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An African pentecostal hermeneutics : a distinctive contribution to hermeneutics / Marius Nel ; foreword by Daryl Balia.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Eugene, Oregon : Wipf & Stock, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (xii, 315 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781532660887
  • 153266088X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: African pentecostal hermeneutics.DDC classification:
  • 276 23
LOC classification:
  • BR1644.5.A35 N45 2018eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
By way of introduction : motivation for study -- Bible reading practices of Pentecostals -- Defining a Pentecostal hermeneutics for Africa -- The centrality of the Holy Spirit in reading the Bible -- The eschatological lens that Pentecostals use when they read the Bible --The faith community as normative for the interpretation of the Bible.
Summary: The face of African Christianity is becoming Pentecostal. African Pentecostalism is a diverse movement, but its collective interest in baptism in the Spirit and the result of Pentecost in daily living binds it together. Pentecostals read the Bible with the expectation that the Spirit who inspired the authors will again inspire them to hear it as God's word. They emphasize the experiential, at times at the cost of proper doctrine and practice. This book sketches an African hermeneutic that provides guidance to a diverse movement with many faces, and serves as corrective for doctrine and practice in the face of some excesses and abuses (especially in some parts of the neo-Pentecostal movement). African Pentecostalism's contribution to the hermeneutical debate is described before three points are discussed that define it: the centrality of the Holy Spirit in reading the Bible, the eschatological lens that Pentecostals use when they read the Bible, and the faith community as normative for the interpretation of the Bible.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-272) and index.

By way of introduction : motivation for study -- Bible reading practices of Pentecostals -- Defining a Pentecostal hermeneutics for Africa -- The centrality of the Holy Spirit in reading the Bible -- The eschatological lens that Pentecostals use when they read the Bible --The faith community as normative for the interpretation of the Bible.

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The face of African Christianity is becoming Pentecostal. African Pentecostalism is a diverse movement, but its collective interest in baptism in the Spirit and the result of Pentecost in daily living binds it together. Pentecostals read the Bible with the expectation that the Spirit who inspired the authors will again inspire them to hear it as God's word. They emphasize the experiential, at times at the cost of proper doctrine and practice. This book sketches an African hermeneutic that provides guidance to a diverse movement with many faces, and serves as corrective for doctrine and practice in the face of some excesses and abuses (especially in some parts of the neo-Pentecostal movement). African Pentecostalism's contribution to the hermeneutical debate is described before three points are discussed that define it: the centrality of the Holy Spirit in reading the Bible, the eschatological lens that Pentecostals use when they read the Bible, and the faith community as normative for the interpretation of the Bible.