Augustine and Pentecostals: Building a Hermeneutical Bridge between Past and Present Experience in the Psalms

This essay interacts with Augustine’s figurative interpretation of Ps 142 and a pentecostal priority to experience God in ways analogous to experience found within the narratives of Scripture. Contending that the Psalms are both historical and prophecy-fulfilled-in-Christ, Augustine interprets Ps 14...

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Main Author: Geerlof, Derek M. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2015
In: Pneuma
Year: 2015, Volume: 37, Issue: 2, Pages: 262-280
IxTheo Classification:CB Christian life; spirituality
HB Old Testament
KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity
KDG Free church
VB Hermeneutics; Philosophy
Further subjects:B Augustine
B Enarrationes in Psalmos
B spiritual interpretation
B Analogy
B Pentecostal
B Hermeneutics
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Summary:This essay interacts with Augustine’s figurative interpretation of Ps 142 and a pentecostal priority to experience God in ways analogous to experience found within the narratives of Scripture. Contending that the Psalms are both historical and prophecy-fulfilled-in-Christ, Augustine interprets Ps 142 within the dual histories of David and Christ. This grounds his figurative interpretation firmly within scriptural narratives while providing a means of viewing the psalm as the prayerful expression of Christ’s own experience. His theology of the totus Christus then unites the experiences of the church and Christ, ensuring that Christian interpretation of an Old Testament experience does not bypass Christ. The telos of interpretation does not reside in the past, but in the present transformation and encounter of the church with the triune God.
ISSN:1570-0747
Contains:Enthalten in: Pneuma
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15700747-03702017