Early Pentecostalism was mostly a pacifist movement that sees itself as a community that resolves conflicts and disputes through confrontation, forgiveness, and reconciliation in a nonviolent manner. Since the 1940s, this important emphasis was lost due to the influence of the evangelicals with whom the Pentecostals allied. The hypothesis of the paper is that it was due to evangelical influence on their hermeneutics that Pentecostals lost their pacifist stance. To regain the emphasis, Pentecostals need to realign their hermeneutics with its early practice. A hermeneutical pacifist emphasis suitable for the inherently violent South African society is described in order to ground a Pentecostal homiletics of non-resistance. Such a homiletics will fearlessly address the issue of violence against women, combining biblical texts that are exegeted, preferably by women, with a hermeneutic of suspicion to expose male interest in justifying rape and violence and supported by women’s testimonies of their sexual harassment.

早期的五旬节主义主要是和平主义运动，它把自己看作是一个以非暴力方式通过对抗，宽恕和和解解决冲突和争端的社区。自1940年代以来，由于五旬节派结盟的福音派人士的影响，这一重要重点被遗忘了。该论文的假设是，由于福音派对其诠释学的影响，五旬节派失去了和平主义立场。为了重新强调这一点，五旬节派需要重新诠释其早期实践。描述了一种适用于固有暴力南非社会的诠释主义和平主义者，以期建立五旬节式的非抵抗同性恋。这样的胡言乱语将无所畏惧地解决暴力侵害妇女的问题，结合已有的圣经文字，