Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to or of the nature of eisegesis.
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Examples
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God help you if you point out how obviously eisegetical their work is.
Another Conservative Christian Repudiation of the Bible James F. McGrath 2009
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Religious interpretation is different, because faith is a creative act, inherently eisegetical in that the believer is trying replicate a spiritual epiphany, not just copy an idea.
The Volokh Conspiracy » More Bench Memos Boys v. Balkin: 2007
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Many anti-Christian apologists adopt a type of enlightened-literal eisegetical bias which discredits the beliefs of Christianity dishonestly as irrational and thus logically the
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Segura, who testified, "Religion is the chief obstacle for gay and lesbian political progress," a progress that it would be unsurprising to find that Judge Walker and other eisegetical judges may consider inexorable and "constitutionally mandated."
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This sort of eisegetical paraphrase would make the alleged translation a laughing stock for anyone who knows Greek.
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Many anti-Christian apologists adopt a type of enlightened-literal eisegetical bias which discredits the beliefs of Christianity dishonestly as irrational and thus logically the
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Segura, who testified, "Religion is the chief obstacle for gay and lesbian political progress," a progress that it would be unsurprising to find that Judge Walker and other eisegetical judges may consider inexorable and "constitutionally mandated."
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Many anti-Christian apologists adopt a type of enlightened-literal eisegetical bias which discredits the beliefs of Christianity dishonestly as irrational and thus logically the
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Segura, who testified, "Religion is the chief obstacle for gay and lesbian political progress," a progress that it would be unsurprising to find that Judge Walker and other eisegetical judges may consider inexorable and "constitutionally mandated."
Deborah Gyapong 2010
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Many anti-Christian apologists adopt a type of enlightened-literal eisegetical bias which discredits the beliefs of Christianity dishonestly as irrational and thus logically the
ag0991 commented on the word eisegetical
marked by distorted explaination of text, especially Biblical text, to fit the meaning to preconcieved notions -- or, as Shakespeare better said, "The Devil can cite scripture for his purpose."
December 2, 2008