retain and explain
English
Verb
retain and explain (third-person singular simple present retains and explains, present participle retaining and explaining, simple past and past participle retained and explained)
- (policy) To preserve historical material regarded as problematic (such as statues), with appropriate contextual explanation, rather than destroying it or attempting to erase it from history.
- 2010, J. I. Packer, Gary A. Parrett, Grounded in the Gospel: Building Believers the Old-Fashioned Way (page 31)
- [W]e have opted in this book to use the word catechesis rather than substitute something in its place. Our strategy is to retain and explain, rather than to reject and replace.
- 2022, Kevin Coffee, Museums and Social Responsibility
- The Roosevelt Memorial contest is parallel in time but also distinctly different from the 'retain and explain' position of the Conservative UK government regarding British colonialist monuments.
- 2010, J. I. Packer, Gary A. Parrett, Grounded in the Gospel: Building Believers the Old-Fashioned Way (page 31)
References
- Press release: New legal protection for England’s heritage