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单词 hermeneutic
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Definition of hermeneutic in English:

hermeneutic

adjective ˌhəːmɪˈnjuːtɪkˌhərməˈn(j)udɪk
  • Concerning interpretation, especially of the Bible or literary texts.

    (尤指对《圣经》或文学文本的)解释的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Conjure-Man Dies, generically and esoterically, presents demanding self-referential problems for the writer and the reader of such hermeneutic texts.
    • History is not ontologically given but is linguistically and textually constructed, and it is therefore subject to the same textual and hermeneutic uncertainties as fiction.
    • Meese's stated hermeneutic principles are based in the text and in the historic record.
    • For Pynchon, the hieroglyph hints at, but ultimately frustrates, hermeneutic operations, leaving the interpreter faced with a social text whose key either has been irretrievably lost or never existed in the first place.
    • Consequently it considers healing as a hermeneutic process whose goal is to interpret that reality.
    • The Chinese notion of literary openness thus grew out of a disjunction between hermeneutic theory and exegetical practice.
    • For Gopin, this hermeneutic dimension of religion is crucial.
    • I once called these points hermeneutic windows - partly to counter the idea of music as purely self-sufficient and self-reflective, a windowless monad - and the term seems to have had some currency.
    • The primacy of the practical is what links Aristotle, American pragmatism, Heidegger's hermeneutic phenomenology and environmental philosophy.
    • Completing this hermeneutic circle, these articles, having taken their conception of the Irish American immigrant from dialect columns and books, contribute to a further castigation of the Irish American as stereotype.
    • Naturalistic and hermeneutic approaches see the relationship of the subject and object of inquiry as forcing the social scientist to take either the third-person or first-person perspective.
    • A close link between phenomenology and hermeneutics has resulted in the interchangeable use of the terms; however, philosophical beliefs differ among phenomenologists and hermeneutic philosophers.
    • Gadamer's hermeneutic theory of text interpretation is called dialectical hermeneutics, which treats the interpretation of text as a dialogue or fusion of horizons between the interpreter and text.
    • These are the key areas where the Chinese and Western concerns with hermeneutic openness converge.
    • The blinkered tendency to derive all-encompassing, universal answers has dumbed down semantic questions, eclipsed interpretative discussion and blinded scholarship to the ways in which context could cook up hermeneutic content.
    • More generally, the opening lines of the poem foreground the hermeneutic processes of reading and evaluation by which meaning will be constructed.
    • Understanding as involving a fusion of horizons requires the application of what is to be understood to the interpreter's hermeneutic situation.
    • But rather than modify those claims, he devotes a great deal of hermeneutic ingenuity to disguising their shortcomings, at times actively reconfiguring his sources to suit the case he defends.
    • The path that, in answer to his prayer, God had instantly shown Augustine - the path leading from the garden to that verse - could only be seen with hermeneutic eyes.
    • The middle sections include essays considering the hermeneutic significance, force, and limits of God-language.
    Synonyms
    explaining, descriptive, describing, illustrative, illuminative, elucidative, elucidatory, explicative, evaluative, interpretive, expository, revelatory, by way of explanation
noun ˌhəːmɪˈnjuːtɪkˌhərməˈn(j)udɪk
  • A method or theory of interpretation.

