What is forming you? We often assume that our identities are formed and created only when we intend them to be. But what if our quest for discerning the deepest truths about ourselves, our God, and our world are already governed by appetites and ways of thinking that are so fixed in our collective imaginations, we don't even know that they're there? This book is aimed at exposing those hidden assumptions that have kept us feeling like God is distant while we remain divided, anxious, and af...

Insofar as Christian theology aims to make truthful claims about the nature of reality, it is necessarily involved in the enterprise of metaphysics. Pentecostals, precisely as Christians, are thus obliged to participate. Through this study it becomes evident that pentecostals aim to participate in the metaphysical discipline in the same way they theologize - that is, informed by the norms, practices, and speech acts that constitute their spirituality.This book aims to construct a C...