This book explores a seeming incongruence between the professed aims of the Pentecostal academy and Pentecostal ecclesial praxis within the Australian context. Via the discipline of hermeneutics, it establishes and explores the philosophical, historical, cultural and theological issues that influence contemporary Pentecostal biblical interpretation across a variety of domains. Rather than seeking a rigid “framework” within which Pentecostal interpretation can be controlled, the singular finding of this book is that an observation, identification, and examination of a tension is not a signal to collapse or dissolve it. Instead, it is an invitation to explore and assess its nature and function.