| Summary: | Pentecostalism has rapidly grown across the globe; and, because of its recent ascent into prominence, its theology, practices, and methods should be appraised critically. This article sets forth one perspective on Pentecostal biblical hermeneutics. The author proposes that the twentieth-century Pentecostal revival created a unique interpretive matrix from which emerged fresh interpretive strategies. Pentecostals inherited the methods of the nineteenth-century holiness movement, but they added to those methods a new approach that took into account the experience of Holy Spirit baptism, which resulted in a unique combination of hermeneutical
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