单词 | hermeneutics |
释义 | hermeneuticsn. 1. The interpretation of scriptural texts; such interpretation as a subject of study or analysis, esp. with regard to theory or methodology. Also: a particular system of interpretation for scriptural texts.Such study often addresses the issue of how spiritual truths may be either revealed or obscured by the language of translated texts; it is commonly distinguished from exegesis or practical exposition. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > text > criticism, interpretation > [noun] > art or science of hermeneutics1737 1737 D. Waterland Rev. Doctr. Eucharist viii. 315 Taking such liberties with sacred Writ, as are by no means allowable upon any known rules of just and sober hermeneuticks. 1786 E. Apthorp Disc. Prophecy I. ii. 90 The best system of hermeneutics has been given to us by the best interpreter, Campegius Vitringa. 1839 H. W. Longfellow Hyperion II. iv. vii Here..I kept my papers and my great work on Biblical Hermeneutics. 1843 S. Davidson Sacred Hermeneutics i The meaning of all language, written or spoken, is developed by the application of general laws, usually termed Hermeneutics. 1927 S. Lewis Elmer Gantry v. 76 They give us pretty deep stuff: hermeneutics, chrestomathy, pericopes, exegesis, homiletics, liturgics, isagogics, Greek and Hebrew and Aramaic, hymnology, apologetics. 1969 R. Mannheim tr. H. Corbin Creative Imagination in Sūfism Ibn 'Arabī i. 15 Does the prophetism essential to Islam call for a gnosis, because truth of the Book postulates a prophetic hermeneutics, or does it exclude gnosis? 2004 J. McCourt Queer Street iv. 48 If the Bible were sincere, it would require no exegesis, no hermeneutics, no John the Divine breaking the seven seals to get at the big ending. 2. Chiefly Literary Criticism and Social Sciences. The study or analysis of how texts, utterances, or actions are interpreted. Also: a particular system of interpretation or scheme of analysis for language or actions.Such study typically addresses the plurality of possible interpretations arising from factors such as cultural, social, or historical context, linguistic imprecision or change, multiple witnesses, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > interpretation > [noun] > art or science of hermeneutics1835 1835 Amer. Jurist July 44 In this investigation, the author regards, as belonging to one and the same science, first, the glosses of the early interpreters of the Justinian compilation..the attempts at classification, generalization, and hermeneutics, commenced by Doneau. 1837 F. Lieber in Amer. Jurist Oct. 56 That science which establishes the principles and rules of interpretation and construction is called hermeneutics... There is no reason why this term should not be used in all sciences, in which interpretation is necessary. 1839 F. Lieber Polit. Hermeneutics (rev. ed.) vi. 152 The rules of epistolary hermeneutics apply still more forcibly to private journals. 1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture I. 287 No legend..is safe from the hermeneutics of a thorough-going mythologic theorist. 1907 Burlington Mag. Dec. 173/3 A kindred matter, in what may be called the hermeneutics of the Golden Fleece, is the interpretation of the title itself. 1958 Jrnl. Philos. 55 1145 The task of philosophical inquiry, according to the Heideggerian hermeneutics, is merely to propound insoluble problems and to heighten the mystery surrounding Being. 1983 P. de Man Rhetoric of Romanticism (1984) 269 This stress on..the mimesis of diegetic narratives..problematizes the relationship between a rhetoric and a hermeneutics of persuasion. 1998 Prospect Mar. 66/1 Walicki has clearly been schooled in the continental tradition of philosophical hermeneutics, in which every sentence of a text is scoured for tensions, ambiguities and sources of influence. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1737 |
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