Constructive Pneumatological Hermeneutics in Pentecostal Christianity

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1 Introduction: Pentecostal Hermeneutics

and the Hermeneutical Tradition 1

L. William Oliverio, Jr.

Part I: Constructive Philosophical Hermeneutics 15

2 Spirit and Prejudice: The Dialectic of Interpretation 17

Merold Westphal

3 Conversation, Being, and Trinity: Toward a Trinitarian

Hermeneutical and Linguistic Ontology 33

Christopher C. Emerick

4 Tongues and the Revelation of Being: Reading

Pentecostal Spirituality with Heidegger 51

Jared Vazquez

5 There Is Nothing Outside the Intention: Addressing

“Meaning” in Pentecostal Hermeneutics 67

John C. Poirier

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