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Meaning of "anagogical" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ANAGOGICAL

ˌænəˈɡɒdʒɪkəl


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ANAGOGICAL

noun
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Anagogical is an adjective.
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WHAT DOES ANAGOGICAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Anagoge

Anagoge, sometimes spelled anagogy, is a Greek word suggesting a "climb" or "ascent" upwards. The anagogical is a method of spiritual interpretation of literal statements or events, especially scriptural exegesis that detects allusions to the afterlife. Certain medieval theologians describe four methods of interpreting the Scriptures: literal/historical, allegorical, tropological, and anagogical. Hugh of St. Victor, in De scripturis et scriptoribus sacris, distinguished anagoge from allegory. In an allegory, a visible fact is signified by another visible fact. On the other hand, with respect to an anagoge, from a visible fact, an invisible is declared. The four methods of interpretation point in four different directions: The literal/historical backwards to the past, the allegoric forwards to the future, the tropological downwards to the moral/human, and the anagogic upwards to the spiritual/heavenly.

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANAGOGICAL»

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Embodiment and Virtue in Gregory of Nyssa: An Anagogical ...
This book, then, serves as a reminder of the profoundly otherworldly cast of Gregory's theology.
Hans Boersma, Hans Boersma, 2013
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A Short Introduction to Hermeneutics
... the moral, and the anagogical. (This last term, anagogical, is derived from Greek and means generally religious, spiritual, or often mystical. It refers here to an understanding of spiritual mysteries and, 46 Short Introduction to Hermeneutics.
David Jasper, 2004
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Carthusian Spirituality: The Writings of Hugh of Balma and ...
And that is what the circular and anagogical movement is like.125 3. The Anagogical and Speculative Direct Movement [Step Eleven] In the third movement, or path, namely the rectilinear one mentioned above, one enjoys and seeks God in ...
Dennis D. Martin, 1997
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The Premodern Condition: Medievalism and the Making of Theory
Medievalism and the Making of Theory Bruce Holsinger. TABLE 1 The Levels of Meaning, Henri de Lubac to Roland Barthes Exégèse médiévale (1959–63) 1. HISTORICAL 2. ALLEGORICAL 3. MORAL 4. ANAGOGICAL “Comment parler à ...
Bruce Holsinger, 2005
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Living Beauty: The Art of Liturgy
A theodramatics requires the element of an anagogical imagination. The an- agogical imagination highlights a unitive dimension that is often ignored in a theological aesthetics. The theological dimension in a theological aesthetics is not only ...
Alejandro Garcia-Rivera, Alex García-Rivera, Thomas J. Scirghi, 2007
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Flannery O'Connor: The Obedient Imagination
The action or gesture I'm talking about would have to be on the anagogical level, that is, the level which has to do with the Divine life and our participation in it. It would be a gesture that transcended any neat allegory that might have been ...
Sarah Gordon, 2000
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Hermeneutics. Method and Methodology: Method and Methodology
As for moralis quid agas, quid speras anagogia, the moral meaning of the Scriptures, i.e., the moral significance of the events reported in the verbal historical meaning, can be discovered by moral interpretation; the anagogical meaning of the ...
Thomas M. Seebohm, 2007
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Science Fiction and the Prediction of the Future: Essays on ...
CAROL. MACKAY. Science fiction missed its chance to predict the Internet. Certainly the World Wide Web as we know it did not become part of the genre's mythology of the future. But looking at some of the anagogical myths of science fiction ...
Gary Westfahl,, Wong Kin Yuen, Amy Kit-sze Chan, 2011
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Struggles Over the Word: Race and Religion in O'Connor, ...
For O'Connor, the relationship between her fiction and the Bible is an anagogical one, revealing the link between the known world and the supernatural reality embodied in Christ's incarnation, His redemptive death, and His resurrection.
Timothy Paul Caron, 2000
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Dante's Paradiso: the flowering of the self : an ...
This book interprets the Paradiso on the level of the anagogy, the fourth level in Dante's fourfold allegory.
John Saly, 1989

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ANAGOGICAL»

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Priest by the Cross
... the words of the heavenly oracle according to their historical and allegorical and tropological (that is, moral) and anagogical sense” (1.199). «First Things, Feb 15»
2
What Should We Think About Immigration Amnesty? Let's Ask A …
(This is the anagogical sense.) Or maybe not. But this, at least, is a sketch of an exegesis that at least counts as Christian exegesis, taking ... «Patheos, Nov 14»
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Zanu-PF and Mugabe's Seven Deadly Political Sins
In the anagogical sense, the sins, as referred to by Dante, relate to Zanu PF's journey towards death, at the hands of Mugabe. Deadly Sin One - ... «AllAfrica.com, Nov 14»
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God, Guilt, and Aronofsky's Noah, Part 1
I went into the movie assuming that he was not a believer in any dogmatic way, was not intending the movie to work on an anagogical level. «Patheos, Jul 14»
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A celebration of Grahame and Inge King
Unlike much spiritual art which engages with the anagogical dimension and becomes preoccupied with death and with eschatological themes, ... «Sydney Morning Herald, May 14»
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How Dante Saved My Life
Scholars call this method anagogical, meaning that it teaches by leading one to arrive at truth on one's own. Dante does this throughout the ... «The American Conservative, Mar 14»
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You Must Read Kevin Barry
The action or gesture I'm talking about would have to be on the anagogical level, that is, the level which has to do with the Divine life and our ... «The Millions, Sep 13»
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The “Dignity and Vocation of Women” in the life of Saint Edith Stein …
I do not think this is appropriate, since such a gesture reverses the actual anagogical (not analogical!) meaning of communion as proceeding from God and then ... «Catholic News Agency, Jul 13»
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Opulence Fit for the King of Kings
... an anagogical manner"—positing the church as both the earthly presence of the New Jerusalem and the eschatological preview of heaven. «Wall Street Journal, Oct 12»
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The Unbearable Badness of Ayn Rand
... the embodiment of human reason); the moral or didactic, for teaching the reader; and finally the anagogical, which opens spiritual or mystical ... «Patheos, Oct 12»
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