European Pentecostal Philosophical Symposium 2025
Pentecostalism and Modern Philosophy
6. – 7. February 2025
The European Pentecostal philosophical symposium will be hosted on Friday 7 February 2025 at the Norwegian School of Leadership and Theology, Oslo and online for those who cannot attend in person. The symposium theme is “Pentecostalism and Modern Philosophy.” The aim is to bring the Pentecostal tradition into dialogue with modern philosophical schools, approaches, and philosophers, as well as to reflect on pressing contemporary philosophical questions from a Pentecostal perspective. This is not an exclusive symposium for Pentecostals, but anyone interested in connecting the Pentecostal movement with modern philosophy is welcome to join the conversation.
For further details and to register, please contact simo.frestadius@regents-tc.ac.uk.
Hosted by:
Prof. Karl-Inge Tangen
Prof. Knut-Willy Sæther
Dr Simo Frestadius
Programme
(Central European Time [CET])
Thursday Febr 6
19:00 Symposium dinner
On campus participants
For the dinner, please register interest with Knut-Willy Sæther (knut-willy.saether@hlt.no) by the morning of Monday 3 February 2025
Friday Febr 7
08:00 Welcome and devotions
08:30 Session 1
8:30-9:20 Karl Inge Tangen, “Musical metaphors as a key for developing a Pentecostal philosophy”
09:30 Session 2
09:30-10:10 Simo Frestadius, “Pentecostal philosophical pragmatism: on method and truth in dialogue with William James”
10:10-10:50 Knut-Willy Sæther, “Fallibilism, virtues and Pentecostal epistemology”
10:50-11:20 Coffee Break
11:20-12:00 John Daniel Andersen, “The point of departure and the problem of disagreement”
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Session 3
13:00-13:40 Deborah M. Davies, “Amos Yong and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: an emerging dialogue”
13:40-14:20 Juan Javier Castillo Noboa, “From the Spirit of God to the human spirit: a historical development of the concept of spirit”
14:20-14:50 Coffee Break
14:50-15:30 Larissa Kiyashchenko and Olga Zaprometova, “Pentecostalism in dialogue with philosophy of transdisciplinarity in Russia” (online presentation)
15:45 Session 4
15:45-16:30 L. William Oliverio Jr, “Pentecostalism as indigenous modern folk Christianity” (online presentation)
16:30-16:45 Concluding reflections
Dr. William (Bill) Oliverio Jr.
Dr. Bill Oliverio teaches faith integration courses for Northwest’s graduate programs beyond the College of Ministry. He is a philosophical theologian that specializes in hermeneutic or interpretation theory, theories of knowledge, and the relationship of Christian faith to the modern world.
He is co-editor-in-chief of Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, the author of Theological Hermeneutics in the Classical Pentecostal Tradition: A Typological Account (Brill, 2012/2014), which was a finalist for the Pneuma Book Award (best new book in Pentecostal studies), of Pentecostal Hermeneutics in the Late Modern World: Essays on the Condition of Our Interpretation (Pickwick, 2022), and of other articles, book chapters, and reviews. He has also co-edited, with Craig S. Keener, The Spirit throughout the Canon: Pentecostal Pneumatology (Brill, 2022), and, with Kenneth J. Archer, Constructive Pneumatological Hermeneutics in Pentecostal Christianity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). He is a member and on the executive committee of The Society for Pentecostal Studies, and he is a member of the American Academy of Religion.
An Assemblies of God minister, prior to coming to Northwest in 2020, he was Associate Academic Dean at The School of Urban Missions in El Dorado Hills, California (2017-2020), Pastor of Immanuel Church (Assemblies of God) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (2011-2017), and Lecturer in Theology at Marquette University (2007-2017).
He resides on Seattle’s Eastside with his wife and their two sons. He enjoys sports, especially soccer, reading, and spending time with family and friends.
