{"id":22589,"date":"2017-12-21T08:52:43","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T08:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/sps-at-sbl-2017\/"},"modified":"2017-12-21T08:52:43","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T08:52:43","slug":"sps-at-sbl-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/sps-at-sbl-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"SPS at SBL 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rick Wadholm Jr. gives a short review of the 2017 sessions of the Society for Pentecostal Studies during the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I was privileged to attend three of the Society for Pentecostal Studies sessions during the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in Boston, Massachusetts on November 18-20, 2017. The three sessions were excellent examples of ways that Pentecostal scholarship continues to advance Pentecostal concerns and to engage the wider scholarly community as such. The sessions were all engaging and well attended (with the rooms either filled to capacity or very nearly). The attendees were not only Pentecostal scholars, but also those who had interest in the paper presentations and themselves engaged (sometimes for a first time) with the Pentecostal\/Renewalist scholars presenting. SPS provides a wonderful opportunity for Pentecostal scholars and scholars of Pentecostalism\/s to participate in conversations within the academy and to further research in a multitude of avenues (as evidenced by the presentations laid out all too briefly below).<\/p>\n

Pentecostal scholarship continues to advance Pentecostal concerns and to engage the wider scholarly community.<\/em><\/strong><\/div>The first session (Saturday, November 18) was entitled \u201cPentecostal Readings in the Hebrew Bible\u201d and was presided over by Van Johnson. David Hymes presented a paper entitled \u201cReception History of the Book of Numbers within the Early Pentecostal Tradition.\u201d This paper offered a sketch of early Pentecostal interpretation of the Book of Numbers describing some of the \u201cthematic concerns\u201d and \u201chermeneutical methods that were used.\u201d Hymes is forwarding the work on Numbers among Pentecostals (where he is currently writing a commentary) through such a project. He reminded those present of the many ways that Numbers deserves a better hearing and appropriation with the Pentecostal tradition. The second paper was presented by Meghan Musy and entitled \u201cA Pentecostal Reading of Psalm 28: Praying Through and Being Heard\u201d Meghan Musy offers a \u201clyric poetic approach\u201d to her reading of Psalm 28 as a way to hear the many voices of the Psalm. This counters the way this psalm (among others) has been forced into various genre categories that do not allow the full spectrum of voices to be heard equally. The redactive and form critical approaches offer another text that is not nearly as conducive to hearing this text in all of its variegated voices without muting some or elevating others. She offers that her \u201clyric poetic approach, informed by Pentecostal experience and perspective, hears the desperate plea coupled with praise\u201d allows for the prayers, praise and pleas to move to testimony in a manner similar to Pentecostal appropriations of \u201cpraying through.\u201d The final paper of this session was given by Lee Roy Martin on \u201cPsalm 150 and Pentecostal Spirituality.\u201d Lee Roy Martin<\/a> offers a Pentecostal hearing of Psalm 150 via its affective dimensions and through early Pentecostal hearings of this text. He proposes the many ways this text integrates \u201corthodoxy, orthopraxy, and orthopathy\u201d for Pentecostal expressions of worship.<\/p>\n

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From left to right: Van Johnson; David Hymes; Meghan Musy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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From left to right: Lee Roy Martin<\/a>; Robby Waddell; Hannah Mather.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Harvey Cox panel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The second session (Sunday, November 19) I attended was entitled \u201cA Conversation with Harvey Cox on Pentecostalism, Markets, Scripture, and the Future of Faith\u201d (sadly Harvey Cox<\/a> was unable to make it to SBL due to poor health). Robby Waddell<\/a> led this lively session well as four panelists responded to various works of Cox. David Daniels<\/a> offered a hopeful reading of Pentecostalism in light of Cox\u2019s work (particularly Fire from Heaven<\/em><\/a>). He spoke to ways in which the future remains bright for Pentecostals if we will heed to our founding vision of being a movement of the poor and marginal in society. Cheryl Bridges Johns<\/a> followed with an engagement of Cox\u2019s work on markets (specifically mentioning his The Market as God<\/em><\/a>). Overall the sense of her assessment of where Pentecostals are at currently is not as positive. Rickie Moore then presented on the subject of Scripture with specific reference to Cox\u2019s How to Read the Bible<\/em><\/a>. His appraisal was critically welcoming as a positive contribution to a general readership on the Bible. Frank Macchia<\/a> offered the final presentation on Cox\u2019s The Future of Faith<\/em><\/a> with a number of reflections on the ideas of orthodoxy within the historic streams of the Church. This was followed by a lively question and answer time wherein vigorous discussion centered around the ways in which Pentecostalism\/s future is brighter or dimmer depending upon the various outlooks of contextualization in relation to the broader Church and world.<\/p>\n

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Chris Green<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The third session (Monday, November 20) I attended was led by Melissa Archer<\/a> on \u201cPentecostal Reflections on Text and Method in the New Testament.\u201d Chris Green opened the session with \u201cThe Present Tense of Calvary: Trinity, Time, and Sacrament.\u201d His paper was engaging as always offering a close reading of texts from Hebrews in Trinitarian theological perspective with the idea of \u2018time\u2019 as reorienting. (Not surprisingly) he offered some intersections with Churchly participation in the sacraments as participatorily demonstrating this Trinitarian conception of \u2018time\u2019. Hannah Mather followed with \u201cSpirit Hermeneutics: Avenues for Further Research.\u201d Following a survey of Pentecostal hermeneutics she offers that a more open form of hermeneutic that enters into the wider forays of ecumenical dialogue is an avenue that seems most fruitful for further engagement. Mark Cartledge<\/a> concluded the session with his paper: \u201cAnointed to Proclaim Good News to the Poor (Luke 4.14-30): Towards a Renewal Public Theology.\u201d One area of particular interest that Cartledge raised was the ways in which the Good News (including healing) offers economic advantage to the poor as an underdeveloped notion in public theology.<\/p>\n

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Mark Cartledge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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