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K.J. Archer, L.W. Oliverio, Jr. (eds.), Constructive
Pneumatological Hermeneutics in Pentecostal Christianity,
DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-58561-5_11
CHAPTER 11The Science, Sighs, and Signs
of Interpretation: An Asian American Post-
Pentecost- al Hermeneutics in a Multi-,
Inter-, and Trans-cultural World
Amos Yong
I have been writing about hermeneutics in global and cross-cultural per-
spective as a Pentecostal theologian for a while. 1 Along the way, my herme-
neutical considerations have been enriched—or complicated, depending
on one’s perspective—by work on theology’s dialogue with the natural
sciences, by inhabiting more fully my location as a 1.5 generation (born
in Malaysia but raised and educated in the USA since my middle school
years) Asian American naturalized immigrant, and by research about the
role of affectivity in the theological task. 2 The following thus represents
my current thinking about Pentecostal hermeneutics in global context.
In brief, my argument is that the way forward for Pentecostal herme-
neutics in a pluralistic world, understood variously as the following will
unpack, is to develop not so much a confessional approach founded on any
genealogical connection with the Azusa Street Revival at the turn of the
twentieth century, 3 but to adopt the Day of Pentecost apostolic experience
A. Yong ()
Fuller Theological Seminary , Pasadena , CA , USA