“The question concerning Jesus: do you want to know the real story, or just the allegory?” — Eli Of Kittim Copy Share Image
“Seldom do we embrace a new idea, especially one of a religious nature.” — Eli Of Kittim Copy Share Image
“We live in a stocking which is in the process of being turned inside out, without our ever knowing for sure to… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“One could say that my view legitimately fuses the end-time messianic expectations of all three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Islam, and Christianity!” — Eli Of Kittim Copy Share Image
“In my view, the gospels are true, not historically, but theologically, or, as I would argue, prophetically! What we have is, the… — Eli Of Kittim Copy Share Image
When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
By now they had mastered my own language, but they still made simple mistakes, like using 'hermeneutics,' when they meant 'heuristic'. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
In using terms like patriarchy, hermeneutics, and sexual/textual, I do not wish to misrepresent the Qurn as a feminist text; rather, the… — Asma Barlas Copy Share Image
A physicist friend of mine once said that in facing death, he drew some consolation from the reflection that he would never… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“Historical exegesis is only the preliminary part of interpretation; application is its essence. Exegesis without application should not be called interpretation at… — J.I. Packer Copy Share Image
“Someday when we get around to writing a genealogy of our failures, inadequacies, and disappointments, an important place in such a study… — Boris Gunjević Copy Share Image
“What is the difference between my view and the classical Christian perspective? I am convinced that there are not multiple comings and… — Eli Of Kittim Copy Share Image
“Those who devote themselves to the study of Sacred Scripture should always remember that the various hermeneutical approaches have their own philosophical… — John Paul II Copy Share Image
“...no theory of hermeneutic legitimation can be indeed legitimate if not by the process of hermeneutic reading… At the origin of the… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“The literal sense of the author was "creation is the orderly act of a loving Creator God." What the modern reader often… — Mark Shea Copy Share Image
“Proponents of canonical hermeneutics are either unintentionally or willfully naive here-in most cases the naivete is willful. Canonical readings simply act as… — Thom Stark Copy Share Image
“Pastors and Bible teachers go about their work in communal settings, where they listen to as well as deliver sermons, hear as… — Peter J. Leithart Copy Share Image
Talk can neither be verified nor falsified in any rigorous sense. This is an open secret which hermeneutics and aesthetics, from Aristotle… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“The individualism of the Romantic theory of interpretation attempts to abstract the individual from his historical context by presenting him with the… — Andrew Louth Copy Share Image
The hermeneutic consciousness, which must be awakened and kept awake, recognized that in the age of science philosophy's claim of superiority has… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
What hermeneutics teaches is that progress comes from being exposed to different points of views because there's no point of view that… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
How many times have you struggled with the interpretation of certain Biblical texts related to the time of Jesus' return because they… — Gary DeMar Copy Share Image
“In fact, certainty exists in very different modes. The kind of certainty afforded by a verification that has passed through doubt is… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
How can this strange story of God made flesh, of a crucified Savior, of resurrection and new creation become credible for those… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
“Most of all I found myself listening- listening in the acutely active way that makes dialogue a truly hermeneutical act. Hermeneutics is… — James W. Fowler Copy Share Image
When it happeneth that a man signifieth unto us two contradictory opinions whereof the one is clearly and directly signified, andthe other… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“Too often scholars have thought and even suggested that what happened during and after Constantine was that the church sought to replace… — Ben Witherington III Copy Share Image
“One of the things that happened when the church moved from meetings in homes to having purpose-built buildings beginning before, but accelerated… — Ben Witherington III Copy Share Image
“There is a moment in the tractate Menahot when the Rabbis imagine what takes place when Moses ascends Mount Sinai to receive… — Jonathan Rosen Copy Share Image
“There are good theological reasons to reject making authorial intention the goal of the interpretation of Scripture. First, we must recognize that… — Dale B. Martin Copy Share Image
“If we fail to understand the biblical story of Jesus, we will compromise our prophetic interpretations of the end-times. And that's exactly… — Eli Of Kittim Copy Share Image
“With regard to the gospels, biblical scholarship has mixed-up theology with history, thereby turning the eschatology of the epistles into memoirs.” — Eli Of Kittim Copy Share Image
Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one. — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
“The history of interpretation, the skills by which we keep alive in our minds the light and dark of past literature and… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
My hermeneutics is when I see verses in Scripture that are "apparent" contradictions - I don't believe they are contradictions - I… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“Does one approach the Scriptures (or any other influential document or collection of documents in the history of world civilization) with a… — Craig Blomberg Copy Share Image
“I urge not that we assume that love will provide a reliable foundation for knowledge but that we nonetheless keep the requirements… — Dale B. Martin Copy Share Image
To a degree which is difficult to determine, the esoteric impulse in twentieth-century music, literature and the arts reflects calculation. It looks… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
From Rome, now the nuncio is on the border where [Ukrainians] are fighting, helping soldiers and the wounded. The Church of Rome… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
![“From Rome, now the nuncio is on the border where [Ukrainians] are fighting, helping soldiers and the wounded. The Church of Rome has sent so much help there. It's always peace, agreements. We must respect the Minsk accords and so on. This is the entirety. But, don't get scared by that phrase. And…” quote by Pope Francis](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/300/pope-francis-85_accord_from-rome-now-the-nuncio-is-on-the-borde_1081877.png)
