Hermeneutical Methods: The Bible and Its Multiple Interpretive Perspectives
Historical-critical, grammatical, narrative: each method makes the Bible answer a different question. A map of which to use, and when.
Understanding the Doctrine of the Holy Spirit in Brazilian Pentecostalism
The Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity, not the third in importance. How Brazilian Pentecostalism understood that distinction, and where it stumbled.
Relationships between Retribution Theology and Prosperity Theology in Brazilian Pentecostal Religion
Prosperity theology did not fall from the sky: it came out of retribution theology. Tracing that origin is the most effective way to disarm it.
Christian Spirituality and its Contribution to Health Promotion
Health is more than the absence of disease, and Christian spirituality has something to say about it without turning into therapy or a promise of healing.
The Challenges of Ecclesiastical Government Today
The Church is a living organism and a visible institution at once. It is at that seam that contemporary church government gets stuck.
The Implications of the Holistic Conception of the Human Being in Spiritual Practices
Dualism, trichotomy or unity: the answer chosen reshapes the whole of spiritual practice, including what is meant by deliverance and healing.
Fundamental Elements for the Construction of Historical-Cultural Context
No message can be interpreted outside the time in which it was spoken. The elements that build historical-cultural context, and how to assemble them without inventing.
The Importance (or Lack Thereof) of Interdisciplinarity in Theological Endeavor
Theology converses with philosophy, history and the human sciences, or it isolates itself and grows ill. On the real price of each choice.
Contributions of Pentecostal Theology to Biblical Hermeneutics
Pentecostal hermeneutics is not devotional reading under another name. What it adds in method to biblical interpretation, and what it still lacks.
The Place of Hope in Pentecostal Eschatological Reflection
Eschatology cooled in the Middle Ages and Pentecostalism warmed it again. This piece asks what room is left for hope when the end becomes a timetable.
