The Hermeneutical Spirit: Theological Interpretation and Scriptural Imagination for the 21st Century
Overview
In the contemporary biblical studies climate, proposals regarding the theological interpretation of Scripture are contested, particularly but not only because they privilege, encourage, and foster ecclesial or other forms of normative commitments as part and parcel of the hermeneutical horizon through which scriptural texts are read and understood. Within this context, confessional approaches have been emerging, including some from within the nascent pentecostal theological tradition. This volume builds on the author’s previous work in theological method to suggest a pentecostal perspective on theological interpretation that is rooted in the conviction that all Christian reading of sacred Scripture is post-Pentecost, meaning after the Day of Pentecost outpouring of the Spirit on all flesh in anticipation of the coming reign of God. In that respect, such a pentecostal interpretative perspective is not parochially for those within the modern day movement bearing that name but is arguably apostolic in following after the scriptural imagination of the earliest disciples of Jesus the messiah and therefore has ecumenical and missional purchase across space and time. The Hermeneutical Spirit thus provides close readings of various texts across the scriptural canon as a model for Christian theological interpretation of Scripture suitable for the twenty-first-century global context.
Top Highlights
“Yet what does it mean to conduct a ‘reading in the Spirit,’21 or what else does pneumatology contribute to TIS beyond illuminating or applying the scriptural word?” (Page 6)
“Historical methods of investigation that had long focused on the world behind the text or sought to explicate or exegete the meaning of the text in its ancient context either minimized discussion of how such texts were relevant beyond the original audiences or suggested that it was beyond the purview of critical scholarship to ask such questions. Yet there was an increasing sense that such modern proclivities not just were out of sync with earlier (patristic, medieval, and Reformation-era) approaches that read Scripture morally, spiritually, and salvifically, but also thereby were incapable of recognizing the fundamentally ecclesial and theological character of these ancient writings.” (Page 2)
“theological anthropology from a Lukan frame of reference.57” (Page 17)
“christological, pneumatological, and eschatological” (Page 65)
“starting with the Spirit leads to a more authentically Trinitarian (rather than actually binitarian) theological vision.” (Page 12)
- Title: The Hermeneutical Spirit: Theological Interpretation and Scriptural Imagination for the 21st Century
- Author: Amos Yong
- Publisher: Cascade
- Print Publication Date: 2017
- Logos Release Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Bible › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Bible › Theology; Hermeneutics › Religious aspects--Pentecostalism
- ISBNs: 9781532604898, 9781532604911, 9781532604904, 1532604890, 1532604912, 1532604904
- Resource ID: LLS:HRMNTCLSPRT
- Resource Type: Monograph
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