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ACCOMMODATION (Lat. accommodare, to make fit, from ad, to, cum, with, and modus, measure)

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 122 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: A10-ADA
ACCOMMODATION (Lat. accommodare, to make fit, from ad, to, cum, with, and modus, measure) , the process of fitting, adapting, adjusting or supplying with what is needed (e.g. housing).
In theology the
term
  "
accommodation
  " is used rather loosely to describe the employment of a word, phrase, sentence or idea, in a context other than that in which it originally occurred; the actual wording of the
quotation
  may be modified to a greater or lesser extent. Such
accommodation
 , though sometimes purely literary or stylistic, generally has the definite purpose of instruction, and is frequently used both in the New Testament and in pulpit utterances in all periods as a means of producing a reasonably accurate impression of a complicated idea in the minds of those who are for various reasons unlikely to comprehend it otherwise. There are roughly three main kinds. (I) A later Biblical passage quotes from an earlier, partly as a literary device, but also with a view to demonstration. Some-times it is plain that the writer deliberately " accommodates " a
quotation
  (cf. John xviii. 8, 9 with xvii. 12). But New Testament quotations of Old Testament predictions are often for us accommodationsstriking or forced as the case may be while the New Testament writer, " following the exegetical methods current among the Jews of his time,
Matthew
  ii. 15, 18, xxvi. 31, xxvii. 9 " (S. R. Driver in Zechariah in Century Bible, pp. 259, 271), puts them forward as arguments. To say that he is merely " describing a New Testament fact in Old Testament phraseology " may be true of the result rather than of his
design
 . (2) Much besidesin the Bibleparable, metaphor, &c.has, been called an " accommodation," or divine condescension to human weakness. (3) German 18th-century rational-ism (see APOLOGETICS) held that the Biblical writers made
great
  use of conscious accommodationintending moral common-places when they seemed to be enunciating Christian dogmas. Another expression for this, used, e.g., by J. S. Semler, is "
economy
 ," which also occurs in the kindred sense of " reserve " (or of Disciplina Arcania modern
term
  for the supposed early Catholic habit of reserving esoteric truths). Isaac Williams on Reserve in Religious Teaching, No. 8o of Tracts for the Times, made a
great
  sensation; see R. W. Church's comments in The
Oxford
 
Movement
 . Strictly, accommodation (2) or (3) modifies, in form or in substance, the content of religious belief; reserve,
from prudence or cunning, withholds part. "
Economy
  " is used in both senses.


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