    解释的方法(或理论)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Lesslie Newbigin underscores this need passionately: ‘the only hermeneutic of the gospel is a congregation of men and women who believe it and live by it.’
    • To take them seriously is to wrestle with their complexities, to bring to them both a hermeneutic of suspicion and a hermeneutic of trust.
    • However insightful A. H. J. Gunneweg's thesis might be, it betrays the central difficulty of proposing a biblical hermeneutic that includes the subject matter of the Old Testament.
    • Can we continue to argue for a collectivist hermeneutic when eliciting biblical theology?
    • Conversely, to give any kind of credibility to his misinterpretation because it claims to be an interpretation is to go a long way toward validating the hermeneutic which Williams employs.
    • Johnson is committed to a hermeneutic in which Scripture, while read critically, is given free rein to address God's people with the force that it properly bears as God's word.
    • It is a hermeneutic which cannot operate in isolation from the community of reason, and this, I believe, marks an important point of departure from Calvin and the Puritan party in England.
    • But what motivates these shifts, if not a particular hermeneutic, a particular point of view or collection of views that presents itself within the overall tradition about Manasseh and/or creation?
    • Among the many achievements of the pontificate of John Paul II, some would say the most important achievement, was to secure the hermeneutic for the interpretation of that great council.
    • 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.
    • Second, I will show how Newman's foray into Monophysitism, still operating from the hermeneutic established in his work on Arianism, helped to pave the way for his conversion.
    • What the novel effects in regard to the Gothic, to parody, and to Catherine's readerly education is a hermeneutic of neither sameness nor difference, but one of ‘not unlike.’
    • Let it be said, genuine Reformed interpretation has no affinity to the Barthian hermeneutic.
    • Because they were very inconsistent, they adopted a new hermeneutic.
    • Instead of finding an Aristotelean ‘middle,’ Hooker's hermeneutic stands in opposition to both the Puritan movement and the assumptions that eventually led to Western secularism.
    • His proposal seeks to move beyond the classic model of simple direct prediction while at the same time rejecting a skeptical hermeneutic that is blind to possible messianic references on the part of OT seers.
    • He establishes that Evangelical theology ‘lacks a unitary hermeneutic’ of Catholicism.
    • Their hermeneutic for interpreting Genesis 1 to fit an old Earth cannot be consistently applied to arrive at a literal Adam and a literal Fall.
    • Unfortunately, I will need to pass over much of Newman's history; for my purpose his hermeneutic is more important than his recapitulation of the Nicene controversy.
    • Moreover, the social experiences of African Americans have provided the matrix for both the theological conception and the biblical hermeneutic.

Derivatives

  • hermeneutical

  • adjective
    • Before that time, the Bible was generally read as a unified body of Scripture with its hermeneutical center in the Gospels.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • James Packer's essay on hermeneutics predates Anthony Thiselton's efforts to increase hermeneutical awareness among evangelicals.
      • To understand the Bible, we have to work through volumes of literary criticism and hermeneutical theory.
      • The digression is far too short and undeveloped to plausibly stand on its own as an apocalypse without such an intertextual hermeneutical link.
      • Attempts at using allegedly relevant texts as moral guidelines today are subject to serious exegetical and hermeneutical constraints.
  • hermeneutically

  • adverb
    • From a Bakhtinian viewpoint, reading ‘The Heart of Darkness’ as part of a much larger text might seem to multiply the voices, to make the reading experience more dialogic and less hermeneutically certain.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It also means, moreover, that in disputes about biblical authority nobody has the high ground morally or hermeneutically.
      • By aiming to recover a genealogy of such radical epistemology, Herbert's project in effect aims to undergird a hermeneutically suspicious project via unsuspicious historicism.
      • Furthermore, historically speaking, in the church the rejection of the literal truth of Genesis preceded (and hermeneutically laid the groundwork for) the rejection of the literal truth of the Virgin Birth and Resurrection of Christ.
      • In canonical perspective, profitability requires that the Bible not be seen as a collection of hermeneutically independent texts that reveal discreet bits of theological truth.

Origin

Late 17th century: from Greek hermēneutikos, from hermēneuein 'interpret'.

Definition of hermeneutic in US English:

hermeneutic

adjectiveˌhərməˈn(j)udɪkˌhərməˈn(y)o͞odik
  • Concerning interpretation, especially of the Bible or literary texts.

