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  • So that belief -- via a "hermaneutic" -- then had to be retroactively planted into books that held no such view.

    The Inerrancy of Ecclesiastes 9:2-6 James F. McGrath 2010

  • Yes, they have developed a dispensational "hermaneutic" that allows them to pick and choose what they want to take seriously, but that theology is itself irrational.

    Solutions for Homosexual Christians James F. McGrath 2008

  • Historical allegory, however, succeeds or fails by the strength of the symbolic hermaneutic between the past and the present.

    Historical Fiction 2010

  • You remain stuck in hermaneutic analysis, and are unable to make an ethical or moral argument for your view.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Copyright and the Why of Property Talk 2009

  • Christians today don't have a "crude hermaneutic" only to the extent that they don't apply logic to their ideas.

    Solutions for Homosexual Christians James F. McGrath 2008

  • Phrases like "the constuctedness of knowledge," "infinite hermaneutic regression" and "radical disconnect between the signifier and signified" pass through my lips easily ... just to name three examples of things I said this week and was immediately embarrassed to have said.

    Archive 2005-09-01 Richard Nokes 2005

  • Phrases like "the constuctedness of knowledge," "infinite hermaneutic regression" and "radical disconnect between the signifier and signified" pass through my lips easily ... just to name three examples of things I said this week and was immediately embarrassed to have said.

    Professionalization and Our Arid Literary Era Richard Nokes 2005

  • Phrases like "the constuctedness of knowledge," "infinite hermaneutic regression" and "radical disconnect between the signifier and signified" pass through my lips easily ... just to name three examples of things I said this week and was immediately embarrassed to have said.

    September 2005 Dr. Richard Scott Nokes 2005

  • Post some facts and not Limbaughs or Coulters hermaneutic crap.

    Think Progress » North Korea’s Atomic March 2006

  • mighty aphrodite is more like a crazed protein wisdom kinda hermaneutic paste eater.

    Think Progress » Powell: ‘Staying the Course Isn’t Good Enough Because a Course Has to Have an End’ 2006

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