Kerygmatic Hermeneutics: Formulating a Pentecostal-Charismatic Practice of Reading Scripture in the Spirit in Community - Hardcover

by Swee Sum Lam (Author), Mike Higton (Foreword by)

Kerygmatic Hermeneutics takes a reader at once into a concrete apprehension of God in his scriptural truth through flowing in the Spirit. With the Spirit working with Scripture, a reader navigates in a to-ing and fro-ing between the general claims of God and the patterns of his actions in the world, and the embodiment of these general claims in the concrete particularity of contemporary living. This to-ing and fro-ing shapes an embodied witness to the world. In this account, an interpretation of scriptural truth is incomplete until Christ is proclaimed in the power of the Spirit to bring life. This brings the world into an encounter with God. Kerygmatic Hermeneutics is an account of how one may make theology in the Pentecostal-charismatic tradition. This constructive theological account also yields a practice of interpretation of Scripture in a community of faith. This formulation of kerygmatic theology and its hermeneutical practice opens theology to empirical enquiry and spiritual discernment in a post-Christian western world. This account is also existentially relevant for the global south and east, especially where readers find themselves having to speak apologetically into diverse religious and spiritual practices in daily encounters.

Author Biography

Swee Sum Lam, PhD (Finance), PhD (Theology), is a theologian and is appointed to the board of the Asian Pastoral Institute, Singapore. She was first trained as a chartered financial analyst and chartered accountant, and a professor of finance at the National University of Singapore. Swee Sum's research interests lie in theological interpretation and Pentecostal-charismatic theology, and she works in the intersection of theology and social sciences, markets, and business.