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The Hermeneutical Spirit: Theological Interpretation and Scriptural Imagination for the 21st Century is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

one might argue that the book of Acts provides the interpretive frame or point of entry into the biblical narrative as a whole.6 While such a pentecostal thesis can be variously understood, for our purposes, I suggest that it is no less than, or at least, christological, pneumatological, and eschatological. First, the pentecostal hermeneutic and theological method is resolutely christological not only in that the Spirit poured out on the Day of Pentecost comes from the risen Christ at the right hand
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