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This book not only articulates a tradition-specific Pentecostal rationality of Biblical Pragmatism, but also provides the first intellectual history of a major British classical Pentecostal denomination: the Elim Pentecostal Church. Pentecostal theologians increasingly acknowledge that their theological methodology should be informed by a Pentecostal rationality, epistemology and theological hermeneutics. Simo Frestadius offers such a Pentecostal rationality from a Foursquare perspective. Frestadius first analyses and evaluates some of the main contemporary Pentecostal rationalities and epistemologies to date, with a particular emphasis on the works of Amos Yong and James K.A. Smith and L. William Oliverio Jr., before proposing that Alasdair MacIntyre's tradition-focused and historically-minded narrative approach is conducive in providing a more tradition-constituted Pentecostal rationality.
Utilising the methodological insights of MacIntyre, the book then provides a philosophically informed historical narrative of a major British Pentecostal tradition, namely, the Elim Foursquare Gospel Alliance, by exploring its underlying context and roots as a classical Pentecostal movement, its emergence as a religious tradition, and its two major 'epistemological crises'. Based on this historical narration and analysis, it is argued that Elim's tacit Pentecostal rationality is best defined as Pentecostal Biblical Pragmatism in a Foursquare Gospel framework. This form of rationality is then developed vis-à-vis Elim's Pentecostal concept of truth, biblical hermeneutics, and pragmatic epistemic justification in dialogue with William P. Alston. In doing the above, the book not only articulates a tradition-specific Pentecostal rationality of Biblical Pragmatism but also provides the first intellectual history of a major British classical Pentecostal denomination.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Part One: Searching for a Pentecostal Rationality
1. The 'Pentecostal' Rationalities of Amos Yong, James K. A. Smith and l. William Oliverio Jr.
2. On Method: MacIntyre, Tradition and Rationality
Part Two: Narrating a Tradition-specific Pentecostal Rationality
3. Prologues to the Elim Tradition: The Context and Roots of the Elim Argument
4. The Birth of Elim: The Early Opponents, Content, Rationality and Embodiment of the Elim Argument
5. The Elim Argument Extended through Time (I): The Resignation of Jeffreys and Elim's First Epistemological Crisis
6. The Elim Argument Extended through Time (II): The Charismatic/Restoration Movements and Elim's Second Epistemological Crisis
Part Three: (Re)constructing Pentecostal Biblical Pragmatism
7. Pentecostal Truth: Pentecostal Theological Realism
8. Biblical Hermeneutics: Community Discernment of Meaning in a Dialectical Bible
9. Pragmatic Justification: Experiential Awareness and Pragmatic Signs of the Foursquare Gospel
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Elim's Chronology
Appendix 2: Front Page of Elim Evangel 6, no. 1 (January 1925)
Appendix 3: Back Page of Elim Evangel 6, no. 1 (January 1925)
Index
