Sentences with phrase «biblical literalism as»

The defense, both actual and fictional, wanted to isolate an ignorant, biblical literalism as the only kind of religion that disputes evolution.

What is the alternative to Biblical literalism as a way of approaching the Bible?

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Biblical literalism, the Bible as the absolute word of God, he thought rather ridiculous.

The theological role of the Bible is controversial in many Quaker circles, especially since Quakerism acts as a last desperate handhold for many Christians who feel abused by Biblical literalism and fundamentalism.

Literalism diverts attention from, as well as flattening out, the symbolic depth and multidimensionality of the biblical texts.

Biblical literalism is a powerful force today; it tends to imprison people in attitudes that were suitable enough when science and technology were little dreamt of but which fail to illuminate a society in which, for instance, it is desirable, because of the effects of modern hygiene on death rates, for women to bear, on the average, perhaps a third as many infants as were appropriate two or three thousand or even two hundred years ago, a society in which war might mean something like the end of the species, or at least vastly closer to that than any war of the past could be.

I define selective literalism as the tendency to elevate certain biblical principles over others in order to best accommodate one's personal opinions.

My third prediction is that the word «evangelical» will go the way of «fundamentalism» as its adherents become increasingly homogonous and as the word becomes associated with dogmatism regarding politics, science, women's roles, homosexuality, salvation, and biblical literalism.

Furthermore, there are first - rank theologians and biblical scholars who, though they have rejected the crude literalism of a descent of Christ through the clouds as the mythological product of a prescientific age, nevertheless use the language of a second coming to designate the final consummation of the kingdom.

The final result was the rejection within mainstream culture of biblical literalism with its repudiation of history, geology, and the scientific method, and an acceptance of the contributions of science, of evolution and Freudian psychology, of a «higher criticism» of the Bible, of the move from an agrarian economy to an industrial economy and its need for high technology, and of a rearrangement of political views to accommodate social planning and reform which became known in the churches as the Social Gospel.

While insisting that he was not tempted by biblical literalism, Karl Barth began his dogmatics by describing the liberal tradition of Friedrich Schleiermacher and Adolf von Harnack as «the plain destruction of Protestant theology and the Protestant church.»

Fundamentalism has been characterized by (1) vigorous resistance to developments in the world of science that appeared to contradict the Biblical text; (2) Biblical literalism; (3) individualism; (4) moralism; and (5) insistence on belief in certain «fundamentals» such as the inerrancy of the Scriptures, the virgin birth of Jesus Christ, and his second coming.

It was, then, over two decades before he published Origin of Species that Darwin replaced biblical literalism with a «more simple and sublime» theology, one in which God is viewed as ordaining that creation operate without interference, through the natural law that he established.

Bryan, today seen as a once - progressive man who nevertheless stood for chaining American education» and the American mind» to a laughable biblical literalism, was a more complex figure than that.

The literalism was dictated by their firm conviction as Christians that every word of the biblical text was literally inspired by God.

But there's also bitterness and stridency, as the restless spirit of «Like a Rolling Stone» stops dead on the Biblical literalism of «Solid Rock.»