Veli‐Matti Kärkkäinen
Biographic Data
| ID | 9150467 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Veli‐Matti Kärkkäinen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Veli‐Matti |
| FAMILY NAME | Kärkkäinen |
| SIGNATURE | KÄRKKÄINEN V M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fuller Theological Seminary |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5028-1141 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Discerning the Holy Spirit in the World of Religious Pluralism(s), Secularism(s), and Science(s): A Multilayered Constructive Christian Vision of Pneumatology for the Third Millennium
This essay seeks to reimagine Christian pneumatology in a radically new key. This plural and multilayered vision allows us to discern the presence and work of the Spirit of God in the cosmos, in the secular and religiously pluralistic world and society, as well as in Christian life at both the ecclesial and personal levels. No need to mention that this kind of authentically Christian reimagining can only be accomplished in an integral trinitarian…
On Certainty , Proper Confidence , and Doubt: A Postfoundationalist and Critical Realist Epistemology for Doing Constructive Theology
The present essay 1 seeks to focus on the meaning and challenges of doubt and lack of certainty in the context of doing academic theological work, whether in a Seminary setting such as my own, Fuller Theological Seminary, or in a “secular” university setting such as the University of Helsinki, my other institution. Throughout, I am raising questions such as whether any kind of certainty or confidence is available in the work of theology, particul…
A Constructive Trinitarian Theology of the First Article for the Religiously Pluralistic and Secular World
Even laypersons, such as systematic theologians, who are not trained in law enforcement are familiar enough with crime investigation to know that the detective works circles around a few simple questions such as: Who committed the crime? What happened? How was the crime executed? Why did the criminal do what he or she did? In the first part of my essay, as a way of introducing the nature, “method,” and distinctive features as well as the motifs b…
Hope gone awry—An odd bed fellowship of Islamic and Christian neo‐apocalypticism
While the rise of neo‐apocalypticism, as it is called in Christian parlance, is a well‐known phenomenon to theologians and other scholars observing the current global religious landscape, the significance of neoapocalypticism in Islam is a less well‐known fact. Yet–and this makes the topic so significant theologically–between these two forms of intense eschatological expectations, astonishing cross‐breeding is taking place. This is counterintuiti…
Christian theology as comparative theology: Towards a radical change of “Method”
This essay makes a recommendation for an expansion in the approach and “method” of Christian theology: it proposes Christian theology as comparative theology. In the religiously pluralistic world, it is not sufficient merely to engage other faith traditions as an “auxiliary task.” Rather, the comparative task should belong to the “normal” way of doing “basic” Christian theological work. While Christian theology is not subsumed under comparative t…
What Have Lutherans Learned from Orthodox: Salvation as Union with God
The purpose of this article is to consider the influence of Eastern Orthodox theology and spirituality, particularly soteriology, upon the Lutheran doctrine of salvation. It focuses on the emergence of a new interpretation of Martin Luther’s view of justification as union and Christ’s “real” presence in the believer through the Holy Spirit. This account materially reflects key intuitions of the Eastern Orthodox vision of deification (divinization…
“‘Othering’ with Grace and Courage”: Reflections on the Dynamic Tension between Mutuality and Incommensurability
This kind of hospitable and mutually edifying encounter is possible by putting into practice the method of comparative theology which, while urging the faithful in every tradition to establish their own religious identity, also facilitates learning from the other and makes room for sharing one's own testimony. Not only theological and confessional but also autobiographical and life narratives matter in this process
A constructive Christian theology for the pluralistic world: Author's introduction of the project and a response to reviewers
The author of the five‐volume a Christian theology for the pluralistic world (Eerdmans, 2013–2017), Veli‐Matti Kärkkäinen, introduces the nature, distinctive features, and methodology of the project and also responds to the reviewers whose reviews have been included in this issue
Meaningful life in a meaningless cosmos? A short reflection for good times—and bad
