Index of Subjects
Abduction, 156–57
Abolitionism, 327n20 , 387n21 . See also Slavery
Abrams, Minnie, 62 , 323nn22–23
Accommodation, divine, 204 , 371n20 . See also Contextualization
Adelekan, Adetekunbo, 301
Adogame, Afe, 298
Aesthetic function of language, 86 , 134 , 145 , 315n58 , 349n7
Affective approaches, 146 , 315n58 , 315n60
African-American churches, 18 , 46 , 85 , 275 , 297 , 309n78 , 362n18
African Christianity, 16 , 79 , 81 , 83 , 89–92 , 95 , 96 , 195 , 279 , 283 , 334n15 , 336n47 , 363n3 , 378n16 . See also Central Africa; East Africa; and particular African nations
African theology, 295 , 335n18 , 338n78 , 338n83
Agency, 327n12
Agosto, Efrain, 298
Alexander, Estralda, 300
Alexander, Paul, 301
Alexandria, library at, 353n14
Allegorical reading, 49 , 74 , 92 , 123 , 167 , 205 , 243 , 348n75 , 367nn2–3 , 373n20
Allison, Dale, 139
Alphacrucis University, 387n3
Altered states of consciousness, 91
Ambrose, Linda, 300
Ambrosiaster, 371n11
Amish, 321n86
Anabaptists, 6 , 121 , 300 , 311n16 , 360n56 , 378n5 . See also Mennonites
Analogies for application, 117 , 118 , 134 , 149 , 151 , 203 , 205 , 212 , 213 , 249 , 287 , 288–89 , 333n48 , 342n30 , 351n50 , 355n62 , 356n68 , 356n70 , 358n28 ; biblical examples, 220 , 238 , 241 , 243 , 244 , 246 , 248 , 251 , 258 , 367n3 , 367n7 , 373n20 , 374nn31–32 , 374nn34–35 , 376n56 , 376n65
Analogy of faith, 80
Ancestors: curses from, 271 ; possession by, 335n32 ; veneration of, 80
Ancient Near Eastern contexts, 74 , 84 , 102 , 127 , 129 , 150–51 , 218 , 225–30 , 233 , 234 , 243 , 315n57 , 332n36 , 342n26 , 346n45
Anderson, Allan H., 300 , 388n6
Anglicans, 30 , 57 , 67 , 279 , 297 , 303 , 336n47 , 338n78 , 383n14 , 388n6
Anhedonia, 316n71
Annals, 253–54
Anthony, Saint, 30
Anthropocentrism, 291 , 385nn16–17
Anthropology, anthropologists, 88 , 89 , 90 , 91 , 93–95 , 335n22 , 335n29 , 335n32 , 335n35 , 338n84 , 361n9
Apartheid, 81
Apocalyptic imagery, 51 , 74 , 75 , 249 , 291 , 383n16
Apostles or apostolic movements, postbiblical, 53 , 56 , 321n89 , 341n18 , 382n12 , 382–83n13
Apostolic models, 53 , 56 , 280–81 , 321n89 , 357n11
Application, 16 , 31 , 33 , 37 , 77 , 113 , 116 , 117 , 122 , 123 , 142 , 149 , 150 , 165 , 166 , 208 , 211–12 , 225 , 237 , 238 , 239–40 , 243 , 246–51
Aquinas, Thomas, 308n57 , 319n49 , 356n65 , 364n12
Archer, Kenneth, 124
Arminianism, nineteenth-century, 313n37
Armstrong, Chris, 300
Arranged marriages, 79
Asaju, Dapo, 302
Asamoah-Gyadu Kwabena, 302
Asbury, Francis, 56 , 321n88 , 321n89
Asbury Theological Seminary, 32 , 298–300 , 302 , 326n3
Asbury University, 46
Asian theology, Asiacentric readings, 295 , 331n23 , 386n8 , 387n17
Asimov, Isaac, 135
Assemblies of God, 104 , 122 , 132 , 267 , 279 , 281 , 321n82 , 341nn15–16 , 342n21 , 378n11 , 382n11
Assemblies of God Theological Seminary, 17
Associations, mental, 34
Assumed information. See Implicit information
Atheistic vs. theistic assumptions, 93 , 168–70 , 171 , 174 , 180 , 190 , 255 , 313–14n41 , 337n58 , 358n24 , 360n50 , 361n4 , 362n20
Atkinson, William, 301
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, 361n8
Augustine, 13 , 30 , 48 , 136 , 361n5 , 371n11 , 374n22 . See also the Index of Ancient Sources
Augustine, Daniela, 387n3
Authorial audience, 145 , 340n10 . See also Ideal audience
Authorial intention, 129 , 130 , 133–41 , 327n12 , 340n2 , 349n3 , 349n7 , 351n42 , 351n44 , 351n46 , 352n56 , 352n10 ; not an exclusively modern concern, 136 , 344n47 , 347–48n65 , 363n8 ; and Pentecostals, 138 , 341n13 , 345n31 , 359n33
Authorial meaning, 69 , 123 , 124 , 129 ; and various levels of authorship, 339–40n1
Ayegboyin, Deji, 302
Azusa Street Mission and Revival, 8 , 46 , 62 , 65 , 132 , 266 , 325nn49–50 , 378n7 , 378n16
Babel, 59–60
Background, ancient cultural (historical context), 16 , 40 , 72 , 84 , 117 , 125 , 127–29 , 131–32 , 135 , 142 , 149 , 330n60 , 351n33 , 352n4 , 353n20 ; and pentecostalism, 125 , 127–29 , 131–32 , 146 , 333n43 , 346nn36–37 ; importance of, 119–32 , 139 , 140–41 , 143–44 , 165 , 352n6 , 354n34 ; not an exclusively modern concern, 117 , 119 , 129–32 , 136 , 146 , 347n54 . See also Languages and culture
Baconian induction, 350n21
Baker-Fletcher, Garth Kasimu, 301
Baker-Fletcher, Karen, 301
Baker, Heidi and Rolland, 313n40
Bakker, Jim, 269
Bangor University, 387n2
Baptism in the Spirit, 22 , 23 , 61 , 166 , 282 , 285 , 324n29 , 383n15
Baptism, water, 54
Baptists, 13 , 15 , 18 , 275 , 283 , 297 , 305n9 , 309n78 , 319n61 , 321n87 , 324n35 , 378n5 , 378n8 , 378nn16–17 , 383n14 , 383n16 , 388n6
Barnabas, Epistle of, 243
Barth, Karl, 15 , 48 , 96 , 291 , 375n47 , 377n75 , 385nn16–17
Bartholomew I Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, 327n10
Basil, 373n20
Baumert, Norbert, 298
Baylor University, 308n58
Beardsley, Monroe, 134
Bede, the Venerable, 64
Bediako, Kwame, 298
Beers, Holly, 298
Belfon, Camilla, 388n4
Bell, E. N., 324n29
Bellini, Peter, 298
Benedictines, 13
Bennett, Harold, 300
Biases. See Blind spots; Presuppositions
Biblical theology, 46 , 237 , 250 . See also Theological interpretation
Bibliomancy, 265 , 269 , 343n46 , 377n2
Biculturalism, 65–66
Biography, ancient, 33 , 143 , 151 , 167 , 194 , 195–96 , 200 , 243 , 245 , 252–53 , 358n28 , 363n8 , 365n23
Black church. See African-American churches
Blackwell, Benjamin, 298
Blind spots, 10 , 66 , 70 , 79–80 , 81 , 82 , 87 , 88 , 97 , 295 , 341n13
Blomberg, Craig L., 283
Blumhardt, Johann Christoph, 96 , 339n97
Boda, Mark, 300
Bogomils, 121
Boldness, 26
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 377n75
Booth, Wayne C., 68
Booth, William and Catherine, 319n61
Bosworth, F. F., 62 , 323n22 , 323n28 , 325n50 , 345n16
Bowens, Lisa, 298
Boyd, Gregory, 301
Bradley, James, 300
Braide, Garrick Sokari, 89 , 331n20
Brethren, 14
Brideprice, bridewealth, 70 , 79
Brown, Mary Catherine, 387n4
Brown, Michael, 300
