memory, positing fours ways of interpreting early Pentecostal interracial
exchanges in order to spotlight the hermeneutical issues. The key herme-
neutical text is The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre by
Tzvetan Todorov, Todorov’s hermeneutic of the uncanny, fantastic, and
marvelous. A fourth hermeneutic is offered in Bonnie Honig’s Emergency
Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy , where she offers a hermeneutic of the
miraculous. Todorov and Honig will be read with broad strokes in order
to make distinctions between their respective hermeneutical maneuvers.
These four hermeneutics will be employed to interpret early interracial
Pentecostalism with the uncanny proposing lunacy, the fantastic liminality,
the marvelous subversion, and the miraculous transcendence. The inter-
pretation suggested by each of these four hermeneutics will also propose
particular theological images and historical tropes. 1
Todorov and Honig aid us in refocusing our theologizing on and his-
toricizing of early Pentecostalism in regards to two persistent questions
which nag at Pentecostal scholarship. How did Pentecostalism go from
Fig. 13.1 D.J. Young, C.H. Mason, R.R. Booker, E.M. Page, W.B. Holt,
William Roberts, J.E. Bowe, S.T. Samuel, R.H.I. Clark, E.R. Driver, Charles
Pleas, J.H. Boon, R.E. Hart. “Let the Elders that rule well be counted worthy of
double honour, especially they who labour in the Word and Doctrine.” 1 Timothy
5:17
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