Pentecostal Preaching and Ministry in Multicultural and Post-Christian Canada - Hardcover

by Steven M. Studebaker (Editor)

Over the past forty years, Canada has become an increasingly secular, multicultural, and religiously plural society. Indeed, the church in Canada, and Pentecostals in particular, face a challenging context for responding to the call to bear witness to Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit. Like the disciples on the day of Pentecost, however, we need the Holy Spirit to come upon us and liberate us from our post-Christian pessimism. We need the Holy Spirit to enable us to proclaim the gospel to the nations, people that are no longer at the ends of the earth, but making their home in Canada. This book engages this new context, and considers and proposes ways that pentecostal Christians and churches can respond to the challenges of the increasingly post-Christian, multicultural, secular, and religiously plural context of Canadian society.

Author Biography

Steven M. Studebaker is the Howard and Shirley Bentall Chair in Evangelical Thought and Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology at McMaster Divinity College. He is the author of A Pentecostal Political Theology for American Renewal (2016) and From Pentecost to the Triune God (2012), as well as several other books on Jonathan Edwards's trinitarian theology and pentecostal theology.