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In his book The hermeneutic of hope, he recalled how he had fought against a view prevalent among many faithful at the time that "we are born to suffer".

The book became a manifesto for evangelical feminism, using a hermeneutic analysis of the Bible, interpreting the text by noting the context in which it was written and extrapolating its tenets to modern life.

At this point in the book, this looks less like a hermeneutic move than like an expected reality.

I’ll grant that “hermeneutic” isn’t an everyday word, and the way it was used in Christopher Buskirk’s April 18 op-ed, “The GOP’s political renaissance,” didn’t lend itself to understanding through context.

Wrapped in hermeneutic enigmas, the objects emanate a poignant mix of beauty and mystery.