practices as more premodern than modern. On the other hand, the sig-
nifi cant advances Pentecostal hermeneutics has made can be traced to the
way so many of its refl ective practitioners have sought to identify both
how they are infl uenced and how they ought to be infl uenced by their
theological commitments and ecclesial experiences in their reading of
Scripture. In this respect, Pentecostal hermeneutics has helpfully identi-
fi ed a way forward for an ecclesially located reading of the Bible as the
church’s Scripture.
NOTES
- I purposefully refer to a theological hermeneutics of Christian Scripture as
a way of narrowing my focus away from concerns with the sort of more
general theological-hermeneutical interests we fi nd in, for example, Amos
Yong, Spirit-Word-Community: Theological Hermeneutics in Trinitarian
Perspective (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2002); L. William Oliverio Jr.,
Theological Hermeneutics in the Classical Pentecostal Tradition: A
Typological Account (Leiden: Brill, 2012). - For discussion of a Wesleyan hermeneutics, cf., e.g., Barry Callen and
Richard P. Thompson, eds., Reading the Bible in Wesleyan Ways: Some
Constructive Proposals (Kansas City, MO: Beacon Hill, 2004); Joel
B. Green, Reading Scripture as Wesleyans (Nashville: Abingdon, 2010);
Joel B. Green and David F. Watson, eds., Wesley, Wesleyans, and Reading
Bible as Scripture (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2012); Steven Joe
Koskie Jr., Reading the Way to Heaven: A Wesleyan Theological Hermeneutic
of Scripture , Journal of Theological Interpretation Supplement Series 8
(Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2014). - John P. Meier, A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus , vol. 1: The
Roots of the Problem and the Person , Anchor Bible Reference Library (New
York: Doubleday, 1991), 1–2. - Cf., e.g., Keon-Sang An, An Ethiopian Reading of the Bible: Biblical
Interpretation of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church , American
Society of Missiology Monograph Series 25 (Eugene, OR: Pickwick,
2015), 47–84. - One biblical scholar quipped that the quest for the historical Jesus was in
danger of transforming into the quest for the historical Galilee (cf. William
R. Herzog II, Jesus, Justice, and the Reign of God: A Ministry of Liberation
[Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2000], 32). - For example, Stephen E. Fowl, Engaging Scripture: A Model for Theological
Interpretation (London: Blackwell, 1998; reprint ed., Eugene, OR: Wipf
and Stock, 2008); Joel B. Green, Seized by Truth: Reading the Bible as
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