Exegesis Quotes

• Exegesis, exegesis, and yet more exegesis!

  Karl Barth

  Karl Barth (2007). “A Shorter Commentary on Romans”, p.7, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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• There is a simplicity that exists on the far side of complexity, and there is a communication of sentiment and attitude not to be discovered by careful exegesis of a text.

  Pat Buchanan

  Attitude, Communication, Simplicity

  "Right from the Beginning". Book by Patrick Buchanan,, 1988.

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• So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.

  Christy Turlington

  Religion, Dogma, Christ

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• [The sensate body possesses] an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Art, Wish, Body

  "The Visible and the Invisible". Book by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, p. 135, 1968.

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• Exactly halfway between exegesis and practical theology stands dogmatics.

  Karl Barth

  Theology, Practicals, Halfway

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• It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics, too, is only an interpretation and exegesis of the world (to suit us, if I may say so!) and not a world-explanation.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mind, World, May

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.211, Modern Library

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• What on earth is modern exegesis up to? Oh, little lazy one! Some red wine and up! Off you go, brandishing your fork, stripped of Ophelia's useless ornaments, fire in your large nostrils, out to rake the muck of metaphors.

  Louis Aragon

  Wine, Fire, Lazy

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• One of the things I really respect about Doug Moo is that he is constantly grappling with the text. Where he hears the text saying something which is not what his tradition would have said, he will go with the text. I won't always agree with his exegesis, but there is a relentless scholarly honesty about him which I really tip my hat off to.

  N. T. Wright

  Honesty, Hats, Tradition

  Interview with Trevin Wax, blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• There is a notion that complete impartiality is the most fitting and indeed the normal disposition for true exegesis , because it guarantees complete absence of prejudice. For a short time, around 1910, this idea threatened to achieve almost a canonical status in Protestant theology. But now, we can quite calmly describe it as merely comical.

  Karl Barth

  Ideas, Prejudice, Guarantees

  Karl Barth (2004). “Church Dogmatics: The doctrine of the word of God (2 pts.)”, p.469, A&C Black

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• In one day I had altered my life; my life, therefore, was alterable. This simple axiom did not call out for exegesis; no, it entered my bloodstream directly, as powerful as heroin. I could feel it pump and surge, the way it brightened my veins to a kind of glass. I had wakened that morning to narrowness and predestination and now I was falling asleep in the storm of my own free will.

  Carol Shields

  Morning, Powerful, Fall

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• It is the Jews who originated biblical exegesis (a critical analysis of the Bible), just as they were the first to criticize the forms and doctrines of Christianity...Truly has Darmesteter written: 'The Jew was the apostle of unbelief, and every revolt of mind originated with him.'

  Bernard Lazare

  Biblical, Critical Analysis, Mind

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• Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.

  Bill Vaughan

  Power, Band, Drumming

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• Philo of Alexandria introduced in the first century what has been described as the 'Hellenizing of the Old Testament,' or the allegorical method of exegesis. By this, as Erdmann observes, the Bible narrative was found to contain a deeper, and particularly an allegorical interpretation, in addition to its literal interpretation; this was not conscious disingenuousness but a natural mode of amalgamating the Greek philosophic with the Hebraic doctrines.

  Philo

  Greek, Alexandria, Firsts

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• I read, read enormously on all different fields of Islamic thought, from philosophy to Islamic literature, poetry, exegeses, knowledge of the Hadith, the teachings of the prophet. That's how I trained myself. And then I was appointed imam by a Sufi master from Istanbul, Turkey.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Philosophy, Islamic, Teaching

  "Creating A New Vision Of Islam In America". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 9, 2012.

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