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In Theological Hermeneutics in the Classical Pentecostal Tradition: A Typological Account, L. William Oliverio Jr. accounts for the development of Classical Pentecostal theology, as theological hermeneutics, through four types: the original Classical Pentecostal hermeneutic, the Evangelical-Pentecostal hermeneutic, the contextual-Pentecostal hermeneutic, and the ecumenical-Pentecostal hermeneutic. Oliverio gives special attention to key figures in shaping Pentecostal theology and the underlying philosophical assumptions which informed their theological interpretations of reality. The text concludes with a philosophical basis for future Pentecostal theological hermeneutics within the contours of a hermeneutical realism that affirms both the hermeneutical nature of all theology and the implicit affirmation of realism within theological accounts.
Price: $75.00
Pages: 386
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies
Publication Date:
31 October 2014
ISBN: 9789004280175
Format: Paperback
"The book deserves to be widely read, not just by those working in the field of Pentecostal and Charismatic studies but also by those working in the field of historically informed theological hermeneutics more generally. I expect that it will become a standard advanced text in many theological colleges and seminaries."
Mark J. Cartledge, University of Birmingham, UK
"Oliverio provides the first comprehensive account of the history of Pentecostal theological hermeneutics. He shows that Pentecostalism did not simply borrow the theological categories of its Holiness and Reformed predecessors. The early Pentecostal theological hermeneutic—centered on the four/five fold Gospel, the restorationist motif, biblical authority, and pragmatic realism—created a new theological tradition. Highly recommended for its readability and effective charting of the development and diversification of theological methods among historical and contemporary Classical Pentecostals."
Steven M. Studebaker, Associate Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology, Howard and Shirley Bentall Chair in Evangelical Thought, McMaster Divinity College
"If the new dialogue between biblical exegetes and systematic theologians is indeed the most significant theological development in the last two decades, as Miroslav Volf has recently claimed, then the largely unsung contribution of Pentecostal thinkers to this discussion surely ranks as the next most significant development. In providing a typology of Pentecostal approaches to theological hermeneutics, Oliverio’s fine study not only helps non-Pentecostals to understand what has been happening (“Pentecostal Scholasticism” – who knew?) but also proffers fresh resources – in particular an expansive and realistic “contextual-Pentecostal” hermeneutic of “the full gospel” that views word-Spirit-community as inextricably linked – for tired Protestant discussions about the theological interpretation of the Bible."
Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Research Professor of Systematic Theology, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (Deerfield, IL)
Mark J. Cartledge, University of Birmingham, UK
"Oliverio provides the first comprehensive account of the history of Pentecostal theological hermeneutics. He shows that Pentecostalism did not simply borrow the theological categories of its Holiness and Reformed predecessors. The early Pentecostal theological hermeneutic—centered on the four/five fold Gospel, the restorationist motif, biblical authority, and pragmatic realism—created a new theological tradition. Highly recommended for its readability and effective charting of the development and diversification of theological methods among historical and contemporary Classical Pentecostals."
Steven M. Studebaker, Associate Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology, Howard and Shirley Bentall Chair in Evangelical Thought, McMaster Divinity College
"If the new dialogue between biblical exegetes and systematic theologians is indeed the most significant theological development in the last two decades, as Miroslav Volf has recently claimed, then the largely unsung contribution of Pentecostal thinkers to this discussion surely ranks as the next most significant development. In providing a typology of Pentecostal approaches to theological hermeneutics, Oliverio’s fine study not only helps non-Pentecostals to understand what has been happening (“Pentecostal Scholasticism” – who knew?) but also proffers fresh resources – in particular an expansive and realistic “contextual-Pentecostal” hermeneutic of “the full gospel” that views word-Spirit-community as inextricably linked – for tired Protestant discussions about the theological interpretation of the Bible."
Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Research Professor of Systematic Theology, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (Deerfield, IL)
L. William Oliverio Jr., Ph.D. (2009), Marquette University, is Lecturer in Theology at Marquette University and Pastor of Immanuel Church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Among others, he has published in Journal of Pentecostal Theology, Pneuma and Religious Studies Review.