exegetical

• “The Rev. John Coleridge wrote an exegetical work on the Book of Judges; we doubt whether Walker could have spelt _exegetical_.”

  The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2

• “Then Edgeworth fires away about the Odes of Pindar, {80b} and Donne is very aesthetic about Mr. Hallam's Book. {80c} What is the meaning of 'exegetical'?”

  Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1

• “This book is a kind of "theological exegesis," as well as a personal reflection on the life of Christ; and it is not simply his deft exegetical writing but the personal touch which makes the work so inviting to readers.”

  The Huffington Post: Rev. James Martin, S.J.: Why The Pope's Words On The Jewish People Matter

• “But before we are going to accept this new wrinkle (part of the problem is that we have — inevitably — people in the congregation who confuse the category of a wrinkle with that of a heresy crept in unawares) or even think through its theological implications, however, we need to proceed by way of exegetical proof.”

  Realizations of the Unexamined Life « Unknowing

• “Confucius said that we do not know life, how can we know death Analects XI:11 That Okada took this particular passage from the Confucian Analects as his response to my question about a radical atheist construction of the meaning of the world and humanity in the 20th century is a fascinating exegetical interpretation and adaptation to a contemporary concern.”

  The Huffington Post: Rodney L. Taylor, Ph.D.: West Meets East: Confucius And Bertrund Russell

• “With his entirely exceptional capacity for work, he was perhaps the person who most contributed to maintaining alive the theological, exegetical and spiritual culture to which successive centuries would pay recourse.”

  Benedict on the Liturgy: "The Faith is not only thought"

• “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.”

  The Huffington Post: David Shasha: Monolingualism, Scriptural Translation and the Problem of Western Civilization

• “In addition, his interpretations of dogma almost always have a strong exegetical dimension, and he has also contributed several recognized works of theological and dogmatic history.”

  "Key Aspects of the Theology of Professor Joseph Ratzinger"

• “Just the opposite: they lost their faith because they read the texts in the original languages and accepted what they said at face value, without "spin doctoring" by committed exegetical propagandists who wanted them to believe what they were told, rather than what they could see with their own eyes.”

  Blind Faith?

• “If a feast of words -- from the exegetical to the incantatory -- about a feast of pictures was on one's menu, they certainly got their fill.”

  The Huffington Post: Michael Kurcfeld: Doing Shots: The Old and the New at Paris Photo 2011 (VIDEO)

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