Author(s): Rev. Dr. Harold D. Hunter
Published in: Academic Essay — Pentecostal Social Ethics
Surveys global Pentecostal social engagement through a collection of historical and contemporary vignettes. Hunter documents how Pentecostals have engaged issues of peace, justice, environment, and social witness around the world, challenging reductive narratives about Pentecostalism’s supposed apolitical or otherworldly character.
Roger Oliveira de Mattos is from São Mateus, Espírito Santo, Brazil, and currently lives in Vila Velha. At 38, he studies Theology at Faculdade Refidim, with the purpose of deepening his knowledge of the Scriptures and teaching the Word of God, with emphasis on classical Pentecostal tradition. In addition to his theological vocation, he is a musician and drummer.
Author(s): Kenneth J. Archer & Richard E. WaldropPublished in: Academic Essay — Pentecostal Mission & Liberation Theology Abstract Explores the productive intersections between Pentecostal mission hermeneutics and Latin American Liberation Theology. Archer and Waldrop argue for a hermeneutics from the margins that takes seriously both the Spirit’s empowerment of the poor and the liberating dimension…
Author(s): Kenneth J. ArcherPublished in: Journal of Pentecostal Theology 13.1 (2004) 79–97 Abstract Explores the Pentecostal via salutis — the way of salvation — and its relationship to sacramental ordinances such as water baptism and the Lord’s Supper. Archer argues that these community practices function as narrative enactments of the Pentecostal story of salvation, nourishing…
Theology is a discipline within the humanities that seeks, through the illumination of the Holy Spirit, a deeper understanding of God, the supernatural, and the divine. It has a methodology of its own and constitutes a distinct form of knowledge — one whose standing as a science was called into question from the Renaissance onward,…
The study of last things is a doctrine of utmost importance within Pentecostalism. This is due to the cooling it underwent during the Middle Ages, from the moment the Church allied itself with the State. Furthermore, Pentecostals have a peculiarity in relation to eschatology, due to the events that impacted their immediate context. Moments of…
Author(s): Lee Roy MartinPublished in: Academic Essay — Pentecostal Biblical Studies Abstract Surveys the emergence and development of distinctively Pentecostal approaches to biblical interpretation. Martin traces hermeneutical practices from the early movement to contemporary scholarship, addressing the role of the Holy Spirit, community discernment, and lived experience in the Pentecostal reading of Scripture. Full Article…
High Christology is bound to the divine nature — both to the nature of Christ and to the essential substance of true discipleship: faith. In it the transcendent takes precedence over the natural world, for in a singular way the spiritual dimension disclosed itself in materiality through Christ incarnate. The Gospel according to the apostle…
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