tence, and thus caps off the body of our collection with a serious refl ection
integrative of pneumatological and biological concerns.
In the Afterword, my co-editor Ken Archer provides an evaluative argu-
ment that assesses contributions and provides an argument concerning the
development of constructive Pentecostal hermeneutics and interdisciplin-
ary work.
NOTES
- See Charles Taylor, “Overcoming Epistemology” in Philosophical
Arguments (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995), 1–19; and
Merold Westphal, Overcoming Onto-Theology: Toward a Postmodern
Christian Faith (New York: Fordham University Press, 2001).
- For leading contemporary overviews of the hermeneutic tradition in rela-
tionship to theology, see Stanley E. Porter and Jason C. Robinson,
Hermeneutics: An Introduction to Interpretive Theory (Grand Rapids, MI:
Eerdmans, 2011); Anthony Thiselton, Hermeneutics: An Introduction
(Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2009); and Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Is There a
Meaning in This Text?: The Bible, the Reader, and the Morality of Literary
Knowledge (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1998). See Martin Heidegger,
Being and Time , trans. John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson (Oxford:
Blackwell, 1962, orig. 1927); Hans-Georg Gadamer, Truth and Method ,
2nd rev. ed., trans. Joel Weinsheimer and Donald G. Marshall (New York:
Continuum, 2002, orig. 1960); Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology , trans.
G.C. Spirak (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975); Thomas
Kuhn, The Structure of Scientifi c Revolutions , 3rd ed. (Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1996); and Michael Polanyi, Personal Knowledge:
Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1962).
- See Raymond E. Brown, “Hermeneutics,” in The Jerome Biblical
Commentary , Vol. 2, ed. Raymond E. Brown, Joseph A. Fitzmeyer, and
Ronald E. Murphy (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: 1968), 605–623; and, again,
Porter and Robinson, Hermeneutics ; Thiselton, Hermeneutics ; and
Vanhoozer, Is There a Meaning in This Text?
- Werner Jeanrod, Theological Hermeneutics: Development and Signifi cance
(New York: Crossroad, 1991); Amos Yong, Spirit-Word- Community:
Theological Hermeneutics in Trinitarian Perspective (Aldershot, UK and
Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2002); and Jens Zimmerman, Recovering
Theological Hermeneutics: An Incarnational- Trinitarian Theory of
Interpretation (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2004).
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