单词 | higher criticism |
释义 | > as lemmashigher criticism higher criticism n. [after German höhere Kritik (1815 or earlier)] now rare criticism, esp of the Bible, which examines the historical context in which a text was written; = historical criticism n. at historical adj. and n. Compounds 3; also with the.Contrasted with lower criticism n. at lower adj., n.1, and adv. Compounds 2b. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > text > criticism, interpretation > [noun] > higher criticism criticism1625 higher criticism1822 1822 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 52 Formerly professor in the university there of the oriental languages, biblical archaiology, higher criticism, and doctrinal theology. 1836 R. Keith tr. E. W. Hengstenberg Christol. Old Test. I. 414 A fundamental principle of the higher criticism [Ger. der höheren Critik]. 1881 W. R. Smith Old Test. in Jewish Church (1892) 90 A series of questions affecting the composition, the editing, and the collection of the sacred books. This class of questions forms the special subject of the branch of critical science which is usually distinguished from the verbal criticism of the text by the name of Higher or Historical Criticism. 1927 S. Lewis Elmer Gantry ii. 34 It's fellows like you who break down the dike of true belief, and open a channel for higher criticism and sabellianism and nymphomania and agnosticism and heresy. 2007 Church Times 18 May 24/3 Biblical criticism, and then the higher criticism, revealed the Bible to be a book with a human history: a historical document composed of several strands written by human beings at different times, to be read in different ways. < as lemmas |
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