hermeneutic

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Corruption via hermeneutic is corruption via misinterpretation.

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  1. adjective Interpretive; explanatory.

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  • Our fundamental hermeneutic is based upon our experience of the Holy Spirit in the Church. —  The Ochlophobist
  • Theology is a hermeneutic which attempts to take old authoritative texts and read them doctrinally, with the big question at stake: what does this text say to me about my life as a Christian? —  The Forbidden Gospels Blog
  • So I want to thank Lüdemann for his careful historical-critical analysis of Acts. He brings up some tough historical hermeneutic issues in this piece, including the fact that our new historiography has revealed to us that no one writes entirely objective history. —  The Forbidden Gospels Blog
  • Unless I listen to these kind of stories with a suspicion hermeneutic (which, to be honest, gets depressing after a while), I wish my life could be like that. —  Faith-Promoting Rumor
  • As a result, they would be the first to insist, with their transformed hermeneutic (not least the reading of the sacred texts in salvation-historical sequence), that the Scriptures themselves can be shown to anticipate a suffering Servant-King, a Priest-King, a new High Priest, and so forth. —  Triablogue
 

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  1. Greek hermēneutikos, from hermēneutēs, interpreter, from hermēneuein, to interpret, from hermēneus, interpreter.

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  1. from Greek from ἑρμηνευτικός, of or for interpreting, ἑρμηνευτής, an interpreter: see hermeneut.
 

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/hərməˈnjutɪk/
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