AFTERWORD: ON THE FUTURE OF PENTECOSTAL HERMENEUTICS 327- From my perspective, one of the more helpful essays that actually addresses
a “Pneumatic Hermeneutic” in Kevin L. Spawn and Archie T. Wright,
eds., Spirit and Scripture: Exploring a Pneumatic Hermeneutic (London: T
& T Clark, 2012) is Mark J. Cartledge’s short response titled, “Pneumatic
Hermeneutics: A Reply to Respondents,” 186–188. - Contrary to some who have mistaken my call to be Pentecostal and claim
that Pentecostalism is a distinct theological tradition as triumphal, I do not
believe that Pentecostalism is the Christian tradition. I have made the post-
modern turn to the particularity. Thus the argument for a perspectival her-
meneutic. I would venture to say, however, that most confessional scholars
do believe that the tradition in which they are currently embedded is an
authentic particular restoration or expression, and or continuation of
primitive Christianity, and thus an acceptable form of Christianity. Here I
want to say thank you to Spawn and Wright, for they have caused me to
give greater consideration to the notion of restoration and implications for
contemporary Pentecostalism.