’s Hegelian Dialectics
Chapter 4: Žižek on Transcendence and Trinity vis-à-vis Dialectics
Chapter 5: A Speculative Modification of Amos Yong’s Trinity, Dialectic, and Transcendence
Chapter 6: God the Negative
Moffatt takes Yong’s theology to a place that is more-than-Yong, yet it is inherent to Yong’s thought, intrinsic to its excessive core. Spencer Moffatt, in reading Yong to regain or uncover the creative impulses that Yong ignored in the actualization of his thought, exposes Yong’s oeuvre to a new audience of critical theorists and radical theologians. In doing this, Moffatt himself shines (abides) in the glory of continental-philosophy-informed pentecostal theology. This book ultimately announces Moffatt as a careful and rigorous thinker and a powerhouse in the catalytic discipline of pentecostal philosophical theology.
— Nimi Wariboko, Boston University
This book requires us to rethink not only our views, but our assumptions. By providing a critical reading of Yong’s pentecostal theology alongside a constructive proposal for Žižek’s philosophy, Moffatt presents a robust new model for overcoming dualism in the name of greater coherence between theology and philosophy. Challenging yet invitational, this book positions Moffatt as a thinker who is changing the landscape of philosophical theology in real time.
— J. Aaron Simmons, Furman University; author of God and the Other