The Christian Four Senses of Scripture are literal, allegorical/typological, tropological and anagogical. According to doctrine developed by the Church Fathers, the literal sense, or God-intended meaning of the words of the Bible, may also have a tropological sense: it is read figuratively as a moral reading for one's personal life.[1] For instance, in the Song of Songs (also called Canticles or Song of Solomon), which contains love songs between a woman and a man, the text can also symbolize the love between God and a believer. [2]
In the conception of the Church Fathers, the definitions of "allegory" and "tropology" were very close, until Middle Ages where the Church made a clearer distinction between allegorical spiritual meaning, tropological moral meaning and styles of interpretation.[3]
Etymologyedit
The Ancient Greek word τρόπος (tropos) meant 'turn, way, manner, style'. The term τροπολογία (tropologia) was coined from this word around the second century AD, in Hellenistic Greek, to mean 'allegorical interpretation of scripture' (and also, by the fourth century, 'figurative language' more generally).[4]
The Greek word τρόπος had already been borrowed into Classical Latin as tropus, meaning 'figure of speech', and the Latinised form of τροπολογία, tropologia, is found already in the fourth-century writing of Saint Jerome in the sense 'figurative language', and by the fifth century in sense 'moral interpretation'. This Latin term was adopted in medieval French as tropologie, and English developed the form tropology in the fifteenth century through the simultaneous influence of French and Latin.[4]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1912). "Scriptural Tropology". Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 15. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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tropological, reading, moral, sense, christian, tradition, theory, practice, interpreting, figurative, meaning, bible, part, biblical, exegesis, four, senses, scripture, contents, doctrine, etymology, also, notes, referencesdoctrine, editthe, christian, four, . 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 Contents 1 Doctrine 2 Etymology 3 See also 4 Notes 5 ReferencesDoctrine editThe Christian Four Senses of Scripture are literal allegorical typological tropological and anagogical According to doctrine developed by the Church Fathers the literal sense or God intended meaning of the words of the Bible may also have a tropological sense it is read figuratively as a moral reading for one s personal life 1 For instance in the Song of Songs also called Canticles or Song of Solomon which contains love songs between a woman and a man the text can also symbolize the love between God and a believer 2 In the conception of the Church Fathers the definitions of allegory and tropology were very close until Middle Ages where the Church made a clearer distinction between allegorical spiritual meaning tropological moral meaning and styles of interpretation 3 Etymology editThe Ancient Greek word tropos tropos meant turn way manner style The term tropologia tropologia was coined from this word around the second century AD in Hellenistic Greek to mean allegorical interpretation of scripture and also by the fourth century figurative language more generally 4 The Greek word tropos had already been borrowed into Classical Latin as tropus meaning figure of speech and the Latinised form of tropologia tropologia is found already in the fourth century writing of Saint Jerome in the sense figurative language and by the fifth century in sense moral interpretation This Latin term was adopted in medieval French as tropologie and English developed the form tropology in the fifteenth century through the simultaneous influence of French and Latin 4 See also editAllegorical interpretation of the Bible Anagoge Biblical hermeneutics Historical grammatical method Trope linguistics Notes edit Peter Byrne Leslie Houlden Leslie Houlden Companion Encyclopedia of Theology Routledge UK 2002 p 52 Joel B Green Dictionary of Scripture and Ethics Baker Academic USA 2011 p 19 Alister E McGrath Christian Theology An Introduction John Wiley amp Sons USA 2011 p 132 a b Tropology n trope n OED Online References editAttribution nbsp This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain Herbermann Charles ed 1912 Scriptural Tropology Catholic Encyclopedia Vol 15 New York Robert Appleton Company nbsp This article about biblical studies is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Tropological reading amp oldid 1190884990, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
