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hermeneutics

[hur-muh-noo-tiks, -nyoo-] / ˌhɜr məˈnu tɪks, -ˈnyu- /


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Hermeneutics is of great importance to this chapter as it deals with the possibilities of seeing a thing from not just one perspective but several.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

Hermeneutics rejects both the absolute power of rational thought propagated by Descartes and the empiricism promoted by other Enlightenment thinkers.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

Hermeneutics took up the concerns of historicity when it engaged the question of whether the construction of a text could possibly reveal more about the meaning than the author intended.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

At this, the Rev. Mr. Logos is borne away by the laity to edit a book of his sermons entitled Through Exegesis and Hermeneutics We Arrive at Kerygma.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hermeneutics is, therefore, the science of interpretation; Exegesis, the application of this science to the word of God.

From Companion to the Bible by Barrows, E. P. (Elijah Porter)



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