Theological Hermeneutics in the Classical Pentecostal Tradition—A Typological Account

In "Theological Hermeneutics in the Classical Pentecostal Tradition: A Typological Account," L. William Oliverio Jr. accounts for the development of Classical Pentecostal theology, as theological hermeneutics, through four types: the original Classical Pentecostal hermeneutic, the Evangelical-Pentecostal hermeneutic, the contextual-Pentecostal hermeneutic, and the ecumenical-Pentecostal hermeneutic. Oliverio gives special attention to key figures in shaping Pentecostal theology and the underlying philosophical assumptions which informed their theological interpretations of reality. The text concludes with a philosophical basis for future Pentecostal theological hermeneutics within the contours of a hermeneutical realism that affirms both the hermeneutical nature of all theology and the implicit affirmation of realism within theological accounts.

L. William Oliverio Jr., Ph.D. (2009), Marquette University, is Lecturer in Theology at Marquette University and Pastor of Immanuel Church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He has published in Journal of Pentecostal Theology, Pneuma and Religious Studies Review, and is Philosophy Interest Group Leader for the Society for Pentecostal Studies.