What is the difference between thesis and exegesis?
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A statement supported by arguments.
A written essay, especially one submitted for a university degree.
* Goldsmith
(logic) An affirmation, or distinction from a supposition or hypothesis.
(music) The accented part of the measure, expressed by the downward beat; the opposite of arsis.
(poetry) The depression of the voice in pronouncing the syllables of a word.
(poetry) The part of the metrical foot upon which such a depression falls.
An exposition or explanation of a text, especially a religious one.
* 1885 , Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson (original translators and editors), Arthur Cleveland Coxe (editor of American edition), Philip Schaff (also credited as editor),
* 1913 , Francis Aveling, Rationalism'', article in '' ,
* 1940 , , ,
As nouns the difference between thesis and exegesis
is that thesis is a statement supported by arguments while exegesis is an exposition or explanation of a text, especially a religious one.thesis
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Noun
(theses)- I told them of the grave, becoming, and sublime deportment they should assume upon this mystical occasion, and read them two homilies and a thesis of my own composing, to prepare them.
Derived terms
* master's thesis * doctoral thesisSee also
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* English nouns with irregular plurals ----exegesis
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(wikipedia exegesis)Noun
(exegeses)- Accordingly Athanasius complains loudly of their exegesis (Ep. Æg. 3–4'', ''cf''. Orat. ''i. 8, 52''), ''and insists'' (''id. i.'' 54, cf. already ''de Decr. 14) on the primary necessity of always conscientiously studying the circumstances of time and place, the person addressed, the subject matter, and purpose of the writer, in order not to miss the true sense.
- As with Deism and Materialism, the German Rationalism invaded the department of Biblical exegesis .
- Historical scholarship bears exclusively on interpretive reading; when it is properly subordinated as a means, its end is exegesis'; all of its techniques are of service to the grammatical art. But '''exegesis''' is not ''the'' end; nor is grammar the highest art. ' Exegesis is for the sake of a fair critical judgment, grammar for the sake of logic and rhetoric.
