Hermeneutics

A Pentecostal Option

Bibliographic Data

ID20162495
AuthorsHoward M Ervin (1School of Theology, Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, Oklahoma, corresponding author)
Year1981
Volume3
Issue1
Pages11-25
Publication date1981-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePneuma (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0272-0965 • E-ISSN: 1570-0747
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/157007481x00098
OpenAlexW2008575628
LanguageEN
Citations received8

Fundamental to the study of hermeneutics, as to any academic disciplines, is the question of epistemology. What are the grounds of knowledge ? How does one determine the limits and validity of knowledge? It is not our purpose to discuss the subject in any detail but simply to note basic assumptions that affect our approach to hermeneutics. Two ways of knowing are so much a part of our Western ways of thinking that they are received as axiomatic viz. sensory experience and reason. Any theology that limits itself only to these two ways of knowing is locked into the perennial dichotomy between faith and reason to which the so-called New Hermeneutic1 seeks to speak, however, without much success for reasons to be discussed later

Axiom · Epistemology · Faith · Hermeneutics · Sociology · Christian Theology and Mission · Computer Science · Mathematics · Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies · Philosophy

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