Interpretation of Tongues and Prophecy in 1 Corinthians 12-14, with a Pentecostal Hermeneutics.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I: Trends in Pentecostal Hermeneutics -- Chapter 1 The Hermeneutical Key in Classical Pentecostalism: Issues and Distinctiveness -- 1. Dynamic and Inspiring Pentecostal Spirituality as a Source for Pentecostal Hermeneutics -- a. The Dynamic Experience of Pentecostalism -- b. The Dynamic Spiritual Matrix of Pentecostalism -- 2. Characteristics and Significance of the Formation of the Pentecostal Message in Early Pentecostal Leaders -- a. Charles F. Parham and William Seymour: Bringing Forth the Effective Impetus of the Pentecostal Movement -- b. Aimee Semple McPherson: Four-Fold Pattern of Pentecostalism -- 3. The Essence of Pentecostalism in Pentecostal Reading of the Bible: "The Spiritual Ethos" -- a. Personal Experience of "Spirit-Baptism" as a Dynamic Spiritual Experience -- b. Eschatological-Restorational Vision of Pentecostal Life -- c. Power for Service: Reconciliation and the Unity of God's Household -- Chapter 2 Debates in Contemporary Pentecostal Hermeneutics -- 1. Sophisticated Hermeneutical Discussions in Pentecostalism -- a. Demanding Issues for a Pentecostal Hermeneutic -- b. Historical Precedent vs. Normativity -- c. The Hermeneutical Issue of the Pentecostal Identity -- 2. The Effects of Philosophical and Methodological Paradigms on Pentecostal Hermeneutics: Modernism and Postmodernism -- a. Analytical Pentecostal Hermeneutics with Modernistic Critical Exegetical Methodology and Its Limitations -- b. The Benefits and Dangers of the Postmodern Approach to Pentecostal Hermeneutics -- 3. Meaning, Text and Reader in Pentecostal Hermeneutics -- a. Pluralistic Meaning of the Text Contrasted with One-Dimensional Interpretation: "Pentecostal Plurality".

b. Understanding the Nature of the Biblical Texts: Givenness of the Text, Sensus Plenior, and Two Levels of the Text (Letter and Spirit) -- c. The Role of the Reader -- PART II: Pentecostal Experience as a Hermeneutical Agenda Excursus: "Experience" as a Hermeneutical Resource -- Chapter 3: Pentecostal Experience as Spiritual Experience -- 1. Theological Considerations of "Spiritual Experience" -- 2. Definition of "Spiritual Experience" -- a. An Experiential Reality of the Holy Spirit -- b. The Criterion for Spiritual Experience -- 3. Encountering Otherness in the Text -- a. Spiritual Experience and the Word of God -- b. The Experience of the "Otherness" of the Text -- Chapter 4 Pentecostal Experience as Revelatory Experience -- 1. Introduction: "Is There a Meaning in This Text?" -- 2. A Dynamic Understanding of the Word of God through the Revelatory Experience -- a. The Dynamic Nature of the Word of God in Divine and Human Witness -- b. Revelatory Experience in the Light of Scriptural Revelation -- c. The Revelatory Experience and the Role of the Holy Spirit -- d. Divine Communicative Act in the Language of Biblical Texts -- 3. The Believing Community Past and Present as the Locus of the Revelatory Experience -- a. A Long-Term Controversy over Scripture and Tradition -- b. The Pentecostal Understanding of the Community for an Interpretation of the Bible -- 4. A View of Text and Textuality Defined by Revelatory Experience -- Chapter 5 Pentecostal Experience as Prophetic Experience -- 1. Introduction -- a. A Pentecostal Approach to Lukan Narrative -- b. Significant Terms in Relation to Luke's Purpose -- 2. Empowerment as Prophetic Experience -- a. The Judaic Concept of the Spirit of Prophecy -- b. Controversy over Empowerment or Soteriological Necessity -- 3. Inspired Speech as Prophetic Experience.

a. Being "Filled with the Spirit" and Inspired Speech -- b. The Spirit as the Power of Inspired Speech and "Authoritative Preaching" -- 4. Prophetic Revelation in Prophetic Experience -- PART III: A Pentecostal Interpretation of 1 Corinthians 12-14: Tongues and Prophecy -- Chapter 6 Pentecostal Theological Reflection on Tongues -- 1. Introduction: Pentecostal Understanding of Tongues -- 2. The Polemical Nature of the Practice of Glossolalia in Corinth -- a. The "Palestinian Piety" Origin -- b. The Pre-Christian Judaic Origin: Tongues of Angels -- c. The Origin in Hellenistic Religion -- d. Origin in a "Status-Conferring" Function -- 3. The Nature of Speaking in Tongues -- a. The Corinthians' Misunderstanding of the Gift of Tongues -- b. Paul's View of the Gift of Tongues -- 4. Conclusion -- Chapter 7 Prophecy in the Pauline Communities -- 1. Polemical Notions Concerning Paul's Distinction between Tongues and Prophecy -- a. The Corinthian Ecstatic Practice of Prophecy -- b. The Corinthian Practice of Ecstatic Tongues as a "Sign Character" -- c. The Unintelligibility of Tongues and the Intelligibility of Prophecy -- 2. The Nature and Function of Prophecy -- a. "Oracular" Utterance or "Pastoral Preaching"? -- b. Prophecy and Revelation -- c. Spontaneous or Sustained Utterance? -- 3. The Goal of Prophecy and its Audience -- 4. Agents of Prophecy: Who Were the Prophets? -- Excursus: Some Concluding Personal Reflections -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Biblical and Other Ancient References.

Bringing "spiritual experience" into the domain of biblical hermeneutics, this book will certainly stimulate current debates within this field, among both Pentecostals and Christians of other traditions. The author also applies a Pentecostal hermeneutical methodology to Paul's teaching on tongues and prophecy in 1 Corinthians 12-14, opening possibilities to a Pentecostal pneumatology that tends instead to focus on the Lukan narrative. Paul's texts are reconsidered not as doctrinal or situational documents but as dynamic communication within a living community.

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