Marius Nel is Research Professor of Ecumene: Pentecostalism and
Neo-Pentecostalism at the Unit for Reformational Theology and the
Development of the South African Society of North-West University,
Potchefstroom, South Africa. He is the author of Pacifism and
Pentecostals in South Africa (2018).
"From one of the southern ends of the earth, Marius Nel provides a
near exhaustive engagement with the existing literature on
pentecostal hermeneutics--scholars should not miss out on the feast
of extensive footnotes reaching from cover to cover!--and comes up
with an almost comprehensive synthesis from a southern African
perspective. What emerges is a reformulation of the classic
this-is-that eschatological sensibility that bridges the scriptural
text with the contemporary horizon, albeit in this case enriched
with the orality and performativity characteristic of an
authentically African pentecostal movement that itself stretches
back, however complicatedly, to the early twentieth-century
transnational and worldwide revival."
--Amos Yong, Professor of Theology & Mission, Fuller Theological
Seminary
"In this carefully researched and historically sensitive book,
Marius Nel recognizes that 'deep in the soul of Pentecostalism are
its African origins.' He draws together his interests in
Pentecostalism and African Christianity to make a wise call for a
Jesus-centered hermeneutic that is Spirit led, eschatologically
alert, and community based. Readers will benefit from the wealth of
information brought together here.
--William P. Atkinson, Senior Lecturer in Pentecostal and
Charismatic Studies, London School of Theology
"In this book Marius Nel defines the distinctive contribution that
African pentecostal hermeneutics makes to hermeneutics . . . [He]
shows how orthodoxy, orthopathy, and orthopraxy are intertwined in
pentecostal hermeneutics, and that interpreters of the Bible should
expect that what people in biblical times experienced with God is
to be repeated in the contemporary experience."
--Fika J. van Rensburg, Professor of New Testament Studies, Deputy
Vice-Chancellor, North-West University, South Africa
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