Definition of Hermeneutics
1. Noun. The branch of theology that deals with principles of exegesis.
Definition of Hermeneutics
1. n. The science of interpretation and explanation; exegesis; esp., that branch of theology which defines the laws whereby the meaning of the Scriptures is to be ascertained.
Definition of Hermeneutics
1. Noun. The study or theory of the methodical interpretation of text, especially holy texts. ¹
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1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"hermeneutics does not supply a deficiency of natural ability, ... Secondly, of
itself hermeneutics does not investigate the objective truth of a writer's ..."
2. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1879)
"IMMER'S hermeneutics.*—A good book on New Testament hermeneutics is a thing to
be welcomed at all times, and especially at present. The energy of scholars, ..."
3. A Compendium of Christian Theology: Being Analytical Outlines of a Course of by William Burt Pope (1889)
"hermeneutics. There is a distinct science of hermeneutics: that is, of the
principles which are applied in Exegesis, the exposition and interpretation of ..."
4. Conceptions of Social Inquiry by J. J. Snyman (1993)
"This train of thought has occasioned various critiques of Gadamer's hermeneutics.
Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutics will be discussed next because he explicitly ..."
5. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1879)
"But, while so much has thus been accomplished, we have had little in our language
in the way of treatises on the science of hermeneutics. ..."
6. The Quarterly Review of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South by Methodist Episcopal Church, South (1852)
"hermeneutics assumes their correctness, and seeks to ascertain the exact import
of '- the words which the Holy Ghost teacheth." Systems of interpretation ..."
7. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"In 1884 he accepted a call to Münster as professor of New Testament exegesis and
Biblical hermeneutics, and two years later returned in the same capacity to ..."
8. The Journal of English and Germanic Philology by Ill.) University of Illinois (Urbana (1918)
"NOTES ON THE HISTORY AND PRINCIPLES OF hermeneutics INTRODUCTORY One of the
essential functions of the ..."
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