A LIBRARIAN’S ORIENTATION
What this book explores
Pentecostal biblical hermeneutics proposing Spirit-shaped, participatory engagement with Scripture as sacred, dangerous, and mysterious.
EDITORIAL NOTE
Why it’s in the Library
It broadens biblical interpretation beyond information transfer and solitary analysis without abandoning disciplined reading. The book gives travelers a tradition-rooted example of Scripture encountered as participatory and formational.
Good starting place if…
You want a Pentecostal approach to Scripture that takes the Spirit, community, imagination, testimony, emotion, and lived transformation seriously in the act of reading.
Know before you begin…
Johns offers a constructive theological hermeneutic from within Pentecostal tradition, not a neutral method or introductory Bible guide. Readers from other traditions may question how spiritual experience and communal discernment constrain one another.