harmonistic
Americanadjective
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pertaining to a harmonist or harmony.
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pertaining to the collation and harmonizing of parallel passages, as of the Gospels.
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Thus tradition gives invaluable material for the knowledge of the conflict of opinions in the first centuries, a strife the sharpness of which has been blunted in later times by a most resourceful harmonistic method.
From Mohammedanism Lectures on Its Origin, Its Religious and Political Growth, and Its Present State by Hurgronje, C. Snouck
But harmonistic considerations do not need to detain us at present.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke by Maclaren, Alexander
The alteration of the traditions is thus justified by a harmonistic theology.
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Jastrow, Morris
New Interpolations, on the other hand, are abundant, most of them being due to harmonistic or other assimilation, fortunately capricious and incomplete.
From The Revision Revised by Burgon, John William
This attitude is typical of the middle ages, which appealed to authority in philosophy as well as in theology, and hence developed a harmonistic attitude in the presence of conflicting authorities.
From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Husik, Isaac
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