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How do we hear the Spirit’s voice in Scripture? Once we have done responsible exegesis, how may we expect the Spirit to apply the text to our lives and communities? In Spirit Hermeneutics biblical scholar Craig Keener addresses these questions, carefully articulating how the experience of the Spirit that empowered the church on the day of Pentecost can—and should—dynamically shape our reading of...

those who claim a dynamic experience of the Spirit and his gifts, in no way limited to Pentecostal denominations or independent charismatic churches. Moreover, consensus definitions of “Pentecostal,” and thus of Pentecostal hermeneutics, are elusive.8 Even classical Pentecostal interpretive practices are as diverse as the historical roots and settings of these churches and the academic settings of their interpreters; most of their approaches are not in fact distinctive of Pentecostal experience per
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