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Spirit Hermeneutics: Reading Scripture in Light of Pentecost is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

fear, we fail to see how much we need each other as fellow gifts in Christ’s body, and that both are considering genuine elements of the biblical message. Instead of reacting against each other, or posturing about which gifts are most important, let us embrace biblically affirmed experience in biblical ways. The Bible offers repeated models of spiritual experience; it also offers guidance and a framework within which we can keep our experience on track.37 Pentecostal hermeneutical approaches are
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