Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-223) and index.

The pentecostal principle -- Emergence and ethics: the ethos of -- Pneumatological methodology -- Many tongues of pentecost: ethical methodology -- As a paradigm of pluralism -- The pentecostal spirit: way of being -- For the pentecostal principle -- The promise of the pentecostal principle: religion as play -- Epilogue: the end which is to come.

This book formulates the Pentecostal principle -- the capacity of social existence to begin something new -- and applies it specifically to the field of ethical methodology. Nimi Wariboko engages contemporary philosophers, from Hannah Arendt to Giorgia Agamben and others working in the Tillichian tradition, as he develops an understanding of how Pentecostal thought sheds new light on the nature, task, and project of social ethics. With an eye for both the intrinsic playfulness of Pentecostal practice and the realities of global pluralism, Wariboko contributes a distinctively Pentecostal voice to ongoing conversations in political theology, social ethics, public theology, and philosophy.--From publisher's description.