“Interpretation and Identity.” RE Today, 42.2 (2025): 44-45.
A piece for RE Today, the magazine for the Religious Education community. This article highlights the importance of exploring a subject on its own terms, and the difficulties that this presents.
(RE Today is available here)
Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, volume 23, s.v. “Pentecost – Reformation Era.” Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024.
An article for the Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR), which is published by De Gruyter. This entry focuses on the understanding of Pentecost during the Reformation Era.
(EBR is available here)
“Hermeneutics and Humility.” The Gateway (2023): 42-44.
This article, which appeared in Battle Abbey School’s academic journal, advocates maintaining a conscious humility throughout our educational endeavours. It takes inspiration from Anthony Thiselton, who passed away in 2023, and draws upon the work of Paul Ricoeur, whose work on hermeneutics has fuelled my own theological research.
(Read an online version here)
Pentecostal Imagination and the Retrieval of Identity. Oregon: Pickwick Publications, 2023.
This book explores the possibility of a historiography which stems from deep theological commitments. The particular case of Pentecostalism presents some fascinating conundrums, which lead the reader on a journey into the philosophy of the imagination, through a hermeneutics of experience, and towards a pneumatology of history.
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“Martin Luther and the Pentecostal Spirit.” St. Mark’s Review, 241 (2017): 47-59.
This journal article is the revised version of a paper presented at The Protestant Spirit Conference at St. John’s College, University of Oxford in September 2015. It seeks to answer whether modern-day Pentecostals should be identified more with the schwarmeri (‘enthusiasts’ of Luther’s time), or with Luther himself.
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“Word(s) of God: The Hermeneutical Problem in Pentecostal Perspective.” Honours diss., Charles Sturt University, 2013.
The dissertation explores interpretive methodology which is consciously Spirit-led, with particular reference to the Pentecostal approach. By exploring the problems which such a subjective approach to interpretation creates, the possibility for a more communally-accountable schema is advanced.
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“Palestinian Contextual Theology: A Pentecostal Prospect?” Australasian Pentecostal Studies, 15 (2012): 126-150.
This paper asks how Pentecostal theology should respond to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. After surveying the reality of the ongoing crises in the Holy Land, the socially-responsible nature of a coherent Pentecostal interpretation is explored.
(Read an online version here)
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