Although both Pentecostalism and postcolonial thought seem to stand poles apart, they have a remarkable amount in common. Early Pentecostal revivals largely sprang from ‘subaltern groups’, people groups marginalized by colonial power and dominant groups. Bringing together Pentecostalism and postcolonial thought is a complex task, but one that promises to yield positive results. Exploring the text through the twin lenses of postcolonial thought and the distinctive Pentecostal emphasis on pneumatology results in a fresh hermeneutical perspective: that the Holy Spirit might be understood as a postcolonial agent of change that empowers those who have experienced the baptism of the Holy Spirit to resist dominant structures of oppression. The New Testament text can therefore be understood as a ‘hidden transcript’, a disguised work of resistance composed by subaltern groups against dominance and oppression. This article therefore seeks to explore the theoretical underpinnings of a ‘Pentecostal, postcolonial reading’ of the New Testament.

虽然五旬节主义和后殖民思想似乎截然不同，但它们有很多共同点。五旬节早期的复兴主要来自“次等群体”，即被殖民势力和优势群体边缘化的人民群体。五旬节主义和后殖民思想的融合是一项复杂的任务，但有望产生积极的结果。通过后殖民思想的双镜头和五旬节时期对气动学的独特强调来探索文本，从而获得了崭新的解释学视角：圣灵可能被理解为变革的后殖民主体，赋予了经历过圣灵洗礼的人们以力量抵抗压迫的主导结构。因此，新约文字可以理解为“隐藏的笔录”，由下属组织抵抗统治和压迫而构成的变相抵抗工作。因此，本文旨在探讨新约“五旬节后殖民读物”的理论基础。