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Here Grice appears to be aware for the first time that we might say something about what the conductor should have meant, by the rings on the bell.
Natural meaning for natural language
To cap his demolishing logic, fray Luis de Leon raises another possible objection: if the Hebrew tsammah actually meant "vulva," did Jerome have any choice but to resort to a euphemism?
"Your dove-eyes among your hairlocks:" Language and authority in fray Luis de Leon's respuesta que desde su proision da a sus emulos (*)
It is meant to establish a new historical periodization by occulting the war for independence in order to justify a new war of decolonization.
Islamism and the recolonization of Algeria
The primary aim of talking about Paul's theology is to give a descriptive presentation of Paul's Christian faith and, above all, determine what Paul meant when he wrote to the Christians whom he immediately addressed.
Getting to know Paul
what's that old poem of Jones's, you know, "we are unsaved and unsaved," and that ends with "daylight can't save them and we own the night." In a sense, cultural studies can't save us, and perhaps we have yet to do a historical, analytical, coalitioned accounting for how we got here, and what these past 25 years have meant to us as we face what is in many ways a completely frightening future.
Hybridity in the Center: an interview with Houston A. Baker, Jr
In other words, Paul's problem with Jewish law is that it limited interaction between Jews and Gentiles; the observance of dietary laws, for example, meant that Jews would not or could not eat with Gentiles.
Is Paul the Father of Misogyny and Antisemitism?
It cannot be defended by arguing that "fruit of the earth" is no longer idiomatic to modern ears, for we still use "the fruit of your labor" and "fruitless efforts" and "the fruit of thy womb," and even commercially "fruit of the loom." In the Latin it is obvious that the two prayers are meant to be parallel in structure and wording and content.
"Earth" at mass
In pursuit of an ideally transparent text -- or a text that approximates that text -- Erasmus unintentionally ends up staging a loss of textual origin in which technique and practice point back to themselves (back to praxis) and away from the end that they are meant to achieve.
Erasmus and the hermeneutics of linguistic praxis
While these names imply strength in English, they meant nothing in other languages and were hard to pronounce in their English spelling.
What's in a name?
Darboven may not quote Wittgenstein, but she is a truly intellectual artist, for she has understood what he meant when he said a language game was a kind of imagination of life--a matter of both.
Hanne Darboven
Since such a claim universalizes the particular Christian belief about Jesus into an ontological reality, all efforts to be open to the other become impossible because there is always in such a christology a universalizing, supersessionist claim -- what Rosemary Ruether meant when she said that antisemitism is the left hand of christology.
Re-Envisioning Christianity: A New Era in Christian Theological Interpretation of Christian Texts
The preachers of the Protestant denominations that I was familiar with growing up used to talk about "full-time Christian service," by which they meant being a minister or a missionary, which effectively removed from everybody else the possibility of being a "full-time Christian."
Care for the earth is a local call
I used "end" in a narrative sense, and meant to declare simply the end of a certain story.
Art after the end of art
of New Words as "A respelling of media, meant to represent a common colloquial pronunciation of the word." It is considered humorous or dismissive slang, and "was perhaps partly a result of public debate about the role of the media (especially the intrusion of journalists from the popular press into people's private lives)...."
Is there a mediatrician in the house?
My use of the term archaeology is meant to be a symbolic appropriation of the term as a metaphor for the risk-filled "digging " for cultural and sociopolitical elements that point to a community's thought and way of life.
Black Theology, Black Bodies, and Pedagogy