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" Whose Pentecostalism? Which rationality? : "
Frestadius, Simo Kalevi

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Record Number	:	896340
Doc. No	:	TLets810584
Main Entry	:	University of Birmingham
Title & Author	:	Whose Pentecostalism? Which rationality? :\ Frestadius, Simo Kalevi
College	:	University of Birmingham
Date	:	2018
Degree	:	Thesis (Ph.D.)
student score	:	2018
Abstract	:	The aim of the thesis is to provide a tradition-specific 'Pentecostal rationality.' To do this it will first analyse and evaluate some of the main contemporary Pentecostal rationalities and' epistemologies (chapter 1), before proposing that Alasdair Macintyre's tradition-focused and historically-minded narrative approach is conducive in providing a more tradition-constituted Pentecostal rationality (chapter 2). Utilising the methodological insight of Macintyre, the thesis will then provide a philosophically informed historical narrative of a Pentecostal tradition, namely, the Elim Pentecostal Church, by exploring its underlying context and roots as a classical British Pentecostal movement (chapter 3), its emergence as a religious tradition (chapter 4), and its two major 'epistemological crises' (chapters 5 & 6). Based on this historical narration, the thesis will argue that Elim's tacit Pentecostal rationality is best defined as Pentecostal Biblical Pragmatism in a Foursquare Gospel framework. This form of rationality will then be developed vis-a-vis Elim's Pentecostal concept of truth (chapter 7), biblical hermeneutics (chapter 8), and pragmatic epistemic justification in dialogue with William Alston (chapter 9).
Subject	:	BL Religion; BX Christian Denominations
Added Entry	:	University of Birmingham