Scripture (Nashville: Abingdon, 2007); J. Todd Billings, The Word of God
for the People of God: An Entryway to Theological Interpretation of Scripture
(Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010).- For early efforts, cf., for example, Kenneth J. Archer, “Pentecostal
Hermeneutics: Retrospect and Prospect,” Journal of Pentecostal Theology 8
(1996): 63–81; Arden C. Autry, “Dimensions of Hermeneutics in
Pentecostal Focus,” Journal of Pentecostal Theology 3 (1993): 29–50;
Robert O. Baker, “Pentecostal Bible Reading: Toward a Model of Reading
for the Formation of Christian Affections,” Journal of Pentecostal Theology
7 (1995): 34–48; Richard D. Israel et al., “Pentecostals and Hermeneutics:
Texts, Rituals and Community,” Pneuma 15 (1993): 137–161; Jackie
David Johns and Cheryl Bridges Johns, “Yielding to the Spirit: A
Pentecostal Approach to Group Bible Study,” Journal of Pentecostal
Theology (1992): 109–134; Roger Stronstad, “Trends in Pentecostal
Hermeneutics,” Paraclete 22, no. 3 (1998): 1–12; John Christopher
Thomas, “Women, Pentecostals and the Bible: An Experiment in
Pentecostal Hermeneutics,” Journal of Pentecostal Theology 5 (1994):
41–56; idem, “Women in the Church: An Experiment in Pentecostal
Hermeneutics,” Evangelical Review of Theology 20, no. 3 (1996): 220–237;
idem, “Reading the Bible from within Our Traditions: A Pentecostal
Hermeneutic as Test Case,” in Between Two Horizons: Spanning New
Testament Studies and Systematic Theology , ed. Joel B. Green and Max
Turner (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000), 108–122. - Thomas, “Reading the Bible,” 109.
- Thomas, “Reading the Bible,” 119.
- Kenneth Archer, A Pentecostal Hermeneutic for the Twenty First Century:
Spirit, Scripture and Community , Journal of Pentecostal Theology
Supplement 28 (London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2004; reprint ed.,
Cleveland, TN: Centre for Pentecostal Theology Press, 2009). - Kenneth J. Archer, “The Spirit and Theological Interpretation: A
Pentecostal Strategy,” in The Gospel Revisited: Towards a Pentecostal
Theology of Worship (Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2011), 118–137 (132). - Gustavo Gutiérrez, We Drink from Our Own Wells: The Spiritual Journey of
a People (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1984). - I borrow this defi nition of “doctrine” from Alister E. McGrath, The Genesis
of Doctrine: A Study in the Foundation of Doctrinal Criticism (Grand
Rapids: Eerdmans, 1990), 11–12. - The historical and hermeneutical relationship between Scripture and the
church’s faith is helpfully explored in Robert W. Jenson, Canon and Creed ,
Interpretation: Resources for the Use of Scripture in the Church (Louisville:
Westminster John Knox, 2010); cf. Joel B. Green, Practicing Theological
Interpretation: Engaging Biblical Texts for Faith and Formation ,
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