Born in Taiping, West Malaysia, to Chinese parents, Amos Yong is an associate professor of theology at Bethel College in St. Paul, Minnesota and a minister in the General Council of the Assemblies of God. He has written extensively on pneumatology and theology of religions. A graduate of Bethany College in Santa Cruz, California, he earned a master's degree in Christian history and thought at Western Evangelical Seminary in Portland, Oregon, and a second master's degree in history at Portland State University before receiving his Ph.D. in religious studies and theology from Boston University in 1999. Dr. Yong has served as a youth pastor of an Assembly of God congregation in Fairfield, California, and as associate pastor of one in Mansfield, Massachusetts. He began his teaching career as an assistant professor of theology at Bethany and then joined the Bethel faculty. He was named to his present position in 2002 and also serves as an adjunct professor of theology at North Central University in Minneapolis. He is currently on leave as Edward B. Brueggemann Visiting Distinguished Professor at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. A former member of the executive board of the North American Academy of Ecumenists, he presently serves on the steering committee of the Evangelical Theology Group of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) and as program chair of the AAR's Upper-Midwest Region. He is a contributing editor of Pneuma Review: The Journal of Ministry Resources and Theology for Pentecostal and Charismatic Ministries and Leaders, book review editor of Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, and book notes editor of the Evangelical Theology Section of the Religious Studies Review. The author of some thirty-five articles published in scholarly journals and chapters in volumes of collected works, he is the co-editor of one book and the author of three others, including, most recently, Spirit-World-Community: Theological Hermeneutics in Trinitarian Perspective (2002) and Beyond the Impasse: Toward a Pentecostal Theology of Religions, which was published by Baker Academic last year. A forthcoming book, The Spirit Poured Out on All Flesh: Pentecostalism and the Possibility of Global Theology, will be released by Baker in 2005, and Dr. Yong recently completed the manuscript, "Does the Wind Blow through the Middle Way?," a study of the Christian-Buddhist dialogue.