Brown University, 308n58
Bruce, F. F., 14
Buber, Martin, 309n68
Bucer, Martin, 374n20
Bullinger, Heinrich, 307n32
Bultmann, Rudolf, 96–97 , 120 , 125 , 128 , 161 , 290–92 , 312n19 , 358n19 , 358n23 , 384n4 , 384nn11–12
Burgess, Stanley M., 300
Businessmen’s revival, 46
Calvin, John (Jean), 13 , 131 , 189 , 307n32 , 309n66 , 315n64 , 364n12 , 371n11 , 374n20 , 375n42 , 383n19
Calvin College, 283 , 302 , 383n19
Cambridge Seven, the, 324n39
Campbell, Douglas, 298
Canaanites, 32 , 73 , 228 , 231 , 232–33 , 371n18
Cane Ridge Revival, 46
Canon, Scripture as, 68–69 , 87 , 101–18 , 119 , 124 , 128 , 147 , 148 , 189 , 279–80 , 340n6 , 340n9 , 341n16 , 342n24 , 342n30 , 345n22 ; deciding, 80 , 198 , 365n32 ; purpose of, 107–9 , 115
Canonical readings, 239 , 315n55 , 358n28 , 368n10
Canon within a canon, 80–81 , 107 , 198 , 209 , 218 , 368n16 , 376n57
Cantalamessa, Raniero, 303
Capital offenses, 227–32 , 233
Capps, Charles, 121
Caricatures. See Stereotypes
Carpenter, Joel, 283 , 383n19 , 383n22
Carson, D. A., 283
Case studies, biblical accounts as, 166 , 366n36
Cashwell, G. B., 325n42
Castello, Daniel, 301
Catchwords, 368n11
Catholic Apostolic Church, 382n12 . See also Irving, Edward
Catholic Biblical Quarterly , 388n6
Catholic charismatics, 8 , 83 , 297 , 303 , 339n99 , 388n6
Catholic Commentary on Holy Scripture, 388n6
Catholics, Catholicism, Roman, 8 , 14 , 17 , 27 , 57 , 83 , 105 , 324n33 , 327n10 , 336n47 , 388n7 . See also Jesuits; Monastic movements
Celtic traditions, 378n16
Central Africa, 165
Cessationism, 5 , 8 , 9 , 11 , 15 , 50 , 54–55 , 199 , 250 , 254–55 , 256–57 , 270 , 275 , 280 , 283–85 , 288 , 303 , 320nn74–75 , 336n52 , 341n15 , 360n54 , 375n42 , 376n58 , 383n19 ; primary definition of in this book, 54 , 321n84 , 383n1
Chambers, Oswald, 14
Chan, Simon, 301
Characters, narrative, 40 , 195 , 252–53
Charismata, 8–10 , 23 , 26 , 176 , 256–57 , 275 , 282 , 284 , 285 , 287 , 297 , 303 , 325n46 , 367n5 , 383n18
Charismatic, definition in this book, 8 , 282–83 , 383n18
Charismatic errors. See Subjectivism
Charismatic/Pentecostal scholars, 17 , 64 , 120 , 137–38 , 166–67 , 252 , 263 , 296–303 , 377n69 , 387–88n4 , 388n6 . See also particular scholars, e.g., Fee, Gordon D.
Chicago School, 68
Childs, Brevard, 146
Chile, 378n16
China, 46 , 81 , 84 , 279 , 327n16 , 331n16 , 378n16 , 386n9
Choi, Meesaeng, 300
Christian and Missionary Alliance (CMA), 14 , 53 , 267 , 323n28 , 324n39 , 378n11 , 388n6
Christian epistemology, 7 , 104 , 127 , 153–204 , 361n5 ; and hermeneutics, 173–86 , 287
Christian interpretation, 7 , 11 , 12–15 , 24 , 173–86 , 237 , 255 , 286–88 , 372n3 , 375n49
Christological center, christocentrism, 160 , 209 , 217–18 , 237–43 , 253 , 260 , 287 , 288 , 368n16 , 369n42 , 370n55 , 372n1 , 373n12 , 374n20 , 383n2 , 387n18
Chrysostom, John, 13 , 64 . See also Index of Ancient Sources
Church of God, Cleveland, 104
Clement of Alexandria, 371n20
Cleveland, Christena, 300
Cognitive dissonance, 92 , 200
Coles, Jamie, 300
Colonialism, 81 , 294 , 331n20 , 386n9
Communication theory, communication in interpretation, 19 , 68–69 , 125 , 134–35 , 138 , 142 , 144 , 149 , 327n8 , 341n13 , 342n31 , 352n56 , 354n32 , 384n6 ; failed communication, 137 , 145 , 346n31
Communities of interpretation, 57 , 66 , 69–70 , 86 , 96 , 173 , 275–76 , 277–82 , 294 , 318n29 , 326n62 , 342n31 , 382n9 ; apostolic authority and, 280–81 ; biblical support for, 277–79 ; dangers of premature appeal to, 279–80 , 342n24 , 382n9 , 382n11 ; identity of Pentecostal communities of interpretation, 281–82 , 382n11
Compulsion vs. belief, 362n22
Concessions to human sinfulness, 215 , 231–32 , 371n20
Condescension, divine, 371n20
Congo, Republic of, 11 , 68 , 69 , 116 , 283
Conquest lists, 233
Constructing meaning, 102 , 123 , 124 , 333n49 , 340n5 , 340n6 ; reconstructing earlier meaning, 99 , 102–3 , 127 , 134 , 139–41 , 145 , 333n43 , 351n33 , 352n7 , 353n10 , 353n18 . See also Meaning, definition(s) of
Consumerism, spiritual, 269 , 270 , 271 , 276 . See also Marketing messages
Contextualization, 66 , 67–111 (esp. 73–79 , 87 ), 121 , 142 , 246 , 278 , 292 , 312n20 , 345n11 , 355n62 , 359n29 ; inevitability of, 77–78 ; within the Bible, 73–75 , 150 , 166 , 231 , 233 , 328n36 , 371n11
Continuationism, 5 , 39 , 50 , 52 , 54–56 , 158 , 178 , 238 , 248 , 256–57 , 282–84 , 287–88 , 297 , 388n5
Continuity between the Testaments, 54–55 , 209–11 , 220–23 , 235–36 , 259–60 , 321n85 , 372n8 . See also Laws and law
Copan, Paul, 301
Corporate (moral and theological) blindness, 178–80
Cosmology, 156 , 164 , 201 , 291 , 361n11 , 366n39
Counterreadings, 82 , 122 , 127 , 340n8 , 366n44
Covenant, 219 , 221 , 223 , 224 , 231 , 247 , 249 , 368n15 , 370n2 ; new covenant, 220 , 223 , 231 , 241 , 250 , 251 , 257 , 372n3 , 375n35
Cowan, Benjamin Dwayne, 388n4
Creation narratives, 192–94 , 232 , 342n26
Creeds and biblical interpretation, 238 , 266
Critical realism, 344nn1–2 , 344n10
Croasman, Matt, 387n4
Cross-cultural communication, 68–76 (esp. 71 , 72–74 ), 119 , 238 , 277 , 327n7 , 331n25 , 335n30
Cross-cultural mission, 22 , 61 , 63–64 , 67 , 324n36
Cruciform perspective, 174 , 175 , 209 , 259 , 279
Cuba, 97
Cultural literacy, 99
Culture, reading with both ancient and modern, 1 , 26 , 68 , 72 , 77 , 79 , 97 , 99 , 116–17 , 120 , 122 , 124 , 125 , 127 , 130 , 131 , 135 , 142 , 145–51 , 192 , 247 , 286 , 288 , 290 , 293 , 328n37 , 338n81 , 346n44 , 350n20 , 354n41 , 355n58 , 358n27 , 366n36 , 377nn66–69 , 377n73
Curses, 336n43 . See also Ancestors: curses from; Generational curses, popular teaching about; Witchcraft
Daniels, David, 298
Darko, Daniel, 298
Davids, Peter, 298
Declaration of Independence, 246
Deconstruction, 86 , 138 , 333nn49–51 , 340n9
Degrees of moral blindness, 179–80 , 185–86 , 361n6
Deification, 121 , 122 , 263 , 270 , 380n41
Deism, 93 , 158 , 172 , 336n56 , 385n19
Del Colle, Ralph, 301
