hermeneutic

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In his book The hermeneutic of hope, he recalled how he had fought against a view prevalent among many faithful at the time that "we are born to suffer".

From BBC • Oct. 23, 2024

The book became a manifesto for evangelical feminism, using a hermeneutic analysis of the Bible, interpreting the text by noting the context in which it was written and extrapolating its tenets to modern life.

From New York Times • Jan. 30, 2024

We may distinguish, broadly, between three main approaches to the history of philosophy—the presentist approach, the contextualist approach, and the hermeneutic approach.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

At this point in the book, this looks less like a hermeneutic move than like an expected reality.

From The New Yorker • May 13, 2019

These were partly invented by Philo himself, partly traditional,—the Haggadic rules of exposition and the hermeneutic principles of the Stoics having already at an earlier period been united in Alexandria.

From History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil