Hermeneutical

The explanation that Jesus gives is not The Explanation for All Ages; it is what we could call a hermeneutical pattern, or an interpretative model. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For the most part these problems are hermeneutical, that is, the problems are grounded in the various ways that each discipline understands its particular work as the interpretation of its respective "data" (observation for science, revelation for theology, reason for philosophy; of course, reason is essential for all three). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Both the New Testament course and a 20th Century British poetry seminar, which I'm also auditing (and Auden-ing), have employed the same academic buzzword: "hermeneutical," which loosely defined means the interpretation of texts. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I'll just add one more brief comment for the historical record: I ought to give credit to Larry for his correct judgment at the time that the "hermeneutical" turn that Don and many of us took in the late 80s was more of a mistake than a benefit to Austrian economics. ❋ Unknown (2007)

This will inevitably require some deep "hermeneutical" work (theological and historical) that I think can be "saving" (inverting the negativity of Philocrites' early charge)...in the sense that it will be part of moving us beyond a contemporary UU myopia that is not only "presentist" but also geographic. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Does anyone come to Scripture without some kind of hermeneutical center? ❋ Unknown (2009)

You think sola scriptura offers up hermeneutical difficulties?! ❋ Unknown (2009)

We have a long history of interpreting our Torah, redefining its meaning, and using very advanced and creative hermeneutical tools to either alter, or in some cases, downright change, what the original meaning seems to have been. ❋ Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater (2011)

"God of Liberty" doesn't follow the straightforward chronological pattern of classical history texts, nor does it adhere to clear thematic groupings or progression; Kidd's history of ideas is a hermeneutical, sometimes repetitious loop-de-loop, along the way connecting religious themes to the major figures and events of the Revolution and beyond, from Bunker Hill to Jefferson's presidency. ❋ Anil Mundra (2011)

As part of that consideration, he again raised the matter of the correct (and incorrect) hermeneutical interpretation of the Second Vatican Council. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He was busy untangling the hermeneutical threads in the horseflies and wasps of Canto Three. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the hermeneutical traditions that emerge in Jewish history, two dominant strains may be identified. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In his seminal 1988 book Kabbalah: New Perspectives, which has served to redefine the way the Jewish mystical tradition has been read, Idel presents us with a startling text from the martyred messianic pretender Solomon Molcho which provides an excellent opportunity to see the way in which Jewish occultism views the hermeneutical process: ❋ Unknown (2010)

Discourse of any kind, warrants a Cosmic Book, permitting a common situational reference, as well as a ketab [alphabetical] system by which to apprehend the code, together with a mikhtab [hermeneutical] system of interpretation. ❋ Unknown (2010)

All of a sudden, Biblical inerrancy is no longer a hermeneutical proposition; it is necessary for the dearest of dreams to be true. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The grammatical work of [Rabbi] Jonah extended, [moreover], to the domain of rhetoric and biblical hermeneutics, and his [lexicon] contains many exegetical excursuses. He was appointed professor of Oriental languages and hermeneutics in the University of Chicago. ❋ Psudoscholar (2015)

"[Deistological hermeneutics] might be really useful for [theological deistology], mainly to finally find out if gods, spiritual beings and materialized extraphysical life forms really were living among humans in the past or not, but it might take a bit of time until [deistology] be completely developed to help to find this out." ❋ Full Monteirism (2021)

I have [lived] a happy life for a long time without [knowing] what "[hermeneutics]" is, and you can, too. ❋ Mister.smith (2016)