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.

Incorporates philosophical as well as theological insights Offers a highly interdisciplinary approach Represents a hermeneutical agenda for charismatic-Pentecostal or renewal hermeneutics that has widened the scope of hermeneutical inquiry

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Kenneth J. Archer is Professor of Theology and Pentecostal Studies at Southeastern University, USA, and a visiting faculty member at the Advance Center for Theological Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary, USA. He has authored a variety of articles in international Journals and dictionaries. He is the author of two books, A Pentecostal Hermeneutic for the Twenty-First Century and The Gospel Revisited. He is also co-editor, with Dale Coulter, of a forthcoming volume, North American Pentecostalism . He is a minister with the Church of God, Cleveland, USA, and has co-pastored three churches with his spouse, Melissa L. Archer.
L. William Oliverio, Jr. is Pastor of Immanuel Church, Wisconsin, USA. He is also Lecturer in Theology at Marquette University, USA, and an adjunct faculty member of the Pentecostal Theological Seminary, The School of Urban Missions, and Regent University School of Divinity, USA. He is the author of Theological Hermeneutics in the Classical Pentecostal Tradition and various philosophical writings.

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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.- 15. Locating the Spirit in Meaningful Experience: Empirical Theology and PentecostalHermeneutics; Mark J. Cartledge.- 16. Philosophy and Developmental Psychology: Relevance for Pentecostal Hermeneutics; William K. Kay.- 17. Surprising Bedfellows: Theology and Science Interpretation and Integration; Michael Tenneson, David Bundrick, and Donald Johns.- 18. Let There Be Life!: Towards a Hermeneutic of Biological and Theological Integration; Bev Mitchell.
   Afterword: On the Future of Pentecostal Hermeneutics; Kenneth J. Archer