Historico-grammatical
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Historico-grammatical is an adjective meaning (hermeneutics, textual analysis) 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.
Meaning
(hermeneutics, textual analysis) 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.
Example Sentences
The biblical text is read typologically through the grid of holiness theology, ignoring historico-grammatical considerations.
In his opening paragraph, Wesley unabashedly declared that it is not his intention to pursue a historico-grammatical interpretation of the text:[…].
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.
Word Forms
- historical-grammatical
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include historical-grammatical, grammatico-historical, hermeneutical, philological, literal, hermeneutic.
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