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51 PENTECOSTALISM AND THEOLOGICAL HERMENEUTICS: EVANGELICAL OPTIONS by Robert K. Johnston* It is an overstatement, however descriptive, to speak of the Pentecostal/charismatic movement as having a "theology by osmosis."' Yet it is true that Pentecostalism has historically evidenced little regard for theology proper. As Russell Spittler summarizes the situation: So far as any published'systematic theology' is concerned, a self-conscious effort to frame religious truth for the Pente- costal tradition within its own time and space - something even remotely comparable to Donald Gelpi's work for Roman Catholic charismatics, not to mention Karl Barth's magisterial Church Dogmatics for the Reformed tradition - there simply is no such Pentecostal theology. Even the interest to produce such a work has barely surfaced.2 2 However, as Pentecostals (Catholic, ecumenical, Evangeli- cal, and traditional) increasingly dialogue between themselves and with the wider church; as they become more educated and influential within the wider culture; as they continue to interact with biblical scholarship, both Evangelical and otherwise; and as they reflect on their own experience vis-a-vis other church traditions, the wider culture and their growing biblical under- standing, the need for Pentecostal theology will be increasingly evident. Needful as well will be a theological
Pneuma – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1984
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