Grieving, Brooding, and Transforming
The Spirit, the Bible, and Gender
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Cheryl Bridges Johns argues that hermeneutics alone cannot save us from inadequate and harmful ways of reading Scripture. She calls for a return to the basic questions regarding the nature of the subjecthood and otherness of the Bible. She offers a view of the Bible as living subject whose existence is grounded in the economic life of God. As such, the Bible serves as a sanctified, Spirit-filled vessel in service of restoring creation. A Spirit-filled feminist approach to the Bible as Spirit-Word includes the processes of grieving, brooding, and transformation. First, the reader moves through a hermeneutics of suspicion, through a hermeneutics of remembrance into a deeper, darker, and more profound place. The grieving Spirit of Shekinah is found here. However, a Spirit-filled feminist hermeneutic does not abandon women to grief. Rather, it moves us into the purposes of God toward justice and the healing of creation. The movement from grief to transformation often goes the way of ‘brooding’ over the brokenness and gestating newness. The final movement of Spirit-filled feminist hermeneutics is the movement of transformation. The Bible performed carries with it the power to transform and to bring about the reconstruction of life.
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See Gerald Sheppard, ‘Pentecostals and the Hermeneutics of Dispensationalism: The Anatomy of an Uneasy Relationship’, Pneuma 6.2 (1984), pp. 5–33.
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Cheryl Bridges Johns, ‘The Adolescence of Pentecostalism: In Search of a Legitimate Sectarian Identity’, Pneuma 17.1 (Spring, 1995), pp. 3–17.
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Lee Roy Martin (ed.), Pentecostal Hermeneutics: A Reader (Leiden: Brill, 2013), pp. 285–90.
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Joel Green, Seized by the Truth: Reading the Bible as Scripture (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2007), p. 18.
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Walter Brueggemann, The Word That Redescribes the World: The Bible and Discipleship (Minneapolis: Augsburg Press, 2006), p. 6.
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John Webster, Holy Scripture: A Dogmatic Sketch (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), p. 8.
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Catherine Mowry LaCugna, God For Us: The Trinity and the Christian Life (San Francisco: Harper, 1991), p. 22.
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Telford Work, Living and Active: Scripture in the Economy of Salvation (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001), p. 26.
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Richard Rohr, Things Hidden: Scripture as Spirituality (Cincinnati: St Anthony Messenger Press, 2008), p. 62.
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See B.F. Westcott, A General Survey of the History of the Canon of the New Testament (Cambridge: Macmillan, 1881), p. xliv.
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Nickolai Berdyaev, Slavery and Freedom (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1944).
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See F.X. Durrwell, ‘The Holy Spirit of God: An Essay’, in Biblical Theology (trans. Sr. Benedict Davies; (London: Geoffrey Chapman, 1986).
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Grieving, Brooding, and Transforming
The Spirit, the Bible, and Gender
In: Journal of Pentecostal TheologySearch for other papers by Cheryl Bridges Johns in
Current site
Google Scholar
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Cheryl Bridges Johns argues that hermeneutics alone cannot save us from inadequate and harmful ways of reading Scripture. She calls for a return to the basic questions regarding the nature of the subjecthood and otherness of the Bible. She offers a view of the Bible as living subject whose existence is grounded in the economic life of God. As such, the Bible serves as a sanctified, Spirit-filled vessel in service of restoring creation. A Spirit-filled feminist approach to the Bible as Spirit-Word includes the processes of grieving, brooding, and transformation. First, the reader moves through a hermeneutics of suspicion, through a hermeneutics of remembrance into a deeper, darker, and more profound place. The grieving Spirit of Shekinah is found here. However, a Spirit-filled feminist hermeneutic does not abandon women to grief. Rather, it moves us into the purposes of God toward justice and the healing of creation. The movement from grief to transformation often goes the way of ‘brooding’ over the brokenness and gestating newness. The final movement of Spirit-filled feminist hermeneutics is the movement of transformation. The Bible performed carries with it the power to transform and to bring about the reconstruction of life.
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| Full Text Views | 145 | 9 | 2 |
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