Demons. See Spirits
Demythologization, 291 , 358n19
Depravity and human reason, 177–79 , 183 , 186
Derrida, Jacques, 333n49 , 333n51 , 351n35
Design in texts, 19 , 99–100 , 133–41 , 191 , 247 , 252 , 340nn2–3 , 351n40 , 352n53 , 352n7 , 356n73 , 359n29
Devotional reading, 14 , 24–25 , 247 , 265 , 277 , 319n56 , 354n41 , 375n40
Dickens, Charles, 135 , 139 , 352n52
Difficulties, in biblical texts, 130 , 194–97 , 255
Dilthey, Wilhelm, 45 , 290 , 316n4 , 318n29 , 340n5 , 366n36 , 384nn2–4
Dispensationalism, 53 , 54 , 310n86 , 319n59 , 321n80 , 341n15 , 376nn57–58 ; progressive, 54 , 312n26 , 376n58
Diversity: in biblical theology, 23 ; in evangelical theology, 266 ; in global pentecostalism, 282 , 296 , 323n23 , 331n29 , 370n3 ; of hermeneutical approaches among pentecostals/charismatics, 263 , 303 ; in Majority World voices, 295 , 319n58 , 335n30 ; in Pentecostal theology, 62 , 296 , 323nn23–25 , 341n15 , 345n16 ; in postcolonial approaches, 294 , 386n8 , 387n16 , 387n18
Divination, 228 , 231 , 265 , 343n46
Divorce, 42 , 215–16 , 232 , 253 , 369nn37–39
Documentary hypothesis, 332n36
Dominicans, 53
Dowry, 70
Dreams, 115 , 343n44 , 369n40 , 375n50
Droll, Anna Marie, 388n4
Dunn, James D. G., 23 , 62–63 , 298
Easter bunny, 80
Eastern Orthodoxy, 13 , 105 , 312n19 , 327n10
Ebeling, Gerhard, 15
Eddy, Paul, 298
Edwards, Jonathan, 109 , 268 , 314n52 , 315n60 , 319n61 , 378n15
Egypt, Egyptians, 32 , 147 , 185 , 230 , 248 , 331n16 , 342n26
Emergence, 327n12
Emic and etic approaches, 93
Emmanuel College, 387n3
Emotion, 30 , 36 , 121 , 189 , 268 , 316n71 . See also Affective approaches
Empire criticism. See Imperial criticism
Empiricism, 155 , 156–57 , 163 , 312n25 , 357n9
Enchanted, reenchanted world, 201
Enlightenment, 92 , 129 , 130 , 131 , 136 , 344n6 , 347n55 , 374n35 , 384n5
Enlightenment skepticism, 8 , 57 , 84 , 92 , 95 , 97 , 191
Episcopalians, 18
Epistemic approaches varied by discipline, 156 , 169–70
Epistemology, 7 , 91 , 96 , 337n62 , 357n9 , 358n25 ; and hermeneutics, 173–86 , 344n2 , 356n3 , 384n5 . See also Christian epistemology; Empiricism
Erasmus, Desiderius, 131 , 239 , 371n11
Eschatological reading, 5 , 20 , 21 , 39 , 49–54 , 249 , 257 , 277 , 282 , 286 , 289 , 319n60 , 358n19 , 383n16
Eschatology, 101 , 122 , 270 , 291 , 319–20n62 , 320n65 , 341n15 , 382n11 , 385n26 . See also Latter Rain eschatology; Pretribulationalism
Estrada-Carrasquillo, Wilmer, 388n4
Ethics, 10 , 118 , 162 ; extrapolating from biblical texts, 79 , 214 , 225 , 231 , 234 , 376n56
Ethics of interpretation, 139 , 148 , 265 , 340n9
Ethnic reconciliation, 85 , 325nn49–50 , 333n48 , 359n31
Ethnocentrism, 81–82 , 93 , 293–95 , 332n36 , 387n18 . See also Racism
Etter, Maria Woodworth, 345n16
Eurocentrism, 295
European Pentecostalism, 323n23 . See also particular countries, such as Germany; and particular figures, such as Wigglesworth, Smith
Eusebius, 198
Evaluation, discernment, 92 , 104 , 106–11 , 112 , 115 , 126 , 162 , 185 , 188–89 , 250 , 277 , 280 , 313n41 , 321n84 , 334n55 , 342n30 , 343n35 , 344n2 , 355n45 , 362n23 , 363n34
Evangelicals, 6 , 9–10 , 11 , 12 , 14 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 22 , 80–83 , 118 , 120 , 121 , 136 , 137 , 146 , 193 , 270 , 354n35 , 364n14 , 374n35 , 375n43 ; nineteenth-century radical evangelicals, 17 , 21 , 27 , 53 , 56 , 115 , 176 , 188 , 266 , 279 , 310n85 , 363n4 , 381n45
Evangel University, 387n3
Everts, Janet Meyer, 298
Evil, 116
Evolution, creation. See Cosmology
Exegesis: basic, 2 , 117 , 122 , 142 , 276 ; as a cross-cultural task, 57 , 328n37 , 354n39
Existential reading, 125 , 128 , 158 , 161 , 163 , 290–92 , 358nn18–19 , 384n4 , 384n12 , 385n12 , 385n16
Exorcisms. See Spirits
Experiential reading, 21–38 (esp. 25–27 , 30–36 ), 40–44 , 67 , 176 , 199 , 203 , 238 , 255 , 263 , 268–69 , 276 , 277 , 282 , 313n34 , 320n75 , 368n16 ; its biblical character, 35–36 , 260; its desirability, 32–34 , 286 ; its inevitability, 30–32 , 116
Fairies, 80
Faith: analogy of, 80 ; as an epistemic commitment, 162–71 , 174–77 , 284 , 358n18 , 358nn23–24 , 359n48 , 361n5 , 361n10 , 366n40 , 367n46 , 380n40 , 381n45 ; reading with, 11 , 13 , 24 , 25 , 28–29 , 48 , 54 , 55 , 168 , 170 , 172 , 173 , 177 , 186 , 188 , 192 , 198 , 199 , 200 , 201–5 , 219–20 , 254 , 260–61 , 273–74 , 287 , 361n4 , 363n34 , 363n1
Fallen worldviews, 161–62 , 170–72 , 174–75 , 177–82 , 186
Fashions, intellectual, 83 , 344n48 ; popular, 270–71 , 279
Faupel, David William, 300
Fee, Gordon D., 138 , 139 , 166–67 , 252 , 298 , 356n3
Feminist (and related) readings, 294 , 295 , 332n35 , 335n34 , 356n1 , 371n22 , 387n21 . See also Women’s ministry or ordination
Fideism, 292 , 358n18 , 358n23 , 367n2
First Great Awakening, 268 , 379n28
First-time readers, 145 , 353n26
Fish, Stanley, 334n55
Fisher, Elmer Kirk, 349n87
Fletcher-Louis, Crispin, 299
Flexibility, literary, 156 , 194–97 , 255 , 363n8 , 364n14
Flower, J. Roswall, 324n29
Fong, Samantha, 388n4
Ford, J. Massyngberde, 299
Formalism, 86 , 134 , 145 , 147 , 351n36 . See also New Critics
Fowler, Roger, 353n24
Frameworks, epistemic, 157 , 160 , 168–69 , 174–75 , 182 , 186 , 385n12 . See also Presuppositions
Francis (pope), 303
Franciscans, 341n18
Francis of Assisi, Saint, 172
Frei, Hans, 84
Freudian interpretation, 345n24 , 355n46
Fuchs, Ernst, 15
Fulfillment, 52 , 108 , 159 , 248 , 287
Fundamentalism, 17 , 28 , 53 , 310n85 , 321n80 , 362n20 , 364n9 , 366n45
Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 258 , 290 , 351n30 , 351n50 , 356n68 , 377n68 , 384n3 , 384n5
Gallagher, Robert, 298 , 388n6
Gallagher, Sarita, 298
Gaps, or lacunae, in texts, 56 , 123 , 125 , 132 , 141 , 142 , 145 , 147 , 150 , 356n64
Gaps between ancient and modern meaning, 258 , 290–92
Garr, Alfred and Lillian, 325n42
Gates, James, Jr., 357n8
Gelpi, Donald, 301
Generational curses, popular teaching about, 270–72
