eisegetically
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]eisegetically (not comparable)
- In terms of, or by means of, eisegesis.
- 1916, The New Age Magazine, volume 24, page 122:
- Interpret them eisegetically — read into them the noble thoughts which improve you — let them be burning characters of light.
- 1945, The Abiding Word: Essays for the year 1946, page 312:
- We are certainly not “eisegetically” importing anything into such passages if we find total spiritual impotence expressed in them.
- 2014, Whitney Bauman, Religion and Ecology: Developing a Planetary Ethic[1], page 88:
- Eisegetically quoting about eight different sources in biblical Scripture, some self-proclaimed Christians argue that it is an abomination according to the Bible, which is then understood as the word of God.