How To Use Hermeneutic In A Sentence

He establishes that Evangelical theology ‘lacks a unitary hermeneutic’ of Catholicism.
The second type of human/technology relation is what he calls hermeneutic (p. 80). Phenomenological Approaches to Ethics and Information Technology
Newman's foray into Monophysitism, still operating from the hermeneutic established in his work on Arianism, helped to pave the way for his conversion.
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. Parables do not save
The blinkered tendency to derive all-encompassing, universal answers has dumbed down semantic questions, eclipsed interpretative discussion and blinded scholarship to the ways in which context could cook up hermeneutic content.

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There was consensus on the roles that social constructionism, narrative, and hermeneutics play in postmodern thought and their application to therapy.
They were harridans, engaged in a harangue of hermeneutics, harpooning his hyperbolic sense of hagiocracy, calling him a haggard hooligan hamming up a heedless hegemonic hullabaloo. Martin Marks: Bushenschadenfreude: Where has it all Gone?
More generally, the opening lines of the poem foreground the hermeneutic processes of reading and evaluation by which meaning will be constructed.
Another strength of the book is its attempt to synthesize homiletics, theology, and biblical hermeneutics.
Lesslie Newbigin underscores this need passionately: ‘the only hermeneutic of the gospel is a congregation of men and women who believe it and live by it.’
Scientists isolate variables to test; in hermeneutics the links between texts are all important.
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: The Torah, The Constitution, And The 4th Of July
But what motivates these shifts, if not a particular hermeneutic, a particular point of view or collection of views that presents itself within the overall tradition about Manasseh and/or creation?
A close link between phenomenology and hermeneutics has resulted in the interchangeable use of the terms; however, philosophical beliefs differ among phenomenologists and hermeneutic philosophers.
To learn about postmodernism is to immerse oneself in a new paradigm, one that emphasizes pluralism and local narratives, skepticism and re-examination, deconstructionism and hermeneutics.
Reading biblical texts intertextually with a hermeneutics of other deconstructs the familiar and conventional.
Moreover, the playing field has been changed in the radical postmodern hermeneutic by the denial of an objective text, and by deconstruction and the hermeneutics of suspicion.
The hermeneutic paradigm the Kantian narrative was designed to protect can best be put in terms of transcendentalism.
Does anyone come to Scripture without some kind of hermeneutical center? Dangerous idea
Marginal notations add to this volume's value by helping readers see the interpretive choices, hermeneutical assumptions, and contextual influences at play in each essay.
His degree theses were about contemporary hermeneutics and the hermeneutics of Matthew.
For Pynchon, the hieroglyph hints at, but ultimately frustrates, hermeneutic operations, leaving the interpreter faced with a social text whose key either has been irretrievably lost or never existed in the first place.
When this hermeneutic was applied consistently, the whole of Scripture became a vast panorama of interrelated events that pointed towards the final consummation of all things.
For Gopin, this hermeneutic dimension of religion is crucial.
Paul de Man, who introduced the deconstructionist theory of Jacques Derrida to American readers after the New Criticism had become a received orthodoxy, detected in the New Critics a "foreknowledge" of what he called, borrowing a phrase from the Swiss critic Georges Poulet, "hermeneutic circularity. The Decline and Fall of Literature
His subsequent interest in Shintoism and Buddhism lacks the mordancy and introspection (the "agenbite of inwit," as Joyce liked to put it) of his earlier hermeneutic investigations. The Immortal
Both postmodern hermeneutics and classical Jewish belief embody utmost significance in text and speech.
General readers wishing for fresh insight into the hermeneutical significance of the biblical canon are advised to look elsewhere.
Indeed, my hermeneutic principles, which insist that any notion of alterity is inevitably determined by reference to the subject who constructs it and thus by reference to our present, forbid me to imagine, let alone to lobby for, any such transcendental object of historical knowledge and desire. 'That Obscure Object of Historical Desire'
Over the next few days, prominent scholars of the African-American religious tradition from several different disciplines -- theologians, church historians, ethicists, professors of Hebrew bible, homiletics, hermeneutics and historians of religions -- those scholars will join in with sociologists, political analysts, local church pastors and denominational officials to examine the African-American religious experience and its historical, theological and political context. National Press Club Address
The hermeneutics used in the historicists' calculus of exploitation and oppression are less hermetic than those of new criticism and theory, but they are just as schematic.
Such a process must not rely exclusively on either personal experience or hermeneutical method but must become a wedding of the two.
The four essays do cohere around some basic shared presuppositions, stances, and hermeneutics.
History is not ontologically given but is linguistically and textually constructed, and it is therefore subject to the same textual and hermeneutic uncertainties as fiction.
The study of literature and history has of course taken many different forms as different ideas about the ontology of the text, hermeneutics, history, culture, and epistemology have waxed and waned.
A large number of people said that the real was the measurable, which could be a sign of realism, operationalism, or hermeneutical realism.
However, I am also convinced that my stricture about the hermeneutic circle is and must be self-referential.
He concludes that it does not fall under any of the commonly used rubrics - observational science, phenomenology, hermeneutics - which distinguish the intentional focus of other disciplines.
The last paragraph sums up a standard hermeneutic objection to behaviourism.
(Luke and Acts were somehow separated in the textual drift we call the canonical process), which simply does not do enough work in light of the differences in the reception histories of the two texts; such reasons are much harder to come by than is typically thought; (c) Scholars who persist in identifying modern reconstructed readings of Luke-Acts with ancient hermeneutical reading strategies have likely not grasped the way in which the NT authors, early Apologists or Church Fathers actually worked with scripture and have, therefore, distorted hermeneutically the historical worth of their reconstructions. Euangelion
Attempts at using allegedly relevant texts as moral guidelines today are subject to serious exegetical and hermeneutical constraints.
The so-called hermeneutic circle--to understand the whole, you have to grasp the parts, which changes your perception of the whole; to understand a part, you have to grasp the whole, which changes your perception of the part--was not a ceaseless flux. Enowning
A bright young man, his interest in intellectual pursuits was indulged by his father, and he moved first to Qazvin in 1000 AH/1591 and then to Isfahan in 1006 AH/1597, successive capitals of the Safavid empire, to pursue his study of philosophy, theology, the prophetic tradition, and Qur™anic hermeneutics and exegesis with the two pre-eminent teachers of his age, Mulla Sadra
Most of the chapters deal with hermeneutics, interpretation, or philosophy.
The dichotomy of discovery and establishment of law also has certain foundations in hermeneutic.
Let it be said, genuine Reformed interpretation has no affinity to the Barthian hermeneutic.
The Chinese notion of literary openness thus grew out of a disjunction between hermeneutic theory and exegetical practice.
James Packer's essay on hermeneutics predates Anthony Thiselton's efforts to increase hermeneutical awareness among evangelicals.
The ensuing race to the deadline is a pacy affair that alternates between the hapless Tamara's frequent recourse to her thesaurus S*nday, she reckons, is just the place to scatter words such as "chthonic" and "hermeneutic" and Tait's grim determination to keep her would-be profiler at bay, particularly from her rather murky private life. The Spoiler by Annalena McAfee – review
But when most UU ministers, seminarians, and theologically curious laypeople like me talk about a theological crisis in Unitarian Universalism, we aren't worried about hermeneutics, phenomenology, or the phases of concrescence. Philocrites: September 2006 Archives
Moreover, the social experiences of African Americans have provided the matrix for both the theological conception and the biblical hermeneutic.
In literary studies, this is a contrast between poetics and hermeneutics.
His proposal seeks to move beyond the classic model of simple direct prediction while at the same time rejecting a skeptical hermeneutic that is blind to possible messianic references on the part of OT seers.
He would have regarded it as terrible pose to place the book somewhere between the pataphysics of Alfred Jarry (the scientist of imaginary solutions) and the metaphysics of Martin Heidegger (the analyst of the hermeneutics of facticity). The Last Laugh
I once called these points hermeneutic windows - partly to counter the idea of music as purely self-sufficient and self-reflective, a windowless monad - and the term seems to have had some currency.
His gambit is simple: that hermeneutics connects interpretation to ethics.
Before that time, the Bible was generally read as a unified body of Scripture with its hermeneutical center in the Gospels.
In this reading of the Rabbinic tradition, the dialectical link between the literal meaning of scripture, in Hebrew the peshat, and the exegetical expansion of that literal meaning, derasha, is enabled by the dynamic process of hermeneutics as a rhetorical-literary and not a spiritual-existential process. David Shasha: Monolingualism, Scriptural Translation and the Problem of Western Civilization
But we also have the hermeneutical account of the everyday world of our own activities and individual things in our lifeworld, such as a workshop.
From the time of Blackstone, legal history remained the province of lawyers, whose labours of love bore more relation to the apologetic hermeneutics of Bible scholars than to ‘historical method’.
And that irony doubles when we recall the central place that medieval hermeneutics holds in Jameson's influential rendering of allegory in The Political Unconscious. Introduction
The middle sections include essays considering the hermeneutic significance, force, and limits of God-language.
John Frame : Increasingly difficult to determine whether a scholar's hermeneutics is orthodox.
But rather than modify those claims, he devotes a great deal of hermeneutic ingenuity to disguising their shortcomings, at times actively reconfiguring his sources to suit the case he defends.
It is a so-called hermeneutic insight and every new such insight is supported by our past observational experience. The Idea of Design in Nature: Science or Phenomenology? By Jakob Wolf
Johnson is committed to a hermeneutic in which Scripture, while read critically, is given free rein to address God's people with the force that it properly bears as God's word.
He was busy untangling the hermeneutical threads in the horseflies and wasps of Canto Three. Why Do You Hoard? Why Do You Squander?
The digression is far too short and undeveloped to plausibly stand on its own as an apocalypse without such an intertextual hermeneutical link.
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. Philocrites: The UU gospel according to Fausto.
With a little advance preparation, I believe an hour and 15 minutes is all we need to acquire a faculty second to none in the hermeneutics of law, legal esoterics, and other arts of absolutely no use to any client, real or imagined. Balkinization
The hermeneutic of continuity: Good King Wenceslaus skip to main Good King Wenceslaus
Additionally, he wrote extensively on aesthetics, hermeneutics, and the philosophy of language.
Scholem tells us that Benjamin always had ‘a pronounced sense of the emblematical,’ which is perhaps why he appeals to us today, absorbed as we are in the hermeneutics of signs.
His subsequent interest in Shintoism and Buddhism lacks the mordancy and introspection (the "agenbite of inwit," as Joyce liked to put it) of his earlier hermeneutic investigations. The Immortal
Naturalistic and hermeneutic approaches see the relationship of the subject and object of inquiry as forcing the social scientist to take either the third-person or first-person perspective.
Like the detective novel, the romance abides by a hermeneutic code, in which the outcome is always assured.
In literary studies, this is a contrast between poetics and hermeneutics.
Of seminal importance for so-called political readings of Romanticism, as well as for the recent, intense debate over new hermeneutic developments in musicology (to name only two discourses), the question may also be formulated thus: is the telos of aesthetic pleasure that of its critical articulation, its redemption by some kind of discursive intelligence? [ The Voice of Critique: Aesthetic Cognition After Kant,
Hooker displays an acute awareness that the hermeneutical task is not simply the intellectual assent to truth.
The hermeneutic of continuity recently published an update of my FARE 2008/9 professional work which as you are aware has now reached a critical legal juncture here in London : vesper has left a new comment on the post "Mass at St Peter's". Rinunce e nomine
What the novel effects in regard to the Gothic, to parody, and to Catherine's readerly education is a hermeneutic of neither sameness nor difference, but one of ‘not unlike.’
His subsequent interest in Shintoism and Buddhism lacks the mordancy and introspection (the "agenbite of inwit," as Joyce liked to put it) of his earlier hermeneutic investigations. The Immortal
Because they were very inconsistent, they adopted a new hermeneutic.
Hermeneutics is not only philosophy also practical philosophy.
It is a hermeneutic which cannot operate in isolation from the community of reason, and this, I believe, marks an important point of departure from Calvin and the Puritan party in England.
By aiming to recover a genealogy of such radical epistemology, Herbert's project in effect aims to undergird a hermeneutically suspicious project via unsuspicious historicism.
Can we continue to argue for a collectivist hermeneutic when eliciting biblical theology?
Second, I will show how Newman's foray into Monophysitism, still operating from the hermeneutic established in his work on Arianism, helped to pave the way for his conversion.
Instead of finding an Aristotelean ‘middle,’ Hooker's hermeneutic stands in opposition to both the Puritan movement and the assumptions that eventually led to Western secularism.
To take them seriously is to wrestle with their complexities, to bring to them both a hermeneutic of suspicion and a hermeneutic of trust.
While not every page of Scripture can be said to focus specifically on such a theocentric or monotheizing hermeneutic, it might be appropriate to read the exceptions in light of the greater whole.
As a critical discourse, hermeneutics has involved a linguistic paradigm.
In Literary Theory and the Claims of History, Satya Mohanty posits a hermeneutics of affirmation in contrast to Jacques Derrida's hermeneutics of negation.
Each narrative feeds on a construct intricately allied to a vision of a transgressive, female, sexual body through which a masculine, heteronormative hermeneutic might be applied.
Consequently it considers healing as a hermeneutic process whose goal is to interpret that reality.
I am interested in hermeneutic theory, particularly as developed by philosophers such as Hans Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur, with an emphasis in my recent work on how questions of interepretation intersect with questions of ethics. Hermeneutics for Sophomores
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). Domine, da mihi hanc aquam!
Marxism is Jameson's privileged hermeneutic by virtue of its breadth and its resolute exteriority to postmodernism.
Analytical psychology can make no claim, therefore, to be an experimental science, any more than psychoanalysis: it is best classified as a branch of hermeneutics - the art of interpretation in the service of meaning.
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. Joe Salerno on The Austrian Movement - The Austrian Economists
Nor have we tried to decide whether rules and reasons can only be considered in a hermeneutic framework incompatible with causal explanation.
James Packer's essay on hermeneutics predates Anthony Thiselton's efforts to increase hermeneutical awareness among evangelicals.
There is this word hermeneutic, which I have used on more than one occasion used in this sentence. Stones Cry Out
The relationship between reading, understanding and the construction of consciousness has been extensively studied in philology and in hermeneutic and phenomenological philosophy, which Manguel does not discuss.
You think sola scriptura offers up hermeneutical difficulties?! "Protestantism is dangerous. ..."
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. Walter Shapiro: Leaving Home Without It
The question, then, is not whether hermeneutics will adopt a theological framework, but what kind it will adopt.
The other basic hermeneutical aspect that he fails to understand is anthropomorphism and anthropopathism, whereby God represents Himself as having human emotions or various physical characteristics by analogy, so He could be understood. Biblical Evidence for Catholicism
One does not need to acquire hermeneutical skills to appreciate the significance and personal challenge presented by the great truths of salvation.
The typology hermeneutic ties us into the concept of an ongoing reformation within the church.
No theologian in the United States did more, though generally uncredited, to bring the biblical view of the ‘powers’ back onto the map of hermeneutics and theological ethics.
Becoming America suggests that Butler has little sympathy with that hermeneutic view.
Last season hermeneutic of continuity published an update of my FARE 2008/9 professional work which as has now reached a critical legal juncture here in London : vesper has left a new comment on the post "Mass at St Peter's". Fr Edward Houghton RIP
These are the key areas where the Chinese and Western concerns with hermeneutic openness converge.
Completing this hermeneutic circle, these articles, having taken their conception of the Irish American immigrant from dialect columns and books, contribute to a further castigation of the Irish American as stereotype.
It does not require great skills in biblical theology and hermeneutics and exegesis to understand God's message concerning the depth, extent, and significance of the Flood.
Ward's reason is that sufficiency ‘is a good analytical tool for setting the classical doctrine of Scripture in dialogue with contemporary hermeneutics and literary theory.’
This approach to history may be described as hermeneutic; but it is focused on interpretation of large historical features rather than the interpretation of individual meanings and actions. Philosophy of History
Gadamer's hermeneutic theory of text interpretation is called dialectical hermeneutics, which treats the interpretation of text as a dialogue or fusion of horizons between the interpreter and text.
Meanwhile, what of his implied connection between the critical biblical scholarship of authorially-oriented hermeneutics and the hegemonic mediation of the Bible by the medieval Catholic church?
The hermeneutic of continuity recently published an update of my professional work which has now reached a critical legal juncture here in London : vesper has left a new comment on the post "Mass at St Peter's". "... this blog is now a Roman Catholic blog..."
Meese's stated hermeneutic principles are based in the text and in the historic record.
However insightful A. H. J. Gunneweg's thesis might be, it betrays the central difficulty of proposing a biblical hermeneutic that includes the subject matter of the Old Testament.