Genres, 2 , 3 , 16 , 24 , 32 , 73 , 102 , 103 , 117 , 136 , 138–39 , 143 , 189 , 190–98 , 201 , 204 , 214 , 231 , 233 , 256 , 269 , 291 , 347n56 , 349n3 , 351n44 , 351n46 , 353nn14–15 , 363n8 , 364n14 , 364n19 , 365n36 , 366n41 , 376n56
Geometry, 270
Germany, 96 , 327nn16–17 , 385n17
Gezerah shevah , 373n15
Ghana, 70 , 89 , 95 , 302 , 339n92
Gifts, spiritual. See Charismata
Global pentecostalism, 3–4 , 8 , 11 , 49 , 82–83 , 87 , 94 , 263 , 265 , 279 , 281 , 282 , 318n45 , 323n23 , 326n1 , 338n83 , 370n3 , 383n14
Global readings, 49 , 57–98 (esp. 82–83 , 97 ), 278 , 279 , 286–87 , 294 , 331n25 , 334nn53–54 , 335n18 , 341n13 , 345n11 . See also Social locations, reading from
Gnosticism, 121 , 136 , 203 , 291 , 373n20 , 386n29
God: knowing God, 39–41 , 49 , 107 , 160 , 183–84 , 238 , 260 , 274 , 357n16 , 366n36 , 368n16; meeting God in the Bible, 48 , 202 , 203 , 285 , 360n56 , 366n40 , 367n46 , 374n35 , 376n65 ; sovereignty of, 54 , 72 , 265 , 343n46 , 366n45 , 383n1 ; voice of, in Scripture, 2–3 , 4 , 14 , 26 , 40–42 , 87 , 97 , 108 , 109 , 118 , 123–24 , 189 , 201 , 203 , 204 , 247 , 250–51 , 256 , 258 , 288
Goldingay, John, 300
Gonwa, Janna, 388n4
Gordon, A. J., 381n45
Grammatical-historical approach, 10 , 126 , 129 , 131 , 257
Grassroots theologies, 49 , 295 , 319n58 , 345n11 , 387n17 , 387n22
Great (Korean) Revival, 46 , 89 , 321n87
Greaux, Eric, 299
Green, Joel, 299
Greig, Gary, 300
Grids, hermeneutical, 209 , 218 , 293–94 , 335n34 , 344n8 , 368n15 , 368n22
Groothuis, Douglas, 301
Halcomb, T. Michael W., 387n4
Hamartiology, 70
Hanciles, Jehu, 298
Harmonization, 191–92 , 194–98 , 268 , 365n22
Harris, William Wadé, 89 , 334n15
Hays, Richard, 297 , 299 , 388n6
Head coverings, 78 , 128 , 165 , 330n5 , 358n26
Healing, 17 , 94 , 184 , 188 , 260 , 270 , 274 , 283 , 289 , 297 , 338n83 , 382n10 . See also Miracles
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 332n36
Heidegger, Martin, 120 , 290 , 358n19 , 384n4 , 384n11
Henry, Carl F. H., 15
Hermeneutical circle, 116 , 148 , 287
Hermeneutical distance, proximity, 24 , 41–42 , 93 , 192 , 290 , 312n19 , 377n66
Hermeneutical hindsight, 372n2
Hermeneutic of suspicion, 171 , 360n51
Hermeneutic of trust, 171 , 173 , 186 , 202 , 368n9 . See also Faith: reading with
Hermeneutics, descriptive, 1 , 3 , 6 , 7 , 9–10 , 120 , 139 , 150 , 173
Hermeneutics, special-interest, 10 , 120
Herron, Robert, 302
Hesychasm, 13
Heth, William, 299
Hirsch, Eric Donald, 137 , 139 , 150
Historical-critical approaches, 10 , 11 , 15 , 16 , 22 , 83–84 , 117 , 119 , 124 , 125 , 129 , 131 , 134 , 136 , 146 , 191 , 255 , 256 , 281–82 , 291 , 317n13 , 332n36 , 332nn38–39 , 332n41 , 347nn54–55 , 360n50 , 378n4
Historical criticism and historical context, distinction between, 84 , 124 , 125 , 132 , 146 , 347n55
Historical Jesus research, 29 , 368n12
Historical particularity, 99 , 102 , 103 , 132 , 135 , 139–40 , 151 , 158 , 165 , 327n8 , 354n37 , 355n58 , 384n4
Historical precedent (or narrative precedent), 167 , 359n36 , 376n52
Historical reliability, 189 , 191 , 195 , 363n9
Historiography, 30 , 151 , 156 , 167 , 169 , 191 , 195 , 201 , 252 , 256 , 291 , 344n1 , 348n81 , 358n28 , 360n55 , 363n8
History of interpretation. See Reception history
Hocken, Peter, 300
Holiness movement, 4 , 17 , 46 , 53 , 64 , 266 , 310n85 , 323n22 , 323n26 , 363n2 , 383n15
Holy laughter, 268
Holy war, herem , 232–33 , 371n23
Honor and shame conventions, 96 , 369n28
Hopkins, Jamal-Dominique, 299
Horizons, two, 19 , 86 , 120 , 124 , 125 , 133 , 146 , 148 , 149 , 258 , 290 , 312n20 , 344n8 , 376n66 , 377n69 , 384n2
Horton, Stanley, 17 , 132 , 382n11
House churches, 6 , 26 , 275 , 381n50
Hubing, Jeff, 299
Humanist approach to texts, 131
Humble, reading with the, 45–49 , 87 , 97 , 115 , 189 , 222 , 277 , 286 , 318n33
Hume, David, 93 , 94 , 161 , 168 , 169 , 170 , 171 , 336n56 , 337n58 , 337n61 , 338n64 , 357n9
Hunter, Harold, 387n3
Hutterites, 311n16
Ibn Ezra, 374n20
Iceland, 292
Ideal audience, 104 , 123 , 133 , 140 , 150 , 340n10 , 341n11 , 345n21 , 346n31 , 351n48 , 352nn58–59 , 354n28
Ideal author. See Implied author
Ideal types as rhetorical constructs, 185 , 203
Ideological criticism, 293–94 , 344n8
Idestrom, Rebecca, 300
Illumination, 12–15 , 250 , 312n19 , 375nn42–48
Imagination in hearing narrative, 194 , 200–204 , 353n21 , 366n36
Immersion in Scripture, 56
Imperial criticism, 47 , 293 , 386n9
Implicit information, 72 , 87 , 132 , 141 , 208 , 346n35 , 348n69 , 354n32 , 354n34 , 356n71 . See also Background, ancient cultural; Relevance theory
Implied audience. See Ideal audience
Implied author, 99 , 100 , 133 , 140 , 328n33 , 345n31 , 352n53
Incarnation, 99 , 111 , 185 , 380n41
Independent churches, 82–83 , 282
Indeterminacy, underdetermination. See Gaps between ancient and modern meaning; Gaps, or lacunae, in texts
India, 81 , 88 , 90 , 325n42 , 325n49 , 332n35 , 363n3 , 386n9
Indigeneity, 64 , 78 , 81 , 89–95 , 247 , 265
Individualism, 81 , 96 , 249–50 , 266
Indonesia, 78–79 , 92 , 343n44 , 363n3
Inductive Bible study, 14 , 31 , 105 , 205 , 235 , 315n56 , 341n15 , 364n14 , 368n16 , 378n4
Inerrancy discussions, 195 , 364nn13–14
Information. See Implicit information
Inhabiting Scripture, 6 , 28 , 56 , 172 , 200 , 203 , 248 , 367n47 . See also Living within the biblical narrative world
Initial evidence, 62 , 122 , 281 , 282 , 285 , 323n26 , 323n28 , 324n30 , 324n33 , 324nn35–36
Inspiration: prophetic, 44 , 45 , 64 , 327n9 , 350n23 , 365n32 ; of Scripture, 12 , 45 , 105 , 109 , 111 , 126 , 133 , 134 , 142 , 167 , 189 , 192 , 198 , 247 , 250 , 278 , 286 , 364n14 , 364nn17–18 , 365n31 , 375nn47–48 ; vs. mere spontaneity, 113–14 , 147 , 265 , 346n38
Institute for Biblical Research, 328n37
Instone-Brewer, David, 299
Instrumental music, 321n86
Intentional fallacy, 133
International House of Prayer, 382n11
Interpretive communities. See Communities of interpretation