The challenge of discerning between the genuine and counterfeit ‘Signs of the Spirit’: Toward a Pentecostal theology of the discernment of the Spirit(s)
This essay seeks to identify, assess, and construct some guiding theological principles for Pentecostals for the sake of the discernment of the Spirit(s) in the religiously pluralistic and secular world. Pentecostals are known for claiming a ‘word of the Lord’, or a special prompting of the Spirit, or divine guidance to make a judgement. They are known for claiming an endowment for judging between the Holy Spirit and demonic spirits or spirits co…
Loving Father, Embodied Son, and Life-Giving Spirit: The Trinitarian Narrative and Liturgical Experience
“Epistemology, Ethos, and Environment”: In Search of a Theology of Pentecostal Theological Education
The purpose of this essay is to take a theological look at Pentecostal theological education at the global level. While dialoguing widely with various current and historical discussions of the theology of theological education, particularly with David Kelsey of Yale University, the essay urges Pentecostals to negotiate an epistemology that corrects and goes beyond both modernity and postmodernity. The essay also urges Pentecostals to negotiate se…
Pentecostal Theological Education in a Theological and Missiological Perspective
While Pentecostals have been busy in building Bible schools and more recently theological seminaries and other institutions of higher learning, they have paid little or no attention to the theological basis of their education. Usually theological education follows the precepts and standards of Evangelical and other Conservative traditions. This essay seeks to reflect on the distinctively Pentecostal features of Pentecostal theological education, …
‘The Leaning Tower of Mission in a Postmodern Land’ Ecumenical Reflections on Pentecostal Mission in the After-Edinburgh World
Following the Edinburgh meeting? I took a trip with my wife touring widely in Southern Europe. One of the monuments my wife always wanted to photograph is the famous leaning tower in Pisa, Italy. What struck me about this tower is that it seems to be leaning in all directions. From whichever angle you are looking at it, it is leaning! Allow me to use that metaphor as the lens through which I seek to offer reflections on Pentecostal-Charismatic mi…
The Trajectories of the Contemporary 'Trinitarian Renaissance' in Different Contexts
Brill is delighted to announce that it has renewed its Transformative Agreement with Jisc in the UK for 2023-2024. Brill is one of the leading academic publishers in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Biology, with a broad Open Access portfolio consisting of more than 1,100 books and several thousand journal articles.
‘Encountering Christ in the Full Gospel Way’: An Incarnational Pentecostal Spirituality
The centre of Pentecostal theology is the idea of the ‘Full Gospel’ which speaks of Christ in his various roles as Saviour, Sanctifier, Healer, Baptizer with the Spirit, and the Soon-coming-King. Therefore, Pentecostalism represents –differently from the assumptions of many outside observers –a unique Christocentric Spirit movement. The heart of Pentecostal spirituality is thus the encounter with Christ through the Holy Spirit in worship, in heal…
The Cambridge Companion to Evangelical Theology
Evangelicalism, a vibrant and growing expression of historic Christian orthodoxy, is already one of the largest and most geographically diverse global religious movements. This Companion, first published in 2007, offers an articulation of evangelical theology that is both faithful to historic evangelical convictions and in dialogue with contemporary intellectual contexts and concerns. In addition to original and creative essays on central Christi…
"March Forward to Hope": Yonggi Cho's Pentecostal Theology of Hope
Pentecostal theology of mission in the making
While Pentecostals are known for productive and widespread mission work, theological reflection has not kept up with praxis. In recent years, however, a number of leading Pentecostal theologians have started to reflect on key issues such as what are the underlying motifs and distinguishing features as well as urgent challenges facing Pentecostal mission, social concern and relation to other religions, among others. This essays attempts to offer a…
The Working of the Spirit of God in Creation and in the People of God: The Pneumatology of Wolfhart Pannenberg
The Pentecostal Movement in Finland
