In Pentecostalism, Postmodernism, and Reformed Epistemology, Yoon Shin critically builds on James K. A. Smith’s 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 Shin is associate professor of philosophical theology at Southeastern University.
ForewordAcknowledgementsIntroduction Part 1: Smith’s Pentecostal EpistemologyChapter 1: Pentecostal Spirituality and PostmodernismChapter 2: Pentecostal EpistemologyChapter 3: Pretheory, Theory, and Their Integrated Relationship Part 2: Smith’s Postmodern EpistemologyChapter 4: Postmodern Hermeneutic EpistemologyChapter 5: Smith the Relativist? Chapter 6: Against Narrative, Affective KnowledgePart 3: Reformed and Postmodern EpistemologyChapter 7: Plantinga’s Reformed Epistemology Chapter 8: Warranted Christian Belief Chapter 9: Reformed Epistemology, Postmodernism, and a Way ForwardConclusion: Contours of a Postmodern Christian EpistemologyGlossaryBibliographyIndexAbout the Author
For the initiated, this should be a good read. Its strengths lie in its success in systematizing a “mashup philosophy” and the care that it took for Shin to present the materials with a high level of accuracy.