The Science and Theology of Godly Love

Contributors

CONTRIbUTORS Paul Alexander is Professor of Christian Ethics and Public Policy at Palmer Theological Seminary of Eastern University in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, and author of Peace to War: Shifting Allegiances in the Assemblies of God. PeterAlthouse is Associate Professor of Religion and Theology at Southeastern University, Lakeland, Florida, and author of Spirit of the Last Days: Pentecostal Eschatology in Conversation with Jürgen Moltmann and The Ideological Development of “Power” in Early American Pentecostalism . Mark J. Cartledge is Director of the Centre for Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK; he is the author of a number of books in the field, including Testimony in the Spirit: Rescripting Ordinary Pentecostal Theology. Julie J. Exline, an Associate Professor of Psychology at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, ohio, specializes in research on spiritual struggles and forgiveness. RalphW.HoodJr. is Professor of Psychology at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, a past editor of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, and senior author of the Psychology of Religion: An Empirical Approach, 4th ed. Matthew T.Lee, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Akron in Akron, ohio, is coauthor of A Sociological Study of the Great Commandment in Pentecostalism and author of Crime on the Border. 234 Contributors Michael J. McClymond is Associate Professor in Theology at St. Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri, and editor of the Encyclopedia of Religious Revivals in America and Embodying the Spirit: New Perspectives on North American Revivalism. Thomas Jay Oord is Professor of Theology and Philosophy at Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, Idaho, author of Defining Love and The Nature of Love, and author or editor of more than a dozen other books. Margaret M. Poloma, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Akron in Akron, ohio, has written extensively about religious experience in contemporary American society, including pioneering studies of pentecostalism, prayer, and divine healing. Stephen G. Post is President of The Institute for Research on Unlimited Love and Professor of Preventive Medicine, head of the Division of Medicine in Society, and Director of the Center for Medical humanities , Compassionate Care and Bioethics at Stony Brook University in New York; and the author of seven books on self-giving love, including The Hidden Gifts of Helping. Arlene SánchezWalsh, Associate Professor of Church history and Latino Church Studies in the Graduate School of Theology at Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, California, is author of Latino Pentecostal Identity : Evangelical Faith, Self, and Society. AmosYong is J. Rodman Williams Professor of Theology at Regent University School of Divinity in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and the author or editor of more than 20 books, including most recently Pentecostalism and Prosperity: The Socio-Economics of the Global Charismatic Movement. ...