Pentecostal Hermeneutics: Approach and Methodology
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[1] Some scholars have however tried to group Pentecostals according to their main theological subscriptions. For example there are classical Pentecostals who are established within the Wesleyan and Keswick traditions, the oneness Pentecostal characterized by their Unitarian theology, and the Neo-Pentecostals who are charismatic and trans-denominational. See F.L Arrington, “Hermeneutics: Historical Perspectives on Pentecostals and Charismatic,” in Stanley M. Burgess, ed., Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic movements (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1988), 377.
[2] Kenneth J. Archer, A Pentecostal Hermeneutics for the Twenty-first Century: Spirit, Scripture and Community (New York: T&T Clark International, 2004), 11.
[3] Kenneth J. Archer, A Pentecostal Hermeneutics for the Twenty-first Century: Spirit, Scripture and Community, 12.
[4] Ogbu Kalu, African Pentecostalism: An Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), vii-ix.
[5] Kalu, African Pentecostalism: An Introduction, vii.
[6] See Kalu, African Pentecostalism: An Introduction. And Archer, A Pentecostal Hermeneutics for the Twenty-first Century: Spirit, Scripture and Community, 16.
[7] See Bernard Ramm, Protestant Biblical Interpretation (Boston: W.A. Wilde Company, 1950), and Berkeley Mickelsen, Interpreting the Bible (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1989).
[8] Milton S. Terry, Biblical Hermeneutics (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1981), 20.
[9] Enest Munachi Ezeogu,“The Crucial Role of Biblical Scholarship in the Development of African Christian Theology,” http:/www.theologyinafrica.com/confrence/ppfconf/ppfconf.php (accessed on October 13, 2010).
[10] Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Is There a Meaning in this Text? (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1998), 149.
[11] F.L. Arrington, “Hermeneutics: Historical Perspectives on Pentecostals and Charismatic,” in Stanley M. Burgess, ed., Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic movements (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1988), 376.
[12] Andrew Davis, “What Does it Mean to Read the Bible as A Pentecostal?” in Journal of Pentecostal Theology. Vol. 18 No.2 2009. Brill. PAGE 223 (216-229).
[13] F.L. Arrington, “Hermeneutics: Historical Perspectives on Pentecostals and Charismatic,” in Stanley M. Burgess, ed., Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic movements (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1988), 380.
[14] Archer, A Pentecostal Hermeneutics for the Twenty-first Century: Spirit, Scripture and Community, 16.
[15] The common sense realism employed empirical- scientific method to interpret scripture. See Archer, A Pentecostal Hermeneutics for the Twenty-first Century: Spirit, Scripture and Community, 35-38.
[16] This relates specifically to the north American Christianity were hermeneutical studies were advanced at that time.
[17] See Kenneth J Archer, A Pentecostal Hermeneutics for the Twenty-first Century: Spirit, Scripture and Community, 48-62.
Category: Biblical Studies, Pneuma Review, Winter 2014
About the Author: Michael Muoki Wambua, M.Th. cand. (Daystar University, Nairobi, Kenya), and B.A (East Africa School of Theology) is the Vice Chairman of Africa Capacity Building Initiative, a Lecturer at African Center for Great Commission in Nairobi and a Church minister with Nairobi Pentecostal Church.
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