historico-grammatical

adjective

Pertaining to, using or based on the textual analysis technique of using context and literary form to establish the meaning of the text at the time it was written.

Meanings

adjectivehistorico-grammatical (not comparable)

alternative historical-grammatical · alternative grammatico-historical

  1. not comparablehermeneutics; textual analysis; hermeneutics; textual analysisPertaining to, using or based on the textual analysis technique of using context and literary form to establish the meaning of the text at the time it was written.

    The biblical text is read typologically through the grid of holiness theology, ignoring historico-grammatical considerations.

    2011, Andrey P. Puzynin, The Tradition of the Gospel Christians, Wipf and Stock (Pickwick Publications), page 67
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    In biblical exegesis, the historico-grammatical approach tries to avoid extremes: that of dismissing the use of figurative language in the text on the one hand, versus dismissing the possibility of the miraculous and the supernatural on the other; that of ignoring what the original authors intended, versus ignoring relevance for modern readers; that of forcing the text into a preconceived theology, versus interpreting in isolation from the larger story of the gospel.

    In his opening paragraph, Wesley unabashedly declared that it is not his intention to pursue a historico-grammatical interpretation of the text:[…].

    2011, Ian J. Maddock, Men of One Book: A Comparison of Two Methodist Preachers, John Wesley and George Whitefield, Wipf and Stock (Pickwick Publications), page 124

    He rejects the view that Erasmus is the father of the modern historico-grammatical method of exegesis, and the view that Erasmus passed over the search for the literal sense of Scripture. He proposes an alternative view that the young Erasmus of the Enchiridion Militis Christiani (1503) followed the allegorical and tropological senses more than the older Erasmus who wrote the preface to the Novum Testamentum (1516). In the later work, Erasmus strongly advocates the historico-grammatical approach to the interpretation of Scripture.

    2013, Graeme R. Chatfield, Balthasar Hubmaier and the Clarity of Scripture: A Critical Reformation Issue, James Clarke and Co, page 54

Translations

Polish historyczno-gramatyczny
  • historyczno-gramatycznypertaining to, using or based on a textual analysis technique that examines context and literary form
Spanish histórico gramatical, histórico-gramatical
  • histórico gramaticalpertaining to, using or based on a textual analysis technique that examines context and literary form
  • histórico-gramaticalpertaining to, using or based on a textual analysis technique that examines context and literary form
  • gramático-históricopertaining to, using or based on a textual analysis technique that examines context and literary form
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