suomi kuuluu maailman luterilaisimpiin mahin, sillä nykyisinkin noin 87% kansasta kuuluu luterilaiseen kirkkoon. Helluntailaiset ovat suurin vapaiden kristittyjen ryhmä: suomenkielisiä seurakuntia oli vuoden 1996 lopussa 223, jäsenmäärän ollessa 46.300. Ruotsinkielisä helluntaiseurakuntia oli samaan aikaan 32 ja jäseniä 2.700. Suurin paikallisseurakunta on Helsingin Saalem, vuoden 1997 lopussa 3.169 jäsentä Helluntaiherätys tuli Suomeen 1900-luvu…
The Holy Spirit and Justification: The Ecumenical Significance of Luther's Doctrine of Salvation
David's Sling: The Promise and the Problem of Pentecostal Theology Today: A Response to D. Lyle Dabney
“From the ends of the earth to the ends of the earth” - The Expansion of Finnish Pentecostal Missions from 1927-1997
(2000). “From the ends of the earth to the ends of the earth” - The Expansion of Finnish Pentecostal Missions from 1927-1997. Journal of the European Pentecostal Theological Association: Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 116-131
One Hundred Years of Pentecostal Missions: A Report on the European Pentecostal/Charismatic Research Association's 1999 Meeting
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Pentecostal Hermeneutics in the Making: On the Way From Fundamentalism to Postmodernism
(1998). Pentecostal Hermeneutics in the Making: On the Way From Fundamentalism to Postmodernism. Journal of the European Pentecostal Theological Association: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 76-115
Authority, Revelation, and Interpretation in the Roman Catholic-Pentecostal Dialogue
“From the ends of the earth to the ends of the earth” - The Expansion of Finnish Pentecostal Missions from 1927-1997
(2000). “From the ends of the earth to the ends of the earth” - The Expansion of Finnish Pentecostal Missions from 1927-1997. Journal of the European Pentecostal Theological Association: Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 116-131
One Hundred Years of Pentecostal Missions: A Report on the European Pentecostal/Charismatic Research Association's 1999 Meeting
An Exercise On the Frontiers of Ecumenism: Almost Thirty Years of Roman Catholic-Pentecostal Dialogue
David's Sling: The Promise and the Problem of Pentecostal Theology Today: A Response to D. Lyle Dabney
The Holy Spirit and Justification: The Ecumenical Significance of Luther's Doctrine of Salvation
The Pentecostal Movement in Finland
suomi kuuluu maailman luterilaisimpiin mahin, sillä nykyisinkin noin 87% kansasta kuuluu luterilaiseen kirkkoon. Helluntailaiset ovat suurin vapaiden kristittyjen ryhmä: suomenkielisiä seurakuntia oli vuoden 1996 lopussa 223, jäsenmäärän ollessa 46.300. Ruotsinkielisä helluntaiseurakuntia oli samaan aikaan 32 ja jäseniä 2.700. Suurin paikallisseurakunta on Helsingin Saalem, vuoden 1997 lopussa 3.169 jäsentä Helluntaiherätys tuli Suomeen 1900-luvu…
Pentecostal theology of mission in the making
While Pentecostals are known for productive and widespread mission work, theological reflection has not kept up with praxis. In recent years, however, a number of leading Pentecostal theologians have started to reflect on key issues such as what are the underlying motifs and distinguishing features as well as urgent challenges facing Pentecostal mission, social concern and relation to other religions, among others. This essays attempts to offer a…
The Working of the Spirit of God in Creation and in the People of God: The Pneumatology of Wolfhart Pannenberg
"March Forward to Hope": Yonggi Cho's Pentecostal Theology of Hope
‘Encountering Christ in the Full Gospel Way’: An Incarnational Pentecostal Spirituality
The centre of Pentecostal theology is the idea of the ‘Full Gospel’ which speaks of Christ in his various roles as Saviour, Sanctifier, Healer, Baptizer with the Spirit, and the Soon-coming-King. Therefore, Pentecostalism represents –differently from the assumptions of many outside observers –a unique Christocentric Spirit movement. The heart of Pentecostal spirituality is thus the encounter with Christ through the Holy Spirit in worship, in heal…
The Cambridge Companion to Evangelical Theology
Evangelicalism, a vibrant and growing expression of historic Christian orthodoxy, is already one of the largest and most geographically diverse global religious movements. This Companion, first published in 2007, offers an articulation of evangelical theology that is both faithful to historic evangelical convictions and in dialogue with contemporary intellectual contexts and concerns. In addition to original and creative essays on central Christi…
The Trajectories of the Contemporary 'Trinitarian Renaissance' in Different Contexts
Brill is delighted to announce that it has renewed its Transformative Agreement with Jisc in the UK for 2023-2024. Brill is one of the leading academic publishers in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Biology, with a broad Open Access portfolio consisting of more than 1,100 books and several thousand journal articles.
