Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / L. William Oliverio -- Introduction / L. William Oliverio -- The Theological Roots of Early Pentecostal Theology / L. William Oliverio -- The Original Classical Pentecostal Hermeneutic / L. William Oliverio -- The Early Evangelical-Pentecostal Hermeneutic / L. William Oliverio -- The Contemporary Evangelical-Pentecostal Hermeneutic / L. William Oliverio -- The Contextual-Pentecostal Hermeneutic / L. William Oliverio -- The Ecumenical-Pentecostal Hermeneutic / L. William Oliverio -- Toward a Hermeneutical Realism for Pentecostal Theological Hermeneutics / L. William Oliverio -- Bibliography / L. William Oliverio -- Index / L. William Oliverio.

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In Theological Hermeneutics in the Classical Pentecostal Tradition: A Typological Account , L. William Oliverio Jr. accounts for the development of Classical Pentecostal theology, as theological hermeneutics, through four types: the original Classical Pentecostal hermeneutic, the Evangelical-Pentecostal hermeneutic, the contextual-Pentecostal hermeneutic, and the ecumenical-Pentecostal hermeneutic. Oliverio gives special attention to key figures in shaping Pentecostal theology and the underlying philosophical assumptions which informed their theological interpretations of reality. The text concludes with a philosophical basis for future Pentecostal theological hermeneutics within the contours of a hermeneutical realism that affirms both the hermeneutical nature of all theology and the implicit affirmation of realism within theological accounts.