Amos Yong holds a PhD from Boston University. He is a professor of theology and mission at Fuller Theological Seminary. Since joining Fuller in 2014, he has held several leadership roles, including dean of both the former School of Intercultural Studies and the former School of Theology, and chief academic officer for the 2020-2021 academic year. Prior to Fuller, he served as dean and J. Rodman Williams Professor of Theology at Regent University’s School of Divinity.
Dr Amos is the author or editor of over 60 books and more than 275 scholarly articles. His research focuses on Pentecostal theology, Christian-Buddhist dialogue, the theology of disability, and the mission of God. His work has also addressed themes such as science and faith, theologies of hospitality, political theology, and the theology of religions. Notable works include Renewing the Church by the Spirit: Theological Education after Pentecost (2020) and Can “White” People Be Saved?: Triangulating Race, Theology, and Mission (2018). Recent titles include Uncovering the Pearl: The Hidden Story of Christianity in Asia (Cascade Books, 2023) and Trauma and Renewal: Toward a Spiritual Communal and Holistic Transformation (Orbis Books, 2025), a collaborative work with his wife Alma and son Aizaiah, who serves as the primary author.
Prior to Fuller, Dr Amos taught at Regent University and Bethel University and has served in pastoral ministry. Currently, while continuing his faculty responsibilities at Fuller, he is also senior fellow in residence at the Center for Theological Inquiry in Princeton, New Jersey. He remains actively engaged in both academic and church contexts, shaping the landscape of Pentecostal theological education and application.
The outpouring of the Spirit at Pentecost unleashed a multiplicity of tongues, each a witness, each a testimony. This presentation invites us to consider how this linguistic diversity not only affirms the personal and cultural specificity of Christian witness but also opens up a theology of profession and vocation. From the mother tongue to the marketplace, the Spirit empowers believers to testify through word and deed, through speech and skill. Drawing from Acts and Pentecostal experience, the paper explores how testimony flows from lived encounter, and how professions—whether seamstress, tentmaker, or scholar—become Spirit-filled expressions of divine calling. Vocation, then, is not singular but plural, shaped by the rhythms of life, the transitions of career, and the ongoing work of the Spirit. In this vision, Pentecost is not a moment but a movement, one that calls every believer to bear witness in their own language, in their own work, and in their own way.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a therapeutic approach to the human psyche that recognizes a multiplicity of sub-personal “parts” in response to life’s ebbs-and-flows resulting often with the obfuscation of the core personal Self. This article brings IFS into dialogue with theological anthropology by situating the IFS understanding of the parts-and-the-Self against the backdrop of dominant theological and psychological models of the human person and by an initial engagement with pentecostal spirituality, in particular, recent developments that foreground the Day of Pentecost narrative as a foundational theological resource. We suggest both that IFS can inform the nascent and embryonic exploration of a pneumatological anthropology on the one hand and spiritually oriented practitioners of IFS can be further undergirded with theologies that are holistic, embodied, and engaged on the other hand.
