Black Pentecostal Hermeneutics

James H. Cone’s Theological Sources and Black Pentecostalism

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20161903
AutoresAntipas L Harris (1 Jakes Divinity School USA Dallas, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Volume41
Fascículo2
Páginas193-217
Data de publicação2019-08-30
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPneuma (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0272-0965 • E-ISSN: 1570-0747
EditoraWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/15700747-04102004
OpenAlexW2971823131
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3

This essay advances hermeneutical insights for emerging black pentecostal scholars to consider. The salient question is, “What distinguishes black Pentecostalism?” This study revisits James H. Cone’s sources for black theology for insight into the role of blackness in shaping black Pentecostalism. On the one hand, the study dispels the myth that black Pentecostalism is inherently a spiritual alternative to the fight for social justice. On the other hand, it calls for critical dialogue between Cone’s sources for black theology and black Pentecostalism to advance scholarship on the formation of black pentecostal hermeneutics. This essay explains that blackness is more than a cultural and experiential reality. Blackness is a theological source that correlates with other sources in shaping black Pentecostalism. Blackness, moreover, legitimates black pentecostal proclivities for the integration of the faith, spirituality, and social advocacy. Theological blackness in Pentecostalism has historically distinguished black Pentecostalism from subsequent white Pentecostalism

African american · Black church · Black feminism · Black theology · Black women · Faith · Hermeneutics · Intersectionality · Mythology · Scholarship · Sociology · Spirituality · Theology · Anthropology · Christian Theology and Mission · Gender Studies · Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies · Philosophy · Religious studies