Hermesian

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Pertaining to the theological writings of Georg Hermes, especially in the attempt to reconcile faith with Kantian reason.

   “He ended the heretical dissensions created by the Hermesian School by suspending the refractory Hermesian professors Braun and Achterfeldt of Bonn; and he reorganized the theological faculty of that university by calling in as professors Dieringer and Martin, men of unsuspected orthodoxy.”

2. isim A follower of the theology of Georg Hermes.

   “Hermesians declare that what was condemned at Rome was not Hermes' teaching, but a libellous caricature of it. He himself always protested that his system did not touch any point of the Catholic faith.”

3. sıfat Pertaining to the Hermetic Corpus, Hermes Trismegistus, or the associated form of mysticism.

   “These are the figures of such of the celestial hieroglyphics, as we have been able to find and make out; and now we are going to represent the three other classes, according to promise, with all the different figures of the Hermesian alphabets, or hieroglyphics.”

4. isim Any of the Gnostics who contributed to writing the Hermetic Corpus.

   “Our object is only to mention the most celebrated of these alphabets of the Hermesians, ( or hieroglyphics, ) and to indicate their particular qualities; for nobody is capable of giving a satisfactory explanation of them all.”

5. sıfat Pertaining to the Greek god Hermes.

   “Near-synonym: mercurial”