The four senses of Scripture is a four-level method of interpreting the Bible. In Christianity, the four senses are literal, allegorical, moral and anagogical...

scripture Catechism of the Catholic Church (nos. 101–41). These developments gave rise to an approach that emphasizes the "four senses" of scripture within...

interpretation Allegorical interpretations of Plato Demythologization Esoteric interpretation of the Quran Four senses of Scripture Hermeneutics Parallelomania Pardes...

the context of the Enlightenment in the Western world. Prior to this, Medieval Christianity tended to emphasize the four senses of Scripture: the literal...

practice of interpreting the figurative meaning of the Bible. It is part of biblical exegesis and one of the Four senses of Scripture. The Christian Four Senses...

Medieval Exegesis: The Four Senses of Scripture, is a four-volume study by Henri de Lubac, first published in French (Exégèse médiévale) between 1959...

Parratt 1995. Lubac, Henri de (1998). Medieval exegesis. Vol. 1: The four senses of scripture. Ressourcement. Vol. 1. Grand Rapids, Mich: Eerdmans [u.a.]...

Review) de Lubac, Medieval Exegesis, Vol 1: The Four Senses of Scripture". The Medieval Review, University of Indiana. Retrieved 10 June 2023. Perry, Alan...

the "four senses". The Catechism by specifies that the necessary spiritual interpretation should be sought through the four senses of Scripture. The literal...

theological strength of each volume. In Christianity, biblical exegeses have relied on various doctrines. The doctrine of four senses of Scripture is a concept...

Press. p. 188. ISBN 978-0-88706-831-7. Cooper, Alan (2017). "The Four Senses of Scripture and Their Afterlife". ww.sbl-site.org. Retrieved 2023-12-01. Peshat...

explains the medieval four senses of Scripture and the interpretation rules of Augustine of Hippo and Isidore of Seville. The reliability of the GP has been...

Relevance of Augustine's View of Creation Early Church Fathers vs. Young Earth Creationism Four Senses of Scripture includes background on the history of non-literal...

Sola scriptura (Latin for 'by scripture alone') is a Christian theological doctrine held by most Protestant Christian denominations, in particular the...

of other Gothic churches, Suger's arguments showed how all four senses of scripture were present: Literal (the product of linguistic understanding of...

History of Interpretation (London: Macmillan, 1886), p. 201 ff. Henri de Lubac, published in English as Medieval Exegesis: The Four Senses of Scripture (Wm...

punctis; and De tribus sensibus sacre scripture ('On the three senses of holy scripture'), on the four senses of Scripture. The last two works survive in three...

"The Four Senses of Scripture" in The Brandsma Review 16/2 (2007): 14–16. "The Use of Philosophical Principles in Catholic Social Thought: The Case of Gaudium...

anagogical senses of the Sacred Scriptures and provide numerous quotations of the Church Fathers and mediaeval interpreters. Like most of his predecessors...

Roman Period, there is ample evidence of this ceremony, which was believed to give the deceased their fundamental senses to carry out tasks in the afterlife...

Scripture. — In John 13. Lect. 1 Another theologian, Hugh of St. Victor, is known for stressing the importance of the historical and literal senses of...

two senses of scripture: the literal and the spiritual. The literal sense of understanding scripture is the meaning conveyed by the words of Scripture. The...

The Image of St Francis. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-78291-3) Philip D. Krey et al., Nicholas of Lyra: The Senses of Scripture (Brill 2000...

consummation of the world. Catholic theology adds other rules of interpretation which include: the injunction that all other senses of sacred scripture are based...

various forms of prayer and the process of coming to know God. Contemplative practices range from simple prayerful meditation of holy scripture (i.e. Lectio...

idea. Smith concluded that "religion" now has four distinct senses: personal piety, an overt system of beliefs, practices, and values as an ideal religion...

are distributed according to the Gunas born of their own nature. The control of the mind and the senses, austerity, purity, forbearance, and also uprightness...

Digambar Sādhu is allowed to keep only a feather whisk, a water gourd and scripture with him. In Jainism, those śrāvakas (householders) who wish to attain...

forms of emancipation, liberation, nirvana, or release. In its soteriological and eschatological senses, it refers to freedom from saṃsāra, the cycle of death...

prophecies of the Old Testament. Scripture was a record of the earlier Tradition that should not be interpreted outside that tradition: scripture should not...