A Pentecostal Hermeneutic for the Twenty First Century: Spirit, Scripture and Community

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A&C Black, Dec 30, 2004 - Religion - 219 pages
The purpose of this book is to present a critically informed contemporary Pentecostal hermeneutic rooted in Pentecostal identity, in its stories, beliefs and practices.

As Pentecostals began entering academic communities of higher learning, their interpretive methods became both mainstream and modernistic as they adapted the historical critical methods, or the so-called scientific hermeneutic. The proposed hermeneutic contained in this book desires to move beyond the impasse created by Modernity, instead pushing Pentecostals into the contemporary context by critically re-appropriating early Pentecostal ethos and interpretive practices for a contemporary Pentecostal community. The Pentecostal hermeneutic is a three-way interaction for theological meaning between the Holy Spirit, the Pentecostal community and sacred Scripture.

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Contents

Chapter 2
35
Chapter 3
65
THE HERMENEUTICAL FILTER
94
Chapter 5
127
Chapter 6
175
CONCLUSION AND CONTRIBUTION
192
Sources Cited and Consulted
199
Index of References
215
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Kenneth Archer is Assistant Professor of Theology at the Church of God Theological Seminary Cleveland and Ordained Minister with the Assembly of God

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