What is it about?
This articles gives an overview of how both poor and wealthy Pentecostal Christians read the Bible - and how the socioeconomic location of each influence their interpretations.
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Why is it important?
Hermeneutics in general and Biblical interpretation in particular have often neglected the influence of socioeconomic status and how it influences biblical interpretation. Western scholarship has often downplayed it and Latin American liberation theologians have overplayed it.
Perspectives
Socioeconomic status does influence biblical interpretation though not always in a way one would imagine.
Esa Autero
South Florida Bible College & Theological Seminary
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This page is a summary of: Blessed Are the Prosperous but Woe to the Weak, January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1057/9781137550606_12.
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