Constructive Pneumatological Hermeneutics in Pentecostal Christianity

This book presents the work of leading hermeneutical theorists alongside emerging thinkers, examining the current state of hermeneutics within the Pentecostal tradition. The volume’s contributors present constructive ideas about the future of hermeneutics at the intersection of theology of the Spirit, Pentecostal Christianity, and other disciplines. This collection offers cutting-edge scholarship that engages with and pulls from a broad range of fields and points toward the future of Pneumatological hermeneutics. The volume’s interdisciplinary essays are broken up into four sections: philosophical hermeneutics, biblical-theological hermeneutics, social and cultural hermeneutics, and hermeneutics in the social and physical sciences. 

1. Introduction: Pentecostal Hermeneutics and the Hermeneutical Tradition; L. William Oliverio, Jr.

Part 1. Constructive Philosophical Hermeneutics

2.  Spirit and Prejudice: The Dialectic of Interpretation; Merold Westphal

3.  Conversation, Being, and Trinity: Toward a Trinitarian Hermeneutical Linguistic Ontology; Christopher C. Emerick

4. Tongues and the Revelation of Being: Reading Pentecostal Spirituality with Heidegger; Jared Vazquez

5.  There is Nothing Outside the Intention: “Meaning” in Pentecostal Hermeneutics; John C. Poirier

6.  Ecoing Hirsch: Do Pentecostal Readers Find or Construct Meaning?; Glen W. Menzies

Part II. Constructive Biblical-Theological Hermeneutics

7. Beautifying the Beautiful Word: Scripture, the Triune God, and the Aesthetics of Interpretation; Chris E.W. Green

8.  Radical Orthodoxy, Pentecostalism, and Embodiment in Exodus 20: Re-envisioning a Pentecostal Hermeneutic for a Formative Liturgy; Yoon Shin

9.  When the Spirit Trumps Tradition: A Pentecostal Reading of Isaiah 56:1-8; Jacqueline Grey

10. Pentecostal Hermeneutics: A Wesleyan Perspective; Joel B. Green

Part III. Constructive Social and Cultural Hermeneutics

11. The Science, Sighs, and Signs of Interpretation: An Asian-American Post-Pentecost-al Hermeneutics in a Multi-, Inter-, and Trans-cultural World; Amos Yong

12. Diakrisis Always En Conjunto: First Theology Understood from a Latino/a Context; Daniel Castelo

13. Vintage Photo, Visual Exegesis, and 1917 Interracial Pentecostalism: Hermeneutical Devices and Hermeneutical Maneuvers; David D. Daniels III

14. Pentecostal Hermeneutics and Race in the Early Twentieth Century: Towards a Pentecostal Hermeneutics of Culture; Duane T. Loynes, Sr.

Part IV. Constructive Hermeneutics in the Social and Physical Sciences