Word Finder - historicity

definition

Historical quality or authenticity based on fact.

definition

The characteristic of having appeared or developed in history, as opposed to being natural or universal.

example

the historicity of ideas, practices, or institutions

They shall mix equally with Brahmans and beggars, with the 1 The historicity of this convention, not now usually admitted by scholars, is maintained by Bishop Copleston of Calcutta in his I Buddhism, Primitive and Present (1908).

But the authenticity of the passages describing the altar of incense in the tabernacle, and the historicity of the corresponding altar in Solomon's temple, are matters of keen dispute among critics.

For these three reasons, the accuracy of the burial story supports the historicity of the empty tomb.

Both bodies of exposition represent the traditional principle at work in the sub-apostolic age, making for the preservation in relative purity, over against merely subjective interpretations - those of the Gnostics in particular - of the historic or original sense of Christ's teaching, just as Ignatius stood for the historicity of the facts of His earthly career in their plain, natural sense.

Any attempt to reject its basic historicity even in matters of detail must now appear absurd.

Belief in the Bible's historicity prior to this time is based mostly on faith.

Hershel Shanks is a magazine editor, who feels he has to defend the historicity of the bible against the attacks of scholars.

Modern evidentialist apologists have made exaggerated claims regarding our ability to verify the historicity of the Gospels.

My point, however, in no way assumes the historicity of Matthew's guard story.

Any attempt to reject its basic historicity, even in matters of detail, must now appear absurd.

I don't intend that this be a lesson in biblical historicity.

Such a view would not take seriously the radical historicity of both human existence and divine revelation.

The ruin places under question the notion of history as a sequential narrative, whilst at the same time insisting on its own historicity.

Yet the great bulk of the sayings remain substantially authentic; if the historicity of certain words and acts is here refused with unusual assurance, that of other sayings and deeds is established with stronger proofs; and the redemptive conception of the Passion and the sacramental interpretation of the Last Supper are found to spring up promptly and legitimately from our Lord's work and words, to saturate the Pauline and Johannine writings, and even to constitute an element of all three synoptic Gospels.

In it Watt argues for the historicity of the satanic verses.

The site of the cities, the historicity of the events narrated of them and the nature of the catastrophe that destroyed them, are matters of hot dispute.

The raising of Lazarus, in appearance a massive, definitely localized historical fact, requires a similar interpretation, unless we would, in favour of the direct historicity of a story peculiar to a profoundly allegorical treatise, ruin the historical trustworthiness of the largely historical Synoptists in precisely their most complete and verisimilar part.

Meyer suspects the historicity of the first reign, of five years.

The third volume of the series denied the historicity of Christ.