- Eisegesis
Unreferenced date November 2007 wiktionarypar eisegesis Eisegesis from Ancient Greek Greek into and ending from exegesis from to lead out is the process of misinterpreting a text in such a way that it introduces one s own ideas, reading into the text. This is best understood when contrasted with exegesis . While exegesis draws out the meaning from the text, eisegesis occurs when a reader reads his her interpretation into the text. As a result, exegesis tends to be objective when employed effectively while eisegesis is regarded as highly subjective. An individual who practices eisegesis is known as an eisegete, as someone who practices exegesis is known as an exegete . The term eisegete is often used in a mildly derogatory fashion. Eisegesis in Biblical study While exegesis attempts to determine the historical context within which a particular verse exists the so called Sitz im Leben or life setting eisegetes often neglect this aspect of Bible Biblical study . In the field of Biblical exegesis scholars take great care to avoid eisegesis. In this field, eisegesis is regarded as poor exegesis. While some denominations and scholars denounce Biblical eisegesis, many Christians are known to employ it &mdash albeit inadvertently &mdash as part of their own experiential theology . Modern Evangelicalism evangelical scholars accuse liberal Protestant s of practicing Biblical eisegesis, while Mainline Protestant mainline scholars accuse Fundamentalist Christianity fundamentalists of practicing eisegesis. Roman Catholic Church Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox Church Orthodox Christians say that all Protestantism Protestants engage in eisegesis, because the Bible can be correctly understood only through the lens of Holy Tradition as handed down by the institutional Church. Fact date October 2007 Jews, in turn, might assert that Christians practice eisegesis when ... eisegesis remains a source of debate among theologians, but most scholars agree about the importance ... more details
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- Bible translations into Finnish
the translation to be heretical , with certain controversial renderings primarily of an Eisegesis ... more details
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- Exegesis
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- Promised Land
ref This may however reflect an eisegesis or reconstruction of primary verses based on the later ... more details
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- Psychological biblical criticism
perform the function of eisegesis personal interpretation of a text rather than exegesis critical ... more details
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- Seven trumpets
. Newport . Apocalypse and millennium studies in biblical eisegesis, ISBN 0521773342, 9780521773348 , 2000 ... more details
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- Preterism
, Newport, Kenneth GC, Apocalypse and Millennium Studies in Biblical Eisegesis , page 74 2000 ... 2, page 510 1954 ref ref Newport, Kenneth GC, Apocalypse and Millennium Studies in Biblical Eisegesis ... , Newport, Kenneth GC, Apocalypse and Millennium Studies in Biblical Eisegesis , page ... more details
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- Seven seals
eisegesis url http books.google.com ?id f3Cm9ALJbe0C edition 1. publ. date 2000 08 28 publisher ... in biblical eisegesis url http books.google.com ?id f3Cm9ALJbe0C date 2000 08 28 publisher Cambridge ... and millennium studies in biblical eisegesis url http books.google.com ?id f3Cm9ALJbe0C date ... more details
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- Restoration (Latter Day Saints)
book 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 verse 3 as an example of eisegesis . Critics Who date August 2008 say ... more details
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- Historicism (Christianity)
studies in biblical eisegesis , pp. 14 15 2000 ref Arising in Great Britain and Scotland, William ... eisegesis year 2000 publisher Cambridge University Press location Cambridge u.a. isbn 9780521773348 ... more details
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- Ussher chronology
book author Kenneth G. C. Newport title Apocalypse and millennium studies in biblical eisegesis url ... more details
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- John Barton (theologian)
, pp. 51 64. Authority of Scripture , Canon , Eisegesis , Oracle , Prophets and Prophecy , and Verbal ... more details
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- Gerard Manley Hopkins
eye... it amounts to a slanted eisegesis . The poems that elicit homoerotic readings can be read not merely ... more details
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- Scientific foreknowledge in sacred texts
whose interpretation can be stretched to describe modern understanding. He warns that eisegesis reading ... more details
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- Dispensationalist theology
prophecy concerning Israel, conditions upon prophesies, and interpreting texts in eisegesis , or exegesis ... more details
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- Bible code
commentaries on the Bible commentary regarding the Bible, leading to both exegesis and eisegesis ... more details
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- History of South Africa
Christian denominations Dutch Reformed Church reading into eisegesis characters and plot found ... more details
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- Continuationism
Will apostles and prophets cease ? which is called an Eisegesis or proof texting . But the text ... more details
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- Jehovah's Witnesses
for exegesis interpreting and eisegesis applying scripture . ref name Penton 1997 61 62 ... more details
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- Papal infallibility
File Gregorythegreat.jpg thumb right The Holy Spirit Christianity Holy Spirit descending on Pope Gregory I , by Carlo Saraceni , circa 1610, Rome. Portal Catholicism Papal infallibility is a dogma of the Catholic Church which states that, by action of the Holy Spirit Christianity Holy Spirit , the Pope is preserved from even the possibility of error ref infallibility means more than exemption from actual error it means exemption from the possibility of error, P. J. Toner, http www.newadvent.org cathen 07790a.htm Infallibility , http www.newadvent.org cathen index.html Catholic Encyclopedia , 1910 ref when in his official capacity he solemnly declares or promulgation promulgates to the universal Catholic Church Church a dogmatic teaching on faith or morals. It is also taught that the Holy Spirit works in the body of the Church, as sensus fidelium , to ensure that dogmatic teachings proclaimed to be infallible will be received by all Catholics. This dogma, however, does not state either that the Pope cannot sin in his own personal life or that he is necessarily free of error, even when speaking in his official capacity, outside the specific contexts in which the dogma applies. This doctrine was dogmatic definition defined dogmatically in the First Vatican Council of 1870. According to Catholic theology, there are several concepts important to the understanding of infallible, divine revelation Sacred Scripture , Sacred Tradition , and the Magisterium Sacred Magisterium . The infallible teachings of the Pope are part of the Sacred Magisterium, which also consists of ecumenical councils and the ordinary and universal magisterium . In Catholic theology, papal infallibility is one of the channels of the infallibility of the Church . The infallible teachings of the Pope must be based on, or at least not contradict, Sacred Tradition or Sacred Scripture. Papal infallibility does not signify that the Pope is impeccability impeccable , i.e. ., that he is specially exempt from l ... more details
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