Pentecostal Theological Education in a Theological and Missiological Perspective
While Pentecostals have been busy in building Bible schools and more recently theological seminaries and other institutions of higher learning, they have paid little or no attention to the theological basis of their education. Usually theological education follows the precepts and standards of Evangelical and other Conservative traditions. This essay seeks to reflect on the distinctively Pentecostal features of Pentecostal theological education, …
‘The Leaning Tower of Mission in a Postmodern Land’ Ecumenical Reflections on Pentecostal Mission in the After-Edinburgh World
Following the Edinburgh meeting? I took a trip with my wife touring widely in Southern Europe. One of the monuments my wife always wanted to photograph is the famous leaning tower in Pisa, Italy. What struck me about this tower is that it seems to be leaning in all directions. From whichever angle you are looking at it, it is leaning! Allow me to use that metaphor as the lens through which I seek to offer reflections on Pentecostal-Charismatic mi…
“Epistemology, Ethos, and Environment”: In Search of a Theology of Pentecostal Theological Education
The purpose of this essay is to take a theological look at Pentecostal theological education at the global level. While dialoguing widely with various current and historical discussions of the theology of theological education, particularly with David Kelsey of Yale University, the essay urges Pentecostals to negotiate an epistemology that corrects and goes beyond both modernity and postmodernity. The essay also urges Pentecostals to negotiate se…
Loving Father, Embodied Son, and Life-Giving Spirit: The Trinitarian Narrative and Liturgical Experience
The challenge of discerning between the genuine and counterfeit ‘Signs of the Spirit’: Toward a Pentecostal theology of the discernment of the Spirit(s)
This essay seeks to identify, assess, and construct some guiding theological principles for Pentecostals for the sake of the discernment of the Spirit(s) in the religiously pluralistic and secular world. Pentecostals are known for claiming a ‘word of the Lord’, or a special prompting of the Spirit, or divine guidance to make a judgement. They are known for claiming an endowment for judging between the Holy Spirit and demonic spirits or spirits co…
“‘Othering’ with Grace and Courage”: Reflections on the Dynamic Tension between Mutuality and Incommensurability
This kind of hospitable and mutually edifying encounter is possible by putting into practice the method of comparative theology which, while urging the faithful in every tradition to establish their own religious identity, also facilitates learning from the other and makes room for sharing one's own testimony. Not only theological and confessional but also autobiographical and life narratives matter in this process
A constructive Christian theology for the pluralistic world: Author's introduction of the project and a response to reviewers
The author of the five‐volume a Christian theology for the pluralistic world (Eerdmans, 2013–2017), Veli‐Matti Kärkkäinen, introduces the nature, distinctive features, and methodology of the project and also responds to the reviewers whose reviews have been included in this issue
Meaningful life in a meaningless cosmos? A short reflection for good times—and bad
What Have Lutherans Learned from Orthodox: Salvation as Union with God
The purpose of this article is to consider the influence of Eastern Orthodox theology and spirituality, particularly soteriology, upon the Lutheran doctrine of salvation. It focuses on the emergence of a new interpretation of Martin Luther’s view of justification as union and Christ’s “real” presence in the believer through the Holy Spirit. This account materially reflects key intuitions of the Eastern Orthodox vision of deification (divinization…
Hope gone awry—An odd bed fellowship of Islamic and Christian neo‐apocalypticism
While the rise of neo‐apocalypticism, as it is called in Christian parlance, is a well‐known phenomenon to theologians and other scholars observing the current global religious landscape, the significance of neoapocalypticism in Islam is a less well‐known fact. Yet–and this makes the topic so significant theologically–between these two forms of intense eschatological expectations, astonishing cross‐breeding is taking place. This is counterintuiti…
Christian theology as comparative theology: Towards a radical change of “Method”
This essay makes a recommendation for an expansion in the approach and “method” of Christian theology: it proposes Christian theology as comparative theology. In the religiously pluralistic world, it is not sufficient merely to engage other faith traditions as an “auxiliary task.” Rather, the comparative task should belong to the “normal” way of doing “basic” Christian theological work. While Christian theology is not subsumed under comparative t…
Philosophy (25 works) · Theology (24 works) · Christian Theology and Mission (20 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies (15 works) · Religious studies (13 works) · Epistemology (12 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (10 works) · Constructive (6 works) · History (6 works)