- Christopher A. Stephenson, Types of Pentecostal Theology: Method, System,
Spirit (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), 107. - James H. Cone, God of the Oppressed (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1997), 21.
- Ibid., 8. Italics in original.
- The expression “hermeneutics of culture” is relatively uncommon in theo-
logical literature. More common are discussions about “contextualization”
with regard to hermeneutics, or a “hermeneutical circle” with regard to
the theological methodology of liberation theology (e.g., Juan Luis
Segundo, J. Deotis Roberts). - Molefi Kete Asante, “Afrocentricity and the Quest for Method” in
Africana Studies: A Disciplinary Quest for Both Theory and Method , ed.
James L. Conyers, Jr. (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 1997), 74. - Bernard J. F. Lonergan, A Second Collection , ed. William F. J. Ryan and
Bernard J. Terrell (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1974), 232. - Brian K. Blount, Cultural Interpretation: Reorienting New Testament
Criticism (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995), 12. - L. William Oliverio, Theological Hermeneutics in the Classical Pentecostal
Tradition: A Typological Account (Boston: Brill, 2012), 359. - Brent W. Sockness, “Schleiermacher’s “Essentialist” Hermeneutics of
Culture,” in Schleiermacher, the Study of Religion, and the Future of
Theology: A Transatlantic Dialogue , ed. Brent W. Sockness and Wilhelm
Gräb (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2010), 273. - J. Kameron Carter, Race: A Theological Account (New York: Oxford
University Press, 2008), 196. - Charles H. Long, Signifi cations: Signs, Symbols, and Images in the
Interpretation of Religion (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1986), 3. - Carter, Race , 204.
- Long, Signifi cations , 24.
- Ibid., 2.
- Ibid., 4–5.
- Ibid., 142.
- Ibid., 136–137. See F. D. E. Schleiermacher, Hermeneutics: The
Handwritten Manuscripts , ed. Heinz Kimmerle, trans. James Duke and
Jack Forstman (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978), 110, 153 ff. - Long, Signifi cations, 142.
- Carter, Race, 213.
- Ibid. Long’s musings upon the intersection between theological refl ection
and America led him to ask Karl Barth, during a two- hour private conver-
sation, about his impression of America. Barth’s account of this encounter
and his thoughts about his visit to America can be found in the Foreword
to the American Edition of Evangelical Theology: An Introduction (Grand
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