Sentences with word «anagogical»

Such texts imply that the invisible God is made visible through the incarnation in a concrete and not simply mystical or anagogical way — that those who saw Jesus in his earthly life also «saw» the first person of the Trinity.

[22] The Catechism of the Catholic Church provides a magisterial endorsement for this call: «According to an ancient tradition, one can distinguish between two senses of Scripture: the literal and the spiritual, the latter being subdivided into the allegorical, moral, and anagogical senses.

Typological exegesis differs from allegorical and anagogical exegesis in that it is controlled by the analogy of faith, which views the events and discourses of the Old Testament in indissoluble relation to Jesus Christ, to the mystery of his incarnation and the miracle of his saving work (cf. Acts 26:22; I Peter 1:10 - 12).

It is the word anagogical — which means pointing to mystery, pointing to the Divine life and our participation in it.

According to Wright, following this imaginatively allegorical period, came the medieval emphasis on the «four senses» in which theologians distinguished four different senses of scripture: the literal, the allegorical, the anagogical, and the moral.

Unraveling the significance of the stories is easier if we distinguish the four layers of interpretation identified in medieval biblical hermeneutics: literal, moral, analogical, and anagogical.

But the «anagogical» interpretation is perhaps most useful: Fairies represent forgotten human possibilities and strange philosophies that we might grow to understand, to transcend, or to embrace.

There are many «signs» and «symbols» in the Bible that were MEANT to be read on several levels - the literal, the anagogical, and many steps in between (five, to be exact).

Flannery's works are anagogical and that is what makes here so frustrating to some and so fascinating to others.

In an extensive investigation of Gregory's views on gender, marriage, exegesis, death, virtue and the church, he concludes that Gregory's «anagogical or upward transposition leaves behind the objects of earthly, embodied existence.»

Thanks to the admirable work of de Lubac on the «four meanings» of Scripture — historical, allegorical, moral, anagogical — the breadth of this mutual interpretation of Scripture and existence is known.

And it remains an absolute norm as long as its literal meaning serves as an indisputable basis on which all the other levels of meaning — the allegorical, moral, and anagogical — are constructed.