Sentences with phrase «biblical literalism»

There are four serious problems with Biblical literalism: (1) it denies the centrality of Christ; (2) it requires a concept of divine inspiration that denies the authors» humanity; (3) it requires that we believe that the Bible doesn't mean what it says; and (4) it stands in opposition to faith in God.

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.

In presenting this point of view I am not discussing the untenable position of biblical literalism which holds that man's nature is corrupted by the sin of a generic ancestor, Adam.

The article, titled, «Social Context and College Completion in the United States: The Role of Congregational Biblical Literalism,» will be published in the upcoming edition of Sociological Perspectives.

Among evangelicals, for example, belief in biblical literalism, church attendance, and identification with fundamentalism or other sectarian religious movements defined these groups, while among Catholics, we used traditional Catholic beliefs, church attendance and confession, and identification with «traditional» or «progressive» movements in the Church.

Biblical literalism requires an understanding of divine inspiration that denies the humanity of the authors and defies common sense.

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

Biblical literalism denies the centrality of Jesus the Christ.

The threat of natural selection is largely philosophical: It calls Biblical literalism into doubt and undermines the argument that humans are somehow distinct from the rest of the animal kingdom.

I guess the next step will be to baptize everyone who is born in this country in the river of Biblical literalism before they can have equal rights.

Biblical literalism maintains that the whole Bible is the Word of God because it is divinely inspired.

In the final analysis Biblical literalism stands in opposition to faith in God and worship of God, for it replaces these with idolatry of the Bible.

Confronted with undