- As Ken Archer (“Pentecostal Hermeneutics and the Society for Pentecostal
Studies:
Reading and Hearing in One Spirit and One Accord,” Pneuma 37.3 [2015],
317–39) has said, “More important than properly using methods is the
spiritual formation of Jesus-shaped and Spirit- fi lled Pentecostal virtuous
communities.” - Gregory the Great, Moralia I.IV, n.p. Available online: http://www.lec-
tionarycentral.com/Gregory Moralia/Epistle.html; accessed: December
19, 2015. - This is not far removed from what Umberto Eco ( On Literature [Orlando:
Harquart Books, 2002], 222–223) describes as the difference between
“semantic” and “aesthetic” readers. - Strobel, “Theology in the Gaze of the Father,” 160.
- See Frances Young, “The ‘Mind’ of Scripture: Theological Readings of the
Bible with the Fathers,” International Journal of Systematic Theology 7.2
(2005), 126–141. - Not that the Spirit ever speaks against the scriptures. That would be the
same as the Spirit confl icting with the Son, God divided against God.
However, the Spirit does work against our readings of the scriptures, and
against the assumptions, ambitions, and fears that energize those
interpretations. - In a forthcoming Pneuma article, “Provoked to Saving Jealousy,” I attempt
to work out what I think Paul is doing not only in this passage, but also in
the entire wider section (Romans 9–11).
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