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The Ancient Story of God-With-Us
What is forming you? We often assume that our identities are formed and created only when we intend them to be. But what if our quest for discerning the deepest truths about ourselves, our God, and our world are already governed by appetites and ways of thinking that are so fixed in our collective imaginations, we don't even know that they're there? This book is aimed at exposing those hidden assumptions that have kept us feeling like God is distant while we remain divided, anxious, and afraid--despite our best efforts to overcome through private prayer and Bible reading. The Ancient Story of God-With-Us is about the good news that you don't have to think or pray your way out of this wilderness by yourself. Through our storied identity with God, we have been gifted deep wells from which to draw again and again as the Spirit woos us deeper into the inexhaustible mystery of the triune God-with-us. God is alive. We have nothing to fear.
Insofar as Christian theology aims to make truthful claims about the nature of reality, it is necessarily involved in the enterprise of metaphysics. Pentecostals, precisely as Christians, are thus obliged to participate. Through this study it becomes evident that pentecostals aim to participate in the metaphysical discipline in the same way they theologize — that is, informed by the norms, practices, and speech acts that constitute their spirituality. This book aims to construct a Christian metaphysics that is at once attuned to pentecostal spirituality/theology and informed by the classical tradition of Christian metaphysics. Ultimately, this work offers a constructive and critical engagement with pentecostal spirituality, and with pentecostal theology via the larger ecumenical, creedal, and dogmatic metaphysical tradition. Thus, this book is explicitly and intentionally limited to understand metaphysics in conversation with the historical Christian tradition, and to understand a pentecostal vision of it.
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Ray Robles is a theologian, pastor, and teacher of theology. In 2024, he planted Archetype Church in Phoenix, Arizona, where he serves as Senior Pastor.
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Ray grew up in California’s Central Valley and has a rich family heritage of service to God and the Church. His maternal grandfather planted and pastored an Assemblies of God congregation in Hughson, California, for over 30 years; his paternal grandfather evangelized in Puerto Rico and California.
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Since his youth, Ray has served the Church in some capacity; however, in 2010, he felt God call him to full-time ministry and teaching. He finished his undergraduate education, then went on to pursue his Master of Theological Studies at Pentecostal Theological Seminary in Cleveland, Tennessee. He holds a PhD in Philosophy and Theology from Bangor University in Wales, United Kingdom.
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Ray married his college sweetheart, Christina, in 2007. They reside with their son, Marlon, and daughter, Danica, in Phoenix, Arizona.
