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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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 Isaac Husik
As regards harmonistic difficulties of the Old and New Testaments, he assumes the same confident tone of bold assertion without feeling any obligation to notice the solutions that have been suggested.
From The Faith of the Millions (2nd series) by George Tyrrell
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 John William Burgon
The Combination of Luke and John We now have to deal with the most perplexing question in harmonistic study, the proper disposal of the mass of material furnished by Luke in 9:51-18:14.
From A Harmony of the Gospels for Students of the Life of Christ Based on the Broadus Harmony in the Revised Version by Archibald Thomas Robertson
The alteration of the traditions is thus justified by a harmonistic theology.
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow
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