dehellenize
A formal academic and theological verb meaning to strip away Hellenistic (ancient Greek) philosophical influence from a text, institution, or body of thought.
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A formal academic and theological verb meaning to strip away Hellenistic (ancient Greek) philosophical influence from a text, institution, or body of thought. The term appears prominently in debates about early Christian theology — e.g. whether the Gospel was distorted by Greek metaphysics — and in postcolonial discussions of cultural identity.
The theologian argued that we must dehellenize our reading of the New Testament to recover its Semitic roots.
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(US) Remove aspects of Greekness.
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