    (尤指对《圣经》或文学文本的)解释的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A close link between phenomenology and hermeneutics has resulted in the interchangeable use of the terms; however, philosophical beliefs differ among phenomenologists and hermeneutic philosophers.
    • The blinkered tendency to derive all-encompassing, universal answers has dumbed down semantic questions, eclipsed interpretative discussion and blinded scholarship to the ways in which context could cook up hermeneutic content.
    • The Chinese notion of literary openness thus grew out of a disjunction between hermeneutic theory and exegetical practice.
    • I once called these points hermeneutic windows - partly to counter the idea of music as purely self-sufficient and self-reflective, a windowless monad - and the term seems to have had some currency.
    • Naturalistic and hermeneutic approaches see the relationship of the subject and object of inquiry as forcing the social scientist to take either the third-person or first-person perspective.
    • Gadamer's hermeneutic theory of text interpretation is called dialectical hermeneutics, which treats the interpretation of text as a dialogue or fusion of horizons between the interpreter and text.
    • The Conjure-Man Dies, generically and esoterically, presents demanding self-referential problems for the writer and the reader of such hermeneutic texts.
    • These are the key areas where the Chinese and Western concerns with hermeneutic openness converge.
    • But rather than modify those claims, he devotes a great deal of hermeneutic ingenuity to disguising their shortcomings, at times actively reconfiguring his sources to suit the case he defends.
    • Completing this hermeneutic circle, these articles, having taken their conception of the Irish American immigrant from dialect columns and books, contribute to a further castigation of the Irish American as stereotype.
    • For Pynchon, the hieroglyph hints at, but ultimately frustrates, hermeneutic operations, leaving the interpreter faced with a social text whose key either has been irretrievably lost or never existed in the first place.
    • The path that, in answer to his prayer, God had instantly shown Augustine - the path leading from the garden to that verse - could only be seen with hermeneutic eyes.
    • More generally, the opening lines of the poem foreground the hermeneutic processes of reading and evaluation by which meaning will be constructed.
    • Understanding as involving a fusion of horizons requires the application of what is to be understood to the interpreter's hermeneutic situation.
    • The middle sections include essays considering the hermeneutic significance, force, and limits of God-language.
    • For Gopin, this hermeneutic dimension of religion is crucial.
    • Meese's stated hermeneutic principles are based in the text and in the historic record.
    • The primacy of the practical is what links Aristotle, American pragmatism, Heidegger's hermeneutic phenomenology and environmental philosophy.
    • Consequently it considers healing as a hermeneutic process whose goal is to interpret that reality.
    • History is not ontologically given but is linguistically and textually constructed, and it is therefore subject to the same textual and hermeneutic uncertainties as fiction.
    Synonyms
    explaining, descriptive, describing, illustrative, illuminative, elucidative, elucidatory, explicative, evaluative, interpretive, expository, revelatory, by way of explanation
nounˌhərməˈn(j)udɪkˌhərməˈn(y)o͞odik
  • A method or theory of interpretation.

    解释的方法(或理论)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Conversely, to give any kind of credibility to his misinterpretation because it claims to be an interpretation is to go a long way toward validating the hermeneutic which Williams employs.
    • It is a hermeneutic which cannot operate in isolation from the community of reason, and this, I believe, marks an important point of departure from Calvin and the Puritan party in England.
    • Their hermeneutic for interpreting Genesis 1 to fit an old Earth cannot be consistently applied to arrive at a literal Adam and a literal Fall.
    • Moreover, the social experiences of African Americans have provided the matrix for both the theological conception and the biblical hermeneutic.
    • Can we continue to argue for a collectivist hermeneutic when eliciting biblical theology?
    • Johnson is committed to a hermeneutic in which Scripture, while read critically, is given free rein to address God's people with the force that it properly bears as God's word.
    • What the novel effects in regard to the Gothic, to parody, and to Catherine's readerly education is a hermeneutic of neither sameness nor difference, but one of ‘not unlike.’
    • Lesslie Newbigin underscores this need passionately: ‘the only hermeneutic of the gospel is a congregation of men and women who believe it and live by it.’
    • Second, I will show how Newman's foray into Monophysitism, still operating from the hermeneutic established in his work on Arianism, helped to pave the way for his conversion.
    • 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.
    • His proposal seeks to move beyond the classic model of simple direct prediction while at the same time rejecting a skeptical hermeneutic that is blind to possible messianic references on the part of OT seers.
    • Among the many achievements of the pontificate of John Paul II, some would say the most important achievement, was to secure the hermeneutic for the interpretation of that great council.
    • Unfortunately, I will need to pass over much of Newman's history; for my purpose his hermeneutic is more important than his recapitulation of the Nicene controversy.
    • To take them seriously is to wrestle with their complexities, to bring to them both a hermeneutic of suspicion and a hermeneutic of trust.
    • Instead of finding an Aristotelean ‘middle,’ Hooker's hermeneutic stands in opposition to both the Puritan movement and the assumptions that eventually led to Western secularism.
    • Because they were very inconsistent, they adopted a new hermeneutic.
    • However insightful A. H. J. Gunneweg's thesis might be, it betrays the central difficulty of proposing a biblical hermeneutic that includes the subject matter of the Old Testament.
    • He establishes that Evangelical theology ‘lacks a unitary hermeneutic’ of Catholicism.
    • But what motivates these shifts, if not a particular hermeneutic, a particular point of view or collection of views that presents itself within the overall tradition about Manasseh and/or creation?
    • Let it be said, genuine Reformed interpretation has no affinity to the Barthian hermeneutic.

Origin

Late 17th century: from Greek hermēneutikos, from hermēneuein ‘interpret’.

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