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exegesis

[ek-si-jee-sis] / ˌɛk sɪˈdʒi sɪs /
NOUN
interpretation
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Because it reprints a debate about “Patristic Exegesis in the Criticism of Medieval Literature.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 24, 2021

Selections of this home-brew theology have been published under the title The Exegesis of Philip K Dick, and they make for wild reading, equal measures bonkers and astonishing.

From The Guardian • Aug. 27, 2017

Exegesis, by Astro Teller: In this epistolary novel, a computer scientist exchanges emails with a newly awoken artificial intelligence as it works to discern its place in the world.

From Slate • Apr. 1, 2016

The "ubiquity," as the Exegesis terms the omnipresence of Christ's human nature, is condemned as Eutychian heresy.

From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by Bente, F. (Friedrich)

Exegesis and philosophy alike appeal to the intellect; but the one can be so aided by learning that the truth can be reached, while the other pushes the inquirer into an unfathomable sea of difficulties.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 04 Imperial Antiquity by Lord, John




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