something that stands for something else by reason of relationship.
Tagged: Scripture & Interpretation
something that stands for something else by reason of relationship.
More in Scripture & Interpretation
- Anthropomorphic — attributing human-like features and forms to God
- Exegesis — an explanation or commentary on the meaning of a text, to explain or expound
- Figurative — addressing one thing in terms normally denoting another with which it may be regarded as analogous
- General Revelation — the revealing of God in creation, the book of nature
- Hermeneutic — a system of interpretation or explanation
- Inerrant — without error in all regards or in a limited sense in all teachings
- Infallible — competely trustworthy
- Inspired — under divine selection and guidance
- Literal — true in the usual sense of the word, following the original closely
- Metaphor — a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting 1 kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness, symbolic
- Special Revelation — the revealing of God in redemption, usually but not always limited to the book of scripture
Related Across the Site
- Anthropomorphic Terminology — attributing human-like features and forms to God
- Exegesis Terminology — an explanation or commentary on the meaning of a text, to explain or expound
- Figurative Terminology — addressing one thing in terms normally denoting another with which it may be regarded as analogous
- General Revelation Terminology — the revealing of God in creation, the book of nature
- Hermeneutic Terminology — a system of interpretation or explanation
- Inerrant Terminology — without error in all regards or in a limited sense in all teachings
- Infallible Terminology — competely trustworthy
- Inspired Terminology — under divine selection and guidance
Provenance
From the legacy CCWV definitions list, carried into the database as an entry of its own. Spelling of headwords is corrected, and where a legacy definition stated one tradition's judgment as the definition itself, the judgment is now attributed to that tradition.