Constructive Pneumatological Hermeneutics in Pentecostal Christianity

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future, present and past, here and there and somewhere; with and between
ideals, mindsets, and positions. For us, the prefi x meta indicates that a
person can believe in one thing one day and believe in its opposite the next.
Or maybe even at the same time. Indeed, if anything, meta intimates a
constant repositioning: not a compromise, not a balance, but an at times
vehemently moving back and forth, left and right. It repositions itself with
and between neoliberalism and Keynesianism, the “right” and the “left”,
idealism and “pragmatism”, the discursive and the material, web 2.0 and
arts and crafts, without ever seeming reducible to any one of them.”
http://www.metamodernism.com/2012/02/23/tank-interviews-
timotheus-vermeulen-about-metamodernism/ , accessed May 18, 2016.
Luke Turner, Metamodernism: A Brief Introduction , writes, “Whereas
postmodernism was characterised (sic) by deconstruction, irony, pastiche,
relativism, nihilism, and the rejection of grand narratives (to caricature it
somewhat), the discourse surrounding metamodernism engages with the
resurgence of sincerity, hope, romanticism, affect, and the potential for
grand narratives and universal truths, whilst not forfeiting all that we’ve
learnt from postmodernism,” http://www.metamodernism.
com/2015/01/12/metamodernism-a-brief-introduction/ , accessed May
18, 2016.


  1. See James K.  A. Smith and Amos Yong, eds., Science and the Spirit: A
    Pentecostal Engagement with Science (Bloomington and Indianapolis,
    Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2010) and Amos Yong, The Spirit of
    Creation: Modern Science and Divine Action in Pentecostal- Charismatic
    Imagination (Grand Rapids, MI and Cambridge, UK: William B. Eerdmans
    Publishing Company, 2011).

  2. See Daniel Castelo’s essay in this volume. Although historically speaking,
    Pentecostalism comes after Western European colonialization, postcolo-
    nial interpretive methods would be helpful. For a recent example see
    Rodolfo Galvan Estrada iii, “Is a Contextualized Hermeneutic the Future
    of Pentecostal Readings? The Implications of a Pentecostal Hermeneutic
    for a Chicano/Latino Community,” in Pneuma 37, 3 (2014): 341–355.

  3. Kevin L. Spawn and Archie T. Wright, eds., Spirit and Scripture: Exploring
    a Pneumatic Hermeneutic (London: T & T Clark, 2012). According to
    Wright, “the goal of this volume was to offer several essays that would
    present various ideas of the role of the Holy Spirit (God’s Spirit) in herme-
    neutics: a pneumatic hermeneutic ” (175). For a helpful review see Andrew
    Davies, “Book Reviews,” Kevin L.  Spawn and Archie T.  Wright, eds.,
    review of Spirit & Scripture: Examining a Pneumatic Hermeneutic
    (London: T&T Clark, 2012) in Pneuma 35 (2013): 268–269.

  4. Kevin L. Spawn and Archie T. Wright, eds., Spirit and Scripture , 18.

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