hermeneutics
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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
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
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.
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The dogmatic has been alluded to above.685.The system is called variously, in works of Hermeneutics, συγκατάβασις, condescensio, demissio, obsequium.
From History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion by Farrar, Adam Storey