Unfortunately, I will need to pass over much of Newman's history; for my purpose his hermeneutic is more important than his recapitulation of the Nicene controversy.
Interpreting a poem as a symptom or instance of features of the lyric, for example, might be unsatisfactory hermeneutics but a useful contribution to poetics.
Critical of unnecessary obscurity and jargon of modernist discourse, post-modernism has created a paralleled obscurity of hermeneutics, deconstruction and textual nihilism.
One does not need to acquire hermeneutical skills to appreciate the significance and personal challenge presented by the great truths of salvation.
The path that, in answer to his prayer, God had instantly shown Augustine - the path leading from the garden to that verse - could only be seen with hermeneutic eyes.
The dominant paradigm today for textual hermeneutics is that interpretation of any work involves merging the horizons of the contemporary reader's world with the world projected by the text.
Conversely, to give any kind of credibility to his misinterpretation because it claims to be an interpretation is to go a long way toward validating the hermeneutic which Williams employs.
He was busy untangling the hermeneutical threads in the horseflies and wasps of Canto Three. Why Do You Hoard? Why Do You Squander?
Philosophical conversation should not be a search for commensuration, it should be, rather, hermeneutical. Hermeneutics
Richard Taruskin: Stravinsky and the Russian traditions: a biography of the works through Mavra (Oxford, 1996); idem: Defining Russia musically: historical and hermeneutical essays (Princeton, 1997).
Though we are accustomed to the idea that readers need to be governed by the right hermeneutic, in fact theory and method mean next to nothing in reading.
Hermeneutically, the contemporary goal is to peel away layers of interpretive enculturation to retrieve and reappropriate the original experience.
As we all know, the development of hermeneutics enlarges the scopes of literary translation study.
To understand the Bible, we have to work through volumes of literary criticism and hermeneutical theory.
When the Other is homosexual, the notion of hermeneutic encounter drops from the scene. Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:
In his last period Royce embraced what may be called a hermeneutic epistemology. Josiah Royce
A large number of people said that the real was the measurable, which could be a sign of realism, operationalism, or hermeneutical realism.
The rules of the social world are, from a hermeneutic point of view, importantly different from causal laws.
Hermeneutical realism is not a constructivism because the objects that we perceive to be real exhibit invariances that are not under our control.
The dichotomy of discovery and establishment of law also has certain foundations in hermeneutic.
Those uninterpretable tablets, those tablets for which no hermeneutic was necessary, were shattered.
Byrd only explains williams's response to Puritan hermeneutics.
Sha's criticism of the fetishization of alterity is a familiar theme in the history of hermeneutics; Paul Ricoeur, for example, describes the "illusion ... that puts an end to our collusion with the past and creates a situation comparable to the objectivity of the natural sciences, on the grounds that a loss of familiarity is a break with the contingent" (74). Romantic Loves: A Response to _Historicizing Romantic Sexuality_
Understanding as involving a fusion of horizons requires the application of what is to be understood to the interpreter's hermeneutic situation.
The primacy of the practical is what links Aristotle, American pragmatism, Heidegger's hermeneutic phenomenology and environmental philosophy.
The Conjure-Man Dies, generically and esoterically, presents demanding self-referential problems for the writer and the reader of such hermeneutic texts.
Part of the deal with hermeneutics, by the way, is that texts are not homogenous.
Among the many achievements of the pontificate of John Paul II, some would say the most important achievement, was to secure the hermeneutic for the interpretation of that great council.
To the extent that we suggest and infer meaning in countless non-verbal modes of expression, a hermeneutics that takes verbal communication as the definitive case of evoking and apprehending meaning inappropriately generalizes from the most formalized and unusual sphere of meaning-making to the more common and less specific spheres. AKMA’s Random Thoughts
A gay man, he was known for his investigative work, delving into hermeneutics and literature, as well as giving seminars at Collège de France.
Such a process must not rely exclusively on either personal experience or hermeneutical method but must become a wedding of the two.
The primacy of the practical is what links American pragmatism and Heidegger's hermeneutic phenomenology.
Their hermeneutic for interpreting Genesis 1 to fit an old Earth cannot be consistently applied to arrive at a literal Adam and a literal Fall.
The hermeneutics of the cross ought to lead us to quite different theological conclusions about living faithfully in the twilight of modernity.

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