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Allegorical interpretation of the Bible is an interpretive method that assumes that the Bible has various levels of meaning and tends to focus on the spiritual sense, which includes the allegorical sense, the moral (or tropological) sense, and the anagogical sense, as opposed to the literal sense.
In Judaism, bible hermeneutics notably uses midrash, a Jewish method of interpreting the Hebrew Bible and the rules which structure the Jewish laws. [1] The early allegorizing trait in the interpretation of the Hebrew Bible figures prominently in the massive oeuvre of a prominent Hellenized Jew of Alexandria, Philo Judaeus, whose allegorical reading of the Septuagint synthesized the ...
C. S. Lewis writes in Mere Christianity that pride is the "anti-God" state, the position in which the ego and the self are directly opposed to God: "Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through Pride that Lucifer became wicked: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God ...
Allegory of pride, from c. 1590 –1630, engraving, 22.3 cm × 16.6 cm, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City). Pride is a human secondary emotion that constitutes a sense of satisfaction with one's identity, performance, or accomplishments.
Tropological reading or "moral sense" is a Christian tradition, theory, and practice of interpreting the figurative meaning of the Bible. It is part of biblical exegesis and one of the Four senses of Scripture.
It’s certainly not the first time he’s weighed in on the subject of God or biblical allegory, but this latest effort is the first time he’s dedicated a whole book to it.
Christian allegory may refer to: Biblical allegory. Allegorical interpretation of the Bible; Christian allegory in Christian literature; Medieval allegory; See also
The system of Medieval allegory began in the Early Church as a method for synthesizing the seeming discontinuities between the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and the New Testament. The Church studied both testaments and saw each as equally inspired by God , yet the Old Testament contained discontinuities for Christians such as the Jewish kosher ...