hermeneutic in English

adjective
1
concerning interpretation, especially of the Bible or literary texts.
These are the key areas where the Chinese and Western concerns with hermeneutic openness converge.
noun
1
a method or theory of interpretation.
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.

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1. But its main problem is its inconsistent hermeneutic and its Allegorizing of many biblical …

2. The Christocentric hermeneutic has proposed a modification to a grammatical-historical hermeneutical approach

3. Apuleius is often considered to be a Latin sophist, a master of narratological and hermeneutic games, with no particular philosophical agenda

4. Accordingly, I submit that the heightened risk of Bioweapons ' use as an instrument of twenty-first-century terrorist warfare is a significant hermeneutic through which to …

5. Step 1: Affirm a “Christocentric hermeneutic” in which all Scripture is supposedly filtered and re-interpreted from the perspective of “the God who Jesus reveals.” Step 2: Argue that Jesus stood against oppression and defended the downtrodden and marginalized in society.