Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Marquette University, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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In Theological Hermeneutics in the Classical Pentecostal Tradition, L. William Oliverio Jr. accounts for the development of Classical Pentecostal theological hermeneutics through four hermeneutical types and concludes with a philosophical basis for future Pentecostal theological hermeneutics within the contours of a hermeneutical realism.

Theological Hermeneutics in the Classical Pentecostal Tradition; Copyright ; Dedication ; Contents ; Abbreviations ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; 1. Theological Hermeneutics, Paradigms and Interdependence ; 2. Classical Pentecostalism as a Tradition ; 3. Review of the Literature ; 4. An Overview of My Thesis.

1: The Theological Roots of Early Pentecostal Theology1. Theological Roots of Classical Pentecostalism and the "Full Gospel" ; 1.1. Roots in the Wesleyan-Holiness Tradition ; 1.2. Roots in the American Revivalist Tradition and Radical Evangelicalism ; 1.3. Roots in the Keswick Movement.

1.4. Roots in Premillennialism 2. Conclusion: The Roots of Early Pentecostal Theology ; 2: The Original Classical Pentecostal Hermeneutic; 1. Major Interpretations of Early Pentecostal Hermeneutics ; 1.1. Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen ; 1.2. Grant Wacker ; 1.3. French Arrington ; 1.4. Kenneth J. Archer.

1.5. Douglas Jacobsen 1.6. Conclusion: Interpretations of Early Pentecostal Hermeneutics ; 2. Early Pentecostal Hermeneuts: Four Exemplars ; 2.1. Charles Fox Parham: Proclaiming the Everlasting Gospel.

2.2. William Joseph Seymour and the Azusa Street Apostolic Faith Mission: The Cradle of Early Pentecostalism 2.3. Charles Harrison Mason: Interpreting the Signs in God's World ; 2.4. Garfield Thomas Haywood: Apostolic Interpretation; 3. Conclusion: The Original Classical Pentecostal Hermeneutic ; 3: The Early Evangelical-Pentecostal Hermeneutic.

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