hermeneutics

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In fact, hermeneutics challenges the basic idea of things having one absolute meaning.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

I found that when I looked in bibliographies, I was running across words like "phenomenology" and "hermeneutics" and things I didn't quite understand why they were there.

From Salon • Dec. 13, 2021

Sharpton was at the lectern letting his words roar and flow, telling stories that circled back on each other in the familiar hermeneutics of black preachers.

From Washington Post • Jun. 4, 2020

Interpreting Jacqueline’s messages often required a sophisticated hermeneutics: “You are not too cold or buggy at nights? I have screams. Also, I did not mention before I am a poet.”

From The New Yorker • Apr. 22, 2019

It is chiefly in hermeneutics that Ernesti has any claim to eminence as a theologian.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various