Jonathan Boyd

In this MA dissertation, I  argue against the ‘latecomer to dispensationalism’ view on the eschatology of early Pentecostals. Following a ‘family resemblance’ method of discussing dispensationalism, I argue that the early Pentecostals may correctly be understood as proponents of a broader dispensationalism, a theological vision that gained popularity within Moody’s ‘interdenominational evangelicalism’. Following an introduction to the topic and a select literature review in which the popularity of the ‘latecomer’ view was shown, I examined the eschatological approaches available at the beginning of the 20th century in chapter one. In chapter two, I used four periodicals to argue that the early Pentecostals were dispensationalists in a broad sense of the term. They held to the main features of dispensationalism, such as a belief in the division of history into dispensations, the distinction between Israel and the Church, the rapture and a literal thousand-year millennium. In chapter three, I brought out several implications of this analysis.

In this essay, I place Amos Yong and John Webster in dialogue on the organisation of systematic theology, interacting especially on Yong's book 'Renewing Christian Theology: Systematics for a Global Christianity'.
This was an essay for a hermeneutics course I took at the University of Birmingham.

The Colombian sociologist William Mauricio Beltrán provides the impetus for this literature review when, speaking of an indigenous tribe in Colombia, he states that ‘the Pentecostal presence has occasioned a process of restructuring of the Wayúu identity’.  Certainly this has been the case with the Wayúu people, but Beltrán’s comment applies to the entire religious landscape of Colombia. The country, following religious trends on the continent, has opened wide to Protestantism, particularly of the Pentecostal kind. The growth of the Protestant evangelical movement in the country has led to a ‘restructuring’ of the identity of many Colombians, or in the words of Jean-Pierre Bastian a ‘religious mutation’.

In this essay, I propose to examine Pentecostalism’s relationship to dispensationalism in order to ascertain whether dispensationalism is a piece of Saul’s armour that should be discarded by Pentecostals. This was my paper for the course 'Pentecostal/Charismatic Theology in Context' at the University of Birmingham.

In this essay, written for a course at the University of Birmingham, I examine some of the theological distintives of the Fraternidad Teológica Latinoamericana with the goal of understanding one expression of Protestant Evangelicalism in a Latin American context.