Preposition: of

• suspicion: Anyone who spends time browsing there will find the stalls flooded with books that apply a hermeneutic of suspicion to biblical texts.

• gospel: Jesus expected the unity of the church in love to be the hermeneutic of the gospel.

• trust: In short, Abraham exemplifies a hermeneutic of consent, a hermeneutic of trust.

Modifies a noun

• circle: Too often we accept the idea of a Hermeneutic circle ( what you understand from a text depends on what you expect to find.

• meaning: This distinction between semantic and hermeneutic meaning seems to me both legitimate and helpful.

• principle: Using sound hermeneutic principles is not optional for the true disciple of Christ.

• approach: In addition to Wagner and Strauss, he is interested in opera generally and in hermeneutic approaches to the study of opera.

• analysis: BNIM is an integration of aspects of grounded theory ( Glaser and Strauss ), narrative style interviewing, hermeneutic analysis and phenomenology.

• theory: This calls for a hermeneutic cultural theory that also includes the third level, that of meaning.

Modifying Another Word

• only: Only hermeneutic translation - the translation of meanings - reveals in its end result truly equivalent words, structures and expressions.