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Accommodation When speaking of divine revelation, it means that God designed the message to be understood by the original audience in their own context. |
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Anthropomorphism It refers to the way God sometimes speaks or behaves in ways that seem almost human. |
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Bacon The "father of modern science" |
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Descartes The "father of modern rationalism" |
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Dialogical Approach to interpreting Scripture that involves a type of conversation between the reader and the text, coming to understand it better and better |
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Exegesis Theological term for the process of analyzing a Bible passage. It means literally to "lead out" the meaning. |
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Gutenberg He invented the printing press in the 15th century. |
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Hermeneutics The study of how to interpret the meaning and significance of Scripture |
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Hexapla A work (now lost) of over 50 volumes written by Origen of Alexandria, in which he made a word-by-word comparison of various Hebrew and Greek versions of the Old Testament |
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Hume Scottish skeptic philosopher who believed that our emotions, desires and mental categories always influence our thinking |
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