Interpretive traditions, 68 , 104–6 , 235 , 266 , 269 , 279 , 341nn14–18 , 342n24 , 346n36 , 355n45 , 382n11
Intertextuality, biblical, 43 , 145 , 220 , 245 , 354n29 , 367n1 , 367n6 . See also Intrabiblical readings
Intrabiblical readings, 5 , 205–61 , 287 , 365n31 , 367n4 , 377n2
Ireland, 90
Ireland, Mareque Steele, 301
Irony, 140 , 147 , 178 , 352n54
Irving, Edward, 323n26 . See also Catholic Apostolic Church
Islam, Muslims, 90 , 364n18 , 386n9 . See also Qur’an
Italy, 327n16
Jackson, Alicia, 388n4
Japan, 386n9
Jaspers, Karl, 292
Jerome, 130 , 364n15 , 371n11 , 373n20
Jesus Family, 311n16
Jesus Revival (Jesus movement), 46 , 81 , 311n16
Johnson, Luke Timothy, 299 , 388n6
Johnson, Reg, 300
Joy, 23 , 36 , 41 , 43 , 268 , 378n16
Jungian interpretation, 355n46
Kamudzandu, Israel, 299 , 388n6
Kant, Immanuel, 161 , 175 , 355n56 . See also Neo-Kantianism
Kärkkäinen, Veli-Matti, 301
Kay, William, 301
Keating, Daniel, 301
Kendall, R. T., 302
Kepler, Johannes, 357n7
Kerr, D. W., 318n33 , 319n55 , 323n28 , 324n29 , 355n54
Kerygmatic epistemology, 158 , 159–62
Keyes, Benjamin, 296
Kierkegaard, Søren, 175 , 358n19 , 358n23
Kim, Brittany, 388n4
Kingdom, 21 , 37 , 50 , 53 , 54 , 75 , 161 , 207–8 , 214–15 , 217 , 237 , 253 , 270
Kinship, 79 , 228 , 232 , 336n38
Kisker, Scott, 300
Kisses, holy, 78 , 128 , 165 , 330n5 , 358n26
Knowing God, 39–41 , 49 , 107 , 160 , 183–84 , 238 , 260 , 274 , 357n16 , 366n36 , 368n16 . See also Voice of the Spirit, in Scripture
Korea, 46 , 81 , 89 , 321n87 , 338n74
Kraft, Charles, 298
Kuzmic, Peter, 298
Laboy, Felicia Howell, 297
Ladd, George Eldon, 17 , 54 , 310n3
Language, frequent adequacy of, 86 , 138 , 140 , 141 , 333n49 , 333n51 , 351n33
Languages and culture, 68 , 79 , 84 , 86 , 87 , 89 , 102 , 112 , 126 , 128 , 130 , 134 , 142 , 147 , 150 , 232 , 328n32 , 352n9 , 353n10
Larmer, Robert A., 301
Larsen, Timothy, 301
Latin America, 81 , 82 , 96 , 386n9 . See also particular nations
Latino/a churches, 96 , 339n99 , 357n14 , 378n16
Latino/a theology, 295 , 315n54 , 323n23
Latter Day Saints, Church of, 382n12
Latter Rain eschatology, 21 , 49 , 319n59
Law, William, 46
Laws and law: biblical, 205 , 209 , 211–14 , 218 , 219–36 , 256 , 257 , 259–60 , 287 ; civil, 214–15 , 231 , 233 , 235 , 239 , 258 , 261 , 331n15 , 332n36 , 368n15 , 370n1 , 371n11 . See also Sabbath
Lectio divina , 13
Lee University, 387n3
Lessons in stories. See Morals in stories
Letter and Spirit, 213 , 214 , 218 , 257–58 , 376n61 , 376n63 , 376n65
Letters, genre of, 138 , 151 , 252 , 256–57 , 365n36 , 376nn57–58
Levirate marriage, 70
Lewis, C. S., 200
Lex Talionis , 233
Liberationist readings, 47 , 293 , 386n8
Liberation theology, 47 , 70 , 81 , 339n103 , 381n4
Libya, 327n16
Lightfoot, J. B., 13
Lightfoot, John, 131
Linguistic criticism, 353n24
Linguistics, 69 , 145 , 327n12
Literary and historical approaches together, 141–45
Literary criticism, 129 , 144 , 145 , 282 . See also Ideal audience; Narrative readings; Reader-response approaches
Literature, Bible as, 2–3 , 103 , 117 , 126 , 141 , 147 , 263 , 269
Litwak, Kenneth, 299
Living within the biblical narrative world, 6 , 28 , 33 , 43 , 167 , 168 , 172 , 188 , 199–202 , 254–55 , 287 , 363n2 , 366n40 , 367n47 , 377n72
Logical positivism, 357n4
Lord’s Supper, 54 , 165 , 362n23 , 376n58
Love, centrality of, 208–10 , 213 , 214 , 233–35 , 238 , 368n19 , 385n16
Luther, Martin, 13 , 17–18 , 48 , 80 , 105 , 107 , 131 , 198 , 238–39 , 308n51 , 309n71 , 319n51 , 319n61 , 331n15 , 341n16 , 358n19 , 362n23 , 364n15 , 365n22 , 368nn15–16 , 371n11 , 372n27 , 372n4 , 374n20 , 375n42 , 376n65
Lutherans, 90 , 96 , 97 , 279 , 297 , 299–301 , 308n51 , 361n9 , 383n14 , 384n11 , 388n6
Lyons, Thomas, 388n4
Ma, Julie, 298
Ma, Wonsuk, 298
MacArthur, John, 283 , 303 , 388n7
Mainline Protestant churches, 83 , 94 , 267 , 284 , 388n7
Majority World readings, 49 , 57 , 67 , 83 , 84 , 87 , 88–98 (esp. 94–97 ), 294 , 296 , 387n17
Malaysia, 302
Maloney, George A., 300
Manifested Sons teaching, 122 , 380n41 , 382n11
Marcion, 235
Margins, reading from social, 46 , 326n59
Martell-Otero, Loida, 302 , 388n6
Martin, Francis, 299
Martin, Ralph, 301
Martin, Walter, 302
Marxism, Marxist interpretation, 172 , 345n24 , 355n46 , 360n56
Maskell, Caleb J. D., 388n4
McCain, Danny, 283
McClymond, Michael, 301
McDermott, Gerald, 301
McDonnell, Kilian, 301
McKnight, Scot, 299
McPherson, Aimee Semple, 307n29 , 319n60 , 345n16
Meadows, Philip, 298
Meaning, definition(s) of, 102–3 , 123–24 , 126 , 132 , 133 , 135 , 137 , 138 , 140 , 146 , 150 , 246 , 340n5 , 346n31 , 374n30 , 377n68
Meaning, fuller, 31 , 315n55 , 374n30
Medical anthropology, 93–94 , 336n45 , 338n74
Meditating on Scripture, 49 , 316n11 . See also Lectio divina
Mediterranean cultures, 45 , 71 , 74 , 103 , 126 , 230
Meeting God in the Bible, 48 , 202 , 203 , 285 , 360n56 , 366n40 , 367n46 , 374n35 , 376n65
Mennonites, 297 , 300 , 388n6 . See also Anabaptists
Messianic Judaism, 6 , 26 , 80
Metahistorical questions (regarding philosophy of historiography), 16
Metanarratives, 174 , 200 , 367n47 , 383n16
Metaxas, Eric, 302
Methodism, Methodists, 15 , 56 , 97 , 266 , 297 , 302 , 318n35 , 321n87 , 334n15 , 363n3 , 378n16 , 381n50 , 388n6
Middle Eastern cultures, 45 , 85 , 103 , 126 , 318nn28–29 , 331n16 , 331n18 . See also Ancient Near Eastern contexts
Middle finger, 78–79
Miller, A. G., 301
Miller, Kris, 388n4
Minority perspectives, 80 , 87
Minority readings, 6 , 87 , 97
Miracles, 16 , 54 , 92–97 , 109 , 168–72 , 174 , 177 , 191 , 199 , 202 , 254 , 257 , 337nn59–64 , 339n98 , 343n34 , 376n55 , 385n19 , 386n30
Missiology, missiologists, 17 , 21–22 , 73 , 78–79 , 81 , 82 , 88 , 89 , 91 , 95 , 298 , 331n20 , 332n30 , 346n44
Missional reading, 39 , 42–43 , 79 , 166 , 167 , 286 , 383n2
Missionary tongues, 22 , 64 , 324n39
Model reader, 351n48
