What is "exegetical"

Usage examples of "exegetical".

The recent writings of the exegetical Rationalists of England are sufficient to induce us to gather up our armor and adjust it for immediate defence.

Many of the universities had no other professors of theology than exegetical lecturers.

As no system had yet been advanced by the Rationalists, there was wide range for doctrinal and exegetical discussion.

Hugo Grotius, Erasmus, and other exegetical writers who had manifested independence in their interpretation of the Scriptures, were regarded with great suspicion and distrust.

His exegetical works, being far in advance of any which had appeared at that time, acquired great renown for their author.

To know Christ we need the exegetical study of that preparation of man for Christ, which is furnished by the Old Testament.

Rationalism in England are contained in the exegetical publications of Dr.

Thirlwall, Fitzgerald, and Griffin, addressed him a letter, in which he was requested to resign his office, since he must see, as well as they, the inconsistency of holding his position as Bishop and believing and publishing such views as were contained in his exegetical works.

Skepticism has been proclaimed principally by public lectures, and, in this form, has made little pretension to logical, exegetical, or metaphysical power.

This method of criticism rejects everything that traditional criticism thought important -- biography, literary history, philology -- they must all give place to a very close formal examination and exegetical evaluation of the texts of books themselves, exploring meanings in every mode of literary expression as they are directly apprehended by the informed modern reader.

It is illustrative of the changed tone of theologizing that after the death of Professor Smith, in the reorganization of the faculty of that important institution, it was manned in the three chief departments, exegetical, dogmatic, and practical, by men whose eminent distinction was in the line of church history.

In addition to exegetical studies on Buddhism and Confucianism, they compiled dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference-type materials that provided the groundwork for nearly all subsequent scholarly activity in premodern Japan.

Hundreds of books, as you know, have been filled with exegetical opinions about the Impressionists, Expressionists, Suprematists, Cubists, Futurists, Dadaists, and Surrealists of the early years of this century.