hermeneutics
- n the branch of theology that deals with principles of exegesis
- But more than that, this is a novel about people who have wasted massive chunks of their lives--Duncan in sterile rock-critic hermeneutics (he's like the worst-case-scenario future .
- They are usually young, steeped in the Bible and hip to the latest twists of German hermeneutics, at home both in academe and in the churches of the slum-ridden "inner city.
- If they are interpreting the Bible, hermeneutics is the term.