Models, biblical, 55 , 166 , 173 , 208 , 216 , 232 , 240 , 242 , 243 , 246 , 251 , 252–55 , 256 , 266 , 367n4 , 368n9
Modernism, 19 , 28 , 202 , 310n85 , 332n43 , 342n31 , 377n72
Monastic movements, 27 , 28 . See also Benedictines; Dominicans; Franciscans
Montgomery, Carrie Judd, 345n16 , 378n11
Morals in stories, 358n28 , 366n36
Moreland, J. P., 302
Morphew, Derek, 387n3
Moussounga, Jacques, 283
Mühlen, Heribert, 302
Müller, George, 321n83
Multiculturalism, 60 , 64–67 , 120 , 294 , 334n54 . See also Social locations, reading from
Musy, Meghan, 388n4
Mythography, myths, 136 , 143 , 167 , 200 , 201 , 230 , 291 , 353n21 , 386n29
Narrative readings, 22 , 24 , 32–34 , 64 , 69 , 139 , 144 , 150 , 166–67 , 184 , 200 , 204 , 239–40 , 244–45 , 252–55 , 256 , 282 , 358n28 , 359n28
Narratives and theology, 22 , 166–67 , 252–55 , 256 , 359n30 , 359nn32–33 , 359n36 , 376n52 , 376nn56–57 , 383n2
Narratives qualifying discourse, 186 , 371n22
Narrative techniques, 194–95 , 198
Narrative theology, 22 , 55 , 359n32
Native Americans, 216
Nature, divine revelation in, 93 , 107 , 158 , 168–70 , 202 , 342n26 , 357n10 , 366n39
Nazis, 344n1 , 358n19 , 384n11 ; and biblical interpretation, 79 , 81 , 330n10 , 340n8
Neill, Stephen, 89
Neo-Kantianism, 384n11
Nepal, 79
Netherlands, 336n43
Neuroscience, 145
New Critics, 68 . See also Formalism
Newman, John Henry, 337n60
New Perspective, 372n4
New Testament interpretation of the Old Testament, 118 , 205–61 , 367nn1–4 , 367n6 , 373n16
Nicaragua, 79
Nigeria, 31 , 46 , 78 , 79 , 165 , 283 , 292 , 302 , 324n35
Noll, Stephen, 299
Nordling, Cherith Fee, 302
North Central University, 387n3
Northwestern University, 387n3
Nyasha, Bishop, 336n47
O’Connor, Edward, 302
Odor, Judith, 388n4
Orality, 370n3
Oral Roberts University, 296
Oral traditions, 194 , 196 , 197
Origen, 13 , 243 , 371n11 . See also Index of Ancient Sources
“Original meaning,” 99 , 140–41 , 145 , 147 , 339n1 , 342n31 , 346n44 , 377n68
Ortiz, Leila, 388n4
Owen, John, 375n42
Oxford University, 93 , 298 , 381n50
Ozman, Agnes, 62
Pachuau, Lalsangkima, 298 , 388n6
Palmer, Phoebe, 378n6
Palmer Theological Seminary, 283
Panama, 95
Parables, 191 , 207 , 270 , 367n7 , 368n9 , 370nn8–9
Paradigm shifts, 96 , 128–29 , 333n46
Parham, Charles, 64 , 323n26 , 363n2 , 383n16
Park, Andrew Sung, 302
Pascal’s wager, 178
Pathos, 315n60
Patristic interpretation of Scripture, 64 , 131 , 250 , 252 , 290 , 295 , 341n16 , 342n22 , 371n11 , 374n22 . See also Reception history
Patterns, 253–55 , 359n36 , 372n2 . See also Models, biblical
Pearlman, Myer, 319n59
Pentecost, experience of, 8 , 248 , 288
Pentecostal hermeneutics, with respect to Pentecostal denominations, 4
Pentecostal scholarship. See Charismatic/Pentecostal scholars; Scholarship on pentecostalism
Pentecostal vs. pentecostal, 3 , 7 , 8
Perlocution, vs. illocution, 12
Persecution, 315n58
Peru, 89
Pew surveys, 94 , 323n26 , 338n75 , 338n77
Pharisees, 48 , 209–10 , 212 , 214–15 , 235 , 312n21 , 368n22 , 369n35 , 370n6
Philippines, 90 , 292 , 359n42
Philosophic hermeneutics, 2 , 11 , 17 , 358n19 , 358n24 , 384n12 , 385n13
Physics, 357n8
Pierce, Yolanda, 297
Pietists, 13 , 14 , 354n41 , 384n8
Pindar, 143
Pinnock, Clark, 302
Piper, John, 302
Plurivocality, plurivocity, 119 , 148
Pneumatology, 297 and passim. See also Baptism in the Spirit; Spirit and epistemology
Poetry, 69 , 99 , 134 , 136 , 149 , 202 , 249 , 315n58 , 365n36
Polemic, 367n3 , 368n11 , 375n42
Politics, political use of language, 86–87 , 167 , 191 , 216 , 266
Poloma, Margaret, 301
Polysemous, polyvalent, texts as, 119 , 122–23 , 342n30 , 355n45
Popular-level teaching, 2 , 5 , 9 , 14 , 16 , 18 , 25 , 53 , 72 , 87 , 113 , 115 , 125 , 189 , 195 , 208 , 235 , 243 , 263 , 265–74 , 276 , 295 , 341n13 , 342n30 , 378n4 , 378n6 , 379n31 , 380n34 , 381n52 ; vs. academicians, 24 , 122 , 131 , 182 , 253–54 , 267 . See also Word of Faith teaching
Postbiblical doctrine, 55 , 255 , 256 , 267
Postcolonial interpretation, 47 , 82 , 84 , 293–95 , 331n23 , 332n39 , 386n1 , 386n8 , 387n16 , 387n18 . See also Social locations, reading from
Postmillennialism, 21 , 279 , 313n37
Postmodern interpretation, 10 , 19 , 119–21 , 139 , 181 , 207 , 334n55 , 342n31 , 344nn1–2 , 344nn6–7 , 345n23 , 368n10 , 384n5
Posttribulationalism, 341n15 , 382n11
Powell, Mark Allan, 299 , 388n6
Power encounters, 6 , 89–90 , 92
Powery, Emerson, 299
Prayer, 13–14 , 15 , 21–22 , 25 , 32 , 44 , 45 , 46 , 54 , 56 , 59 , 95 , 109 , 114 , 115 , 128 , 129 , 168–69 , 172 , 177 , 192 , 202 , 222 , 247 , 249 , 250 , 256 , 271 , 278 , 283 , 297 , 307n46 , 309n66 , 315n58 , 316n4 , 317n26 , 343n44 , 357n15 , 362n15 , 365n36 , 378n6 , 379n30 , 381n5
Presbyterians, 15 , 89 , 113 , 297 , 336n47 , 361n9 , 378n16 , 388n6
Prescriptive vs. descriptive, 52 , 86–87 , 125 , 137
Presuppositions, 16 , 26 , 148 , 156 , 163 , 169 , 174–75 , 180–82 , 186 , 255 , 290 , 292 , 312n28 , 344n8 , 358n19 , 358n24 , 362n18 , 377n66 , 384n2 , 384n5 , 385n14
Pretribulationalism, 101 , 341n15 , 382n11 . See also Dispensationalism
Preunderstanding, 6 , 26 , 40 , 148 , 290 , 292 , 312n27 , 358n19 , 358n24 , 377n67 , 384nn4–5 , 385n15 . See also Presuppositions
Princeton Theological Seminary, 13 , 266 , 297–98 , 378n7
Principles in biblical texts, principlization, 30 , 31 , 69 , 75 , 77 , 78 , 88 , 97 , 132 , 134 , 165 , 212 , 219 , 223 , 225 , 234 , 237 , 247 , 249 , 250 , 256 , 258 , 260 , 271 , 333n48 , 342n30 , 358n28 , 359n29 , 371n11 , 384n3
Probability and historical reconstruction, 140 ; and reconstructing meaning, 355n50
Promise theme, 37 , 52 , 248–49 , 316n2 , 367n3 , 372n6 , 372n8
Proof-texting, 122 , 130 , 176 , 266 , 270 , 378n4 , 379n21 , 380n38
Propagandistic use of texts, 86–87 , 147
Prophecy, 11 , 15 , 44 , 52 , 55 , 61 , 63 , 94 , 106–7 , 114 , 136 , 178 , 188 , 239 , 256–57 , 272 , 275 , 321n84 , 324n30 , 324n36 , 343n36 , 350n15 , 375n42 , 378n7 , 379n30 ; biblical, 133 , 136 , 209 , 210 , 237 , 247 , 248–49 , 258 , 268 ; false, 106 , 108–11 , 112 , 118 , 260 , 268 , 280 , 343n35 , 367n4 , 382n11 ; limitations, 42 , 110 , 118 , 126 , 129 , 253 , 289 , 343n35 , 343n36
