| 释义 |
transhiˈstorical, a.
[f. trans- 4 + historical a.]
(Having significance) that transcends the historical; universal or eternal.
1909W. R. Inge in Q. Rev. Apr. 602 It is not the province of faith to flout scientific knowledge, nor to contaminate the material on which science works by intercalating what M. Le Roy calls ‘transhistorical symbols’—myths in fact—which do not become true by being recognised as false, as the new apologetic seems to suggest. 1963J. A. T. Robinson Honest to God i. 24 In order to express the ‘trans-historical’ character of the historical event of Jesus of Nazareth, the New Testament writers used the ‘mythological’ language of pre-existence, incarnation, [etc.]. 1976T. Eagleton Crit. & Ideology v. 178 Even where literary science would deem a work to have ‘justly’ survived, there is no call for materialist embarrassment about the ‘metaphysical’ quality of such transhistorical status. |
