Spirit and Scripture : exploring a pneumatic hermeneutic

✍ Scribed by Spawn, Kevin L.; Wright, Archie T.

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 245
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book considers the academic treatment of biblical interpretation in the renewal movement, the fastest growing tradition in Christendom today. The initial chapter surveys the history of biblical interpretation in the renewal tradition and provides a conceptual basis for the book. In Part II, six renewal scholars outline a proposal for the future of biblical hermeneutics in the tradition. These authors address certain key questions. What is the role of the Holy Spirit in biblical interpretation? What are the distinctive presuppositions, methods and goals of renewal biblical hermeneutic.  Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Part I. Beginning the exploration. The emergence of a pneumatic hermeneutic in the renewal tradition / Kevin L. Spawn, Archie T. Wright --
Part II. The exploration of a pneumatic biblical hermeneutic from various perspectives within the renewal tradition. Word and Spirit, scribe and prophet in Old Testament hermeneutics / Mark J. Boda --
The principle of analogy and biblical interpretation in the renewal tradition / Kevin L. Spawn --
Second Temple period Jewish biblical interpretation : an early pneumatic hermeneutic / Archie T. Wright --
Invoking the Spirit and narrative intent in John's Apocalypse / Ronald Herms --
What the Spirit is saying to the church : the testimony of a Pentecostal in New Testament studies / John Christopher Thomas --
Text, community, Spirit : the challenges posed Pentecostal theological method to evangelical theology / Mark J. Cartledge --
Part III. Responses to the perspectives. Spirit and scripture : a response / Craig G. Bartholomew --
The role of the Spirit in biblical hermeneutics / James D.G. Dunn --
Pneumatic biblical hermeneutics : a response / R. Walter L. Moberly --
Part IV. Contributor responses to Bartholomew, Dunn and Moberly. Walking with the Spirit in the word : a response / Mark J. Boda --
Analogy and the scholar's shared experience with the testimony of scripture / Kevin L. Spawn --
We are not all Pentecostals : a response to Dunn, Moberly and Bartholomew / Archie T. Wright --
Response to Spirit and scripture responders / Ronald Herms --
Discerning dialogue / John Christopher Thomas --
Pneumatic hermeneutics : a reply to respondents / Mark J. Cartledge --
Part V. Summation. Cultivating a pneumatic hermeneutic / Kevin L. Spawn, Archie T. Wright.

✦ Subjects

Bible -- Hermeneutics;Bible;Holy Spirit;BIBLES -- General;RELIGION -- Biblical Reference -- General;RELIGION -- Biblical Reference -- Handbooks;Hermeneutics