Propositions, principlizing as, 165
Prosperity teaching, 8 , 9 , 28 , 106 , 121 , 269 , 271 , 276 , 321n89 . See also Word of Faith teaching
Proverbs (genre of), 73 , 147 , 269 , 331n16
Psalms, 32 , 136 , 191 , 208 , 243 , 315nn57–58 , 374n22
Psychology, psychologists, 91 , 96 , 139 , 267 , 296 , 333n45 , 333n50 , 335n32 , 335nn34–35 , 355n46 , 384n3
PTL Club, 269
Puritans, 13 , 32 , 46 , 319n61
“Q,” 365n27
Quakers, 388n6
Qureshi, Nabeel, 194
Raburn, Michael, 388n4
Racial reconciliation. See Ethnic reconciliation
Racism, 30 , 46 , 65 , 79–81 , 93 , 295 , 325n50 , 362n18
Ramabai, Pandita, 46 , 318n40 , 323n23
Ramírez, Daniel, 301
Reader identification, 33 , 366n37
Reader-response approaches, 9 , 86 , 121 , 124 , 277 , 334n53 , 344n10 . See also Social locations, reading from
Readings. See Counterreadings; Feminist (and related) readings; Global readings; Liberationist readings; Minority readings; Missional readings; Narrative readings; Transreading
Reception history, 9 , 17 , 81 , 137 , 150 , 320n75 , 341n13 . See also Christian sources in the Index of Ancient Sources
Recontextualization, 69 , 134 , 138 , 150 , 166 , 234 , 330n58 ; in Scripture, 75 , 221 , 248 , 268 , 355n47 , 364n18 , 372n4
Redaction criticism, 22 , 167 , 281–82 , 340n1 , 353n11 , 359n35 , 373n18
Reformation, Reformers, 15 , 18 , 27 , 50 , 56 , 129 , 131 , 239 , 266 , 307n32 , 331n15 , 341n18 , 347n55 , 368n15 , 378n5 , 378n7 . See also Bucer, Martin; Calvin, John; Erasmus, Desiderius; Luther, Martin; Zwingli, Ulrich
Refugees, 67
Regent University, 296
Reincarnation, 82
Relational reading, 29 , 34 , 192 , 260 , 287 . See also Knowing God; Voice of the Spirit, in Scripture
Relativism, 106 , 108 , 120–22 , 255 , 278 , 334n55 , 340n9 , 342n31 , 344n7 , 351n50 , 355n45 , 356n68 , 384n3
Relevance theory, 69 , 72 , 103 , 135 , 145 , 194 , 247 , 327n7 , 328n34 , 341n11 , 349n8 , 354nn31–32 , 354n34 . See also Implicit information
Renaissance, 27 , 130 , 131 , 347n55
Restorationism, 6 , 23 , 26 , 27–28 , 50 , 53 , 56 , 104 , 313nn36–37 , 341n13 , 341n18 , 383n16
Revelation and the divine word, 36 , 55 , 67 , 73 , 107–8 , 111–12 , 147 , 153 , 155 , 158 , 159 , 160–61 , 186 , 200 , 281 , 342n25 , 383n2 , 385n12 . See also Prophecy
Revivals, revivalism, 21 , 23 , 50 , 54 , 61 , 115 , 159 , 188 , 266 , 268 , 279 , 285 , 289 , 378nn7–8 , 378nn15–17 , 379n28 , 382n10 ; Azusa Street Mission and Revival, 8 , 46 , 62 , 65 , 132 , 266 , 325nn49–50 , 378n7 , 378n16 ; businessmen’s revival, 46 ; Cane Ridge Revival, 46 ; First Great Awakening, 268 , 379n28 ; Great (Korean) Revival, 46 , 89 , 321n87 ; Jesus Revival (Jesus movement), 46 , 81 , 311n16 ; Second Great Awakening, 266 , 379n28 ; Welsh Revival, 46
Rhetorical criticism, 130 , 142–44 , 256 , 267 , 274 , 352n7
Richter, Sandra, 300
Ricoeur, Paul, 148 , 367n1 , 384n5
Righteous sufferer, 243
Ripley, Jennifer, 296
Robeck, Mel, 301
Romanticism, 137 , 139 , 376n64
Ruelas, Abraham A., 300
Rural vs. urban cultures, 46 , 85
Russia, 327nn16–17 , 386n9
Ruthven, Jon, 302
Sabbath, 210 , 212–13 , 216 , 224 , 234 , 371nn12–15
Sacrifices, 73 , 74 , 210–11 , 222 , 230–31 , 235 , 256 , 287 , 371n18
Safety nets in interpretation, 66 , 263 , 269 , 272 , 277–85 , 326n62 , 351n50
Safety protocols (literal), 77 , 234
Salvation history, 55 , 103 , 167 , 200 , 221 , 251 , 254 , 256–57 , 354n42 , 365n36 , 367n47 , 368n16 , 373n14
Sanctification, 121
Santiago-Vendrell, Angel, 298
Schatzmann, Siegfried, 299
Scholarship on pentecostalism, 7
Schweitzer, Albert, 120
Science, 31 , 92 , 95 , 96 , 153 , 156 , 169 , 191 , 339n92 , 339n98 , 357n5 , 357n8 , 385n16
Science fiction, 201 , 202 , 353n21
Scofield Reference Bible, 321n82
Scripture: authority of, 3 , 13 , 19 , 26 , 82 , 102 , 104–5 , 112 , 124 , 138 , 141 , 148 , 187–204 , 265 , 273 , 280 , 284 , 289 , 292 , 340n6 , 340n9 , 341n18 , 342n22 , 356n65 , 364n13 , 365n33 , 385n15 ; superstitious use of, 255 , 265 , 379n30 . See also Voice of the Spirit, in Scripture
Scripture Union, 46
Secondary communication, 68 , 135 , 141 , 143 , 145 , 160 , 247 , 353n11
Second Great Awakening, 266 , 379n28
Secular interpretation, 7 , 173
Sells, James, 296
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, 135
Sensus plenior , 133 , 315n55 , 373n16
Septuagint, 192 , 364nn17–18 , 371n22
Servant, Isaiah’s, 243
Seventh-Day Adventists, 314n43
Seymour, William, 62 , 323n22 , 323n24 , 325n50 , 345n16 , 383n16
Shakespeare, William, 135 , 345n24
Shamanism, 90 , 335n27 , 336n38
Sharia , 231
Shelley, Mary, 135
Significance, 134 , 150 , 337n61 , 355n60 , 356nn68–70 , 374n30 , 375n40
Silence, arguments from, 144 , 196 , 324n32 , 324n36 , 353n18
Singapore, 301
Skepticism, heuristic vs. absolute, 163 , 168–69 , 357n9 . See also Enlightenment skepticism
Slavery, 126 , 165 , 230–32 , 233–34 , 362n18 , 371n21
Sloan, David, 388n4
Smail, Thomas Allan, 302
Smale, Joseph, 319n61
Smith, James K. A., 302
Snake handling, 121
Social concern, 6 , 17 , 70 , 80 , 97–98 , 172 , 194 , 216 , 276 , 339n103 , 341n18 , 352n52 , 360n56
Social Darwinism, 172
Social locations, reading from, 9 , 46 , 68 , 82 , 119 , 294 , 334n53 , 335n18 . See also Christian interpretation; Contextualization
Society of Friends, 388n6
Sociology, 83 , 94 , 263 , 293 , 301 , 335n34
Sociostylistic interpretation, 144 , 353n24
Sola Scriptura , 188–89 , 266 . See also Canon, Scripture as; Canon within a canon
South Africa, 81 , 300 , 332n35
Southeastern University, 387n3
Southwestern University, 387n3
Sovereignty of God, 54 , 72 , 265 , 343n46 , 366n45 , 383n1
Soza, Joel, 388n4
Spawn, Kevin, 300
Special-interest hermeneutics, 10 , 120
Speculation, beyond probabilities, 84 , 125 , 144 , 146 , 190 , 195 , 196 , 340n1
Speech-act theory, 26 , 144 , 353n22 , 354n31
Spener, Phillip, 308n63 Spirit baptism. See Baptism in the Spirit
Spirit and epistemology, 153–204 , 287 , 356n3
Spiritism, 292
Spirit-possession beliefs, 89 , 91 , 335n29 , 335n32 , 335n34 , 336n47
Spirits, 88–91 , 97 , 116 , 333n45 , 335n25 , 335n32 , 338n84 , 379n26 , 379nn29–30
Spiritual blindness or inability to understand, 178–80 , 184 , 363n34
Spiritual context, 43–44
Spiritual reading, 34 , 356n73 , 357n17 , 362n23 , 363n1 , 372n5
Spiritual warfare, 379n30
Spittler, Russell, 299
Spong, John Shelby, 338n78
Spotlighting, 194
Spurgeon, Charles, 309n66
Stamps, Robert, 302
Stanley, Christopher, 297 , 299
Statement of Fundamental Truths, 104–5
Stereotypes, 189 , 267 , 375n43 , 377n71
St. Louis University, 17
Stoics, Stoicism, 135 , 185 , 315n60
Storms, Sam, 299
Stowell, Beth, 300
Strauss, David Friedrich, 84 , 96
Studebaker, Steve, 302
Style, 133 , 136 , 141 , 362n25
Subjective experience, 11 , 36 , 112 , 121 , 127 , 147 , 161–62 , 184–86 , 189 , 204 , 237 , 268 , 284–85 , 288 , 289 , 312n25 , 316n69 , 335n35 , 339nn91–92 , 346n39 , 364n13 , 368n10 , 375n42 , 375n45 , 384n4 , 385n16 . See also Experiential reading
Subjectivism, 5 , 11 , 25 , 36 , 85 , 105–6 , 109 , 116 , 118 , 120 , 146 , 147 , 200 , 267–69 , 330n14 , 342n31 , 343n42 , 358n18 , 368n10 , 375n45 , 376nn66–67
Sugirtharajah, R. S., 84
SUM Bible College and Theological Seminary, 387n3
Sunquist, Scott, 298
Superstitious use of Scripture, 255 , 265 , 379n30
Suspending disbelief, 200–202
Suspicion, hermeneutic of. See Hermeneutic of suspicion
Sympathetic reading, 7 , 25 , 44 , 45 , 67 , 93–94 , 171 , 255 , 275 , 286 , 327n9
Syncretism, 9 , 57 , 73 , 79 , 80 , 172 , 263 ; boundaries between contextualization and, 73 , 78
Systematic theology, 70 . See also Theological interpretation
Tan, Siang-Yang, 300
Tanzania, 90
Taylor, Hudson, 81 , 331n19 , 381n45
Teaching, gift of, 55 , 108 , 114–15 , 118 , 127 , 265–66 , 268 , 275 , 280
Teen Challenge, 216
Ten Commandments, 211 , 214 , 224 , 230 , 234 , 368n23
Tennent, Timothy, 298 , 302 , 388n6
“Testament,” Old and New, language of, 321n85
Testimony, 18 , 93 , 103 , 125 , 127 , 159–60 , 164 , 169 , 170 , 172 , 174 , 176 , 182 , 183–84 , 185 , 195 , 196 , 357n14 , 360n46 , 360n55
Tetzel, Johann, 372n27
Theological interpretation, 14 , 15 , 17 , 19–56 (esp. 19 ), 83 , 101 , 125 , 146 , 237 , 238 , 315n54 , 345n11 . See also Christological center, christocentrism
Third Wave, 310n3
Tithing, 209–10 , 234 , 372n26
Tizon, Al, 298
Tolkien, J. R. R., 200
Tongues, 15 , 22 , 23 , 60–64 , 94 , 114 , 122 , 188 , 257 , 279 , 281 , 283 , 285 , 297 , 323n16 , 323nn23–28 , 324nn29–30 , 325n47 , 383n16 , 383n20 ; narrative function in Acts, 60–61 , 166 , 324n33 , 359n36 . See also Missionary tongues
Toronto Blessing, 279 , 314n46 , 382n10
Torrey, R. A., 319n56 , 321n83
Tradition, interpretive. See Interpretive traditions
Trajectories, biblical, 240 , 371n22
Transcendence, divine, 179 , 356n1 , 385n16 , 385n19
Translations, 72 , 75 , 102 , 105 , 127 , 192 , 266 , 291 , 330n58 , 333n44 , 348n76 , 352n9 , 364n17 , 374n32 , 379n32 , 384n7
Transreading, 327n7
Trinity, 104 , 122 , 285 , 341n15
Tupamahu, Ekaputra, 388n4
Turkey, 327n16
Turner, Edith, 90
Turner, Max, 299
Turner, William, Jr., 300 , 388n6
Tuttle, Robert, Jr., 298 , 388n6
Twelftree, Graham, 299
Tyndale, William, 378n5
Typology, 205 , 241–43 , 248 , 367n2 , 367n3
Unique events, 36–37
Universals. See Principles in biblical texts, principlization
University of Maryland, 357n8
University of Michigan, 308n58
University of Valley Forge, 387n3
Upper Room Mission, 349n87
Van De Wale, Bernie, 302
Vanguard University, 387n3
Vaughn, Joy Ames, 388n4
Vernaud, Jacques, 383n21
Via, Dan, 128
Victorinus, 373n20
Vienna Circle, 161
Villafañe, Eldin, 302
Vineyard, 309n78
Viola, Frank, 302
Virgil, 136
Virgin birth, 37 , 242 , 253 , 380n41
Visions, 23 , 35–36 , 94 , 108
Voice of the Spirit, in Scripture, 2–3 , 4 , 14 , 26 , 40–42 , 87 , 97 , 108 , 109 , 118 , 123–24 , 189 , 201 , 203 , 204 , 247 , 250–51 , 256 , 258 , 288
Volf, Miroslav, 302
Vondey, Wolfgang, 302
Voodoo deaths, 91 , 336nn43–44
Vulgate, 72
Wall, Robert W., 299
Walton, Steve, 299
Ware, Frederick, 302
Wariboko, Nimi, 302
Watts, Rikk, 299
Welby, Justin, 303
Welsh Revival, 46
Wesley, John, 24 , 27 , 46 , 49 , 109 , 121 , 172 , 309n68 , 311n16 , 313n34 , 315n60 , 325n47 , 327n19 , 378n7
Wesleyan quadrilateral, 121 , 312n25 , 313n34
Wesleyans, 14 , 15 , 266 , 281 , 383n15
Wessels, Wilhelm, 300
Western readings, 295
Westfall, Cynthia, 299
Westminster Confession, 319n50 , 364n12
Westminster Theological Centre, 387n3
Wheaton College, 386n8
White, Canon Andrew, 383n3
Wigglesworth, Smith, 9 , 132 , 289 , 306n29 , 383n3
Wilkinson, Michael, 301
Willard, Dallas, 300
Williams, Eric Lewis, 302
Williamson, Peter, 299 , 388n6
Wilson, Mark, 299
Wimsatt, W. K., 134
Witchcraft, 80 , 90 , 91–92 , 271 , 335n38 , 336nn38–39 , 336n43 , 336n47
Witherington, Ben, III, 299 , 388n6
Witness of the Spirit, 158 , 162 , 176 , 185 , 189
Womanist perspectives, 332n35
Women’s ministry or ordination, 18 , 27 , 126 , 319n60 , 341n13
Woodley, Randy, 298
Word and Spirit, 9 , 118 , 155–72 , 263 , 269 , 286–87 , 289
Word of Faith teaching, 122 , 204 , 263 , 272–73 , 326n62 , 379n31 , 380nn33–44 . See also Prosperity teaching
Worldly perspective, 159 , 183 , 189 , 202
Worldviews, 10 , 24 , 33 , 55 , 92 , 97 , 161 , 170 , 173 , 174 , 177 , 182 , 188 , 201 , 361n9 , 366n40
Worship, contextualized, 73–74 , 237
Wright, N. T., 67 , 297 , 299 , 388n6
Wyckoff, John, 138
Wycliffe, John, 341n18
Xenoglossia, 64 , 324n39 , 325n42 . See also Missionary tongues
Yale Divinity School, 84 , 95 , 302
Yarhouse, Mark, 296
Yoruba Christians, 324n35
Young-earth creationism, 113
Yung, Hwa, 302
Zambia, 90
Zinzendorf, Count Nikolaus Ludwig von, 279 , 382n8