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Daniel Castelo

William Kellon Quick Professor of Theology and Methodist Studies
Divinity School

Selected Publications


Holy Spirit

Chapter · November 17, 2022 What is Christian Doctrine? This Companion guides students and scholars through the key issues in the contemporary practice of Christian theology. ... Cite

God

Chapter · July 31, 2022 This volume re-examines the history of twentieth-century Christian theology by tracing key concepts, problems and themes as they develop in context with new perspectives opened up by contemporary theology itself. ... Cite

Flame of Love A Theology of the Holy Spirit

Book · April 5, 2022 For this second edition, theologian Daniel Castelo draws from his experience using this book in the classroom to add helpful commentary and brief reflections on each chapter. ... Cite

T&T Clark Handbook of Pneumatology

Book · September 17, 2020 This handbook provides an interdisciplinary and diverse reference work to the Holy Spirit. ... Cite

Caring for Contemporary Mystics: Pentecostalism and the Mystical Worldview

Journal Article Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care · May 1, 2020 Pentecostals can be understood as contemporary Christian mystics, and doing so can aid one in both understanding and caring for them. The task of understanding them is facilitated by this category in that it allows one to inhabit a different mindset from w ... Full text Cite

Introduction: Confessing the Holy Spirit

Journal Article T and T Clark Handbook of Pneumatology · January 1, 2020 Cite

Mysticism and renewal

Chapter · January 1, 2020 Cite

Latinx Perspectives

Chapter · January 1, 2020 Cite

T&T CLARK HANDBOOK OF PNEUMATOLOGY

Book · January 1, 2020 This handbook provides an interdisciplinary and diverse reference work to the Holy Spirit. Daniel Castelo and Kenneth M. Loyer gathered together a wide range of voices that are religiously, geographically, and ethnically diverse, bringing theology into con ... Cite

The Marks of Scripture Rethinking the Nature of the Bible

Book · February 19, 2019 This volume written by a theologian and a biblical scholar offers a fresh model for understanding Scripture as God's Word. ... Cite

Roundtable discussion

Journal Article Pneuma · January 1, 2018 Full text Cite

The Usefulness of Scripture Essays in Honor of Robert W. Wall

Book · 2018 A collection of essays covering theology and methodology--emphasizing Wesleyan biblical hermeneutics, canonical perspectives, and the implications of these approaches for church life and work--as well as biblical texts/themes and the ... ... Cite

Embodying Wesley’s Catholic Spirit

Book · March 16, 2017 This book explores this question from a number of angles and goes on to embody some of these possibilities in conversation with other major traditions and figures within the Christian church. ... Cite

Charisma and apophasis: A dialogue with sarah coakley's god, sexuality, and the self

Journal Article Journal of Pentecostal Theology · January 1, 2017 This article continues the engagement of Sarah Coakley's God, Sexuality and the Self, here in reference to the themes of charisma and apophasis. As to the first, Coakley takes a nuanced approach to charismatic spirituality in the volume based on fieldwork ... Full text Cite

Pentecostalism as a Christian Mystical Tradition

Book · 2017 In this book Castelo argues that Pentecostalism is actually best understood as a Christian mystical tradition. ... Cite

Impassibility (Divine)

Chapter · January 1, 2017 Cite

Diakrisis Always En Conjunto: First Theology Understood from a Latino/a Context

Chapter · January 1, 2016 Daniel Castelo presses the importance of communities for interpretation as he uses the Latina/o notion of en conjunto or “being with others” as critical to reading Scripture “in the Spirit,” so that a pneumatology of Scriptural interpretation is brought to ... Full text Cite

Hosea

Book · October 21, 2015 The Two Horizons Old Testament Commentary J. Gordon McConville and Craig Bartholomew, General Editors Two features distinguish The Two Horizons Old Testament Commentary series: theological exegesis and theological reflection. ... Cite

Holy Spirit

Chapter · November 17, 2022 What is Christian Doctrine? This Companion guides students and scholars through the key issues in the contemporary practice of Christian theology. ... Cite

God

Chapter · July 31, 2022 This volume re-examines the history of twentieth-century Christian theology by tracing key concepts, problems and themes as they develop in context with new perspectives opened up by contemporary theology itself. ... Cite

Flame of Love A Theology of the Holy Spirit

Book · April 5, 2022 For this second edition, theologian Daniel Castelo draws from his experience using this book in the classroom to add helpful commentary and brief reflections on each chapter. ... Cite

T&T Clark Handbook of Pneumatology

Book · September 17, 2020 This handbook provides an interdisciplinary and diverse reference work to the Holy Spirit. ... Cite

Caring for Contemporary Mystics: Pentecostalism and the Mystical Worldview

Journal Article Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care · May 1, 2020 Pentecostals can be understood as contemporary Christian mystics, and doing so can aid one in both understanding and caring for them. The task of understanding them is facilitated by this category in that it allows one to inhabit a different mindset from w ... Full text Cite

Introduction: Confessing the Holy Spirit

Journal Article T and T Clark Handbook of Pneumatology · January 1, 2020 Cite

Mysticism and renewal

Chapter · January 1, 2020 Cite

Latinx Perspectives

Chapter · January 1, 2020 Cite

T&T CLARK HANDBOOK OF PNEUMATOLOGY

Book · January 1, 2020 This handbook provides an interdisciplinary and diverse reference work to the Holy Spirit. Daniel Castelo and Kenneth M. Loyer gathered together a wide range of voices that are religiously, geographically, and ethnically diverse, bringing theology into con ... Cite

The Marks of Scripture Rethinking the Nature of the Bible

Book · February 19, 2019 This volume written by a theologian and a biblical scholar offers a fresh model for understanding Scripture as God's Word. ... Cite

Roundtable discussion

Journal Article Pneuma · January 1, 2018 Full text Cite

The Usefulness of Scripture Essays in Honor of Robert W. Wall

Book · 2018 A collection of essays covering theology and methodology--emphasizing Wesleyan biblical hermeneutics, canonical perspectives, and the implications of these approaches for church life and work--as well as biblical texts/themes and the ... ... Cite

Embodying Wesley’s Catholic Spirit

Book · March 16, 2017 This book explores this question from a number of angles and goes on to embody some of these possibilities in conversation with other major traditions and figures within the Christian church. ... Cite

Charisma and apophasis: A dialogue with sarah coakley's god, sexuality, and the self

Journal Article Journal of Pentecostal Theology · January 1, 2017 This article continues the engagement of Sarah Coakley's God, Sexuality and the Self, here in reference to the themes of charisma and apophasis. As to the first, Coakley takes a nuanced approach to charismatic spirituality in the volume based on fieldwork ... Full text Cite

Pentecostalism as a Christian Mystical Tradition

Book · 2017 In this book Castelo argues that Pentecostalism is actually best understood as a Christian mystical tradition. ... Cite

Impassibility (Divine)

Chapter · January 1, 2017 Cite

Diakrisis Always En Conjunto: First Theology Understood from a Latino/a Context

Chapter · January 1, 2016 Daniel Castelo presses the importance of communities for interpretation as he uses the Latina/o notion of en conjunto or “being with others” as critical to reading Scripture “in the Spirit,” so that a pneumatology of Scriptural interpretation is brought to ... Full text Cite

Hosea

Book · October 21, 2015 The Two Horizons Old Testament Commentary J. Gordon McConville and Craig Bartholomew, General Editors Two features distinguish The Two Horizons Old Testament Commentary series: theological exegesis and theological reflection. ... Cite

Transformation and Pentecostal Theology

Journal Article Journal of Pentecostal Theology · January 1, 2015 This article serves as an introduction to a dialogue with Oliver Davies regarding his proposal for transformational theology. The dialogue identifies some of the implications of Davies' proposals for Pentecostal theology. This first essay, which follows th ... Full text Cite

Pneumatology: A Guide for the Perplexed

Book · January 1, 2015 This guide aims to elaborate and constructively engage some of the ongoing dogmatic challenges within the field of Christian pneumatology. Rather than a strict survey, the book largely represents a collection of working proposals on a number of relevant th ... Cite

What if Miracles don't happen?: Empowerment for longsuffering

Journal Article Journal of Pentecostal Theology · October 16, 2014 Theodical concerns are intricately embedded within accounts of divine healing and miracles. The following essay highlights some of these challenges for Pentecostals and charismatics, those who are especially affected by the point. What is needed in context ... Full text Cite

Confessing the Triune God

Book · July 21, 2014 The work seeks to guide readers through a process of growing awareness of how the dogma of the Trinity is central to all that Christians say, do, and hope to be. ... Cite

The spirit, creaturehood and sanctification: On avoiding theological overcompensation

Journal Article International Journal of Systematic Theology · April 1, 2014 Talk of the Spirit's work of sanctification often leads to a number of different conclusions, ones that often appear mutually exclusive. Under such conditions, their espousers often make cases for their views in overcompensatory ways by highlighting their ... Full text Cite

Editorial

Journal Article International Journal of Systematic Theology · April 1, 2014 Full text Cite

Holiness as a Liberal Art

Book · July 18, 2012 The essays collected in this volume treat the theme of holiness from a variety of theological disciplines, all with the purpose of disabusing Christians from mischaracterizations of the theme as well as offering a vision for what the ... ... Cite

Theological Theodicy

Book · June 1, 2012 Most significantly, these efforts have generally been insufficiently theological. This work hopes to subvert and reconfigure the theodical task in a way that can be accessible to nonspecialists. ... Cite

Canonical theism as ecclesial and ecumenical resource

Journal Article Pneuma · November 28, 2011 This article seeks to survey the movement of canonical theism as a way of introducing it to a Pentecostal readership for the purpose of establishing possible links that could be beneficial for both groups. In particular, the essay utilizes some of the clai ... Full text Cite

An apologia for divine impassibility: Toward pentecostal prolegomena

Journal Article Journal of Pentecostal Theology · January 1, 2010 This article focuses on the possibilities of maintaining divine impassibility for the viability of Pentecostal theology. the author integrates both his own experience as a believer and his sensibilities as an academic to provide an alternative narration of ... Full text Cite

Moltmann's dismissal of divine impassibility: Warranted?

Journal Article Scottish Journal of Theology · December 1, 2009 A key feature of Jürgen Moltmann's doctrine of God is his dismissal of divine impassibility as a heretical importation of Hellenistic metaphysics. This argument is a broader one assumed among many detractors of this theological tenet that is illegitimate g ... Full text Cite

The Apathetic God Exploring the Contemporary Relevance of Divine Impassibility

Book · October 1, 2009 This work seeks to create a via media between the tradition of divine impassibility and the contemporary preference for divine possibility within formal theological reflection. ... Cite

ORTHOPATHOS

Chapter · January 1, 2009 Cite

A Crisis in God-Talk? The Bible and Theopathy

Journal Article Theology · January 1, 2007 Full text Cite

Tarrying on the lord: Affections, virtues and theological ethics in pentecostal perspective

Journal Article Journal of Pentecostal Theology · January 1, 2004 As Pentecostals begin to inquire what might constitute Pentecostal theology, the matter must also arise as to what constitutes Pentecostal ethics, both as a matter of logical sequence and as a necessity given the historical and theological links the Pentec ... Full text Cite

Hosea

Journal Article Quarterly Review · September 1, 1985 Link to item Cite