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errancy - definition and meaning
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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun
from The Century Dictionary.
noun noun
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun
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noun error ; fallibility noun Pope is not infallible
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noun noun
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If it has to be precisely a claim to "errancy " in so many words, that might be harder.
Classic Liberal? James F. McGrath 2009
It is true that signs must be qualified by matter - we must recognize their material autonomy (and, hence, their "errancy ") - but, I'm claiming, it is perhaps to recognize the semiological character of matter itself.
the church and postmodern culture: conversation 2010
It is true that signs must be qualified by matter - we must recognize their material autonomy (and, hence, their "errancy ") - but, I'm claiming, it is perhaps to recognize the semiological character of matter itself.
the church and postmodern culture: conversation 2010
Maybe my roots are just too conservative but I'm just uncomfortable with the language of 'errancy ' when it comes to Scripture.
finitum non capax infiniti 2009
If you serve long enough, errors are inevitable, but leaders should be judged not for their errancy , but how they handle mistakes when they do come up.
Greg Lukianoff: Censoring Joss Whedon's Firefly and the Chancellor Who Cried Wolf Greg Lukianoff 2011
Whether "fiscal errancy " includes tax incentives like the IBC is yet to be made clear, but even the policy world's language of crisis resolution tips discussion toward the punitive and away from the genuinely recuperative.
Portugal's Unrepentant Debtor Raymond Zhong 2011
If the inerrancy position is fraught with danger and can easily become ludicrous in practice, is not the errancy hermeneutic just if not more fraught with danger and ludicrous in practice?
The Inerrancy of Ecclesiastes 9:2-6 James F. McGrath 2010
The revelation of sexual errancy was juicier than flour hoarding.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
The revelation of sexual errancy was juicier than flour hoarding.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
At this point I don't agree with the idea of biblical errancy , though my own view of inerrancy probably isn't precisely what you find in the formal statements affirming this view.
The Inerrancy of Ecclesiastes 9:2-6 James F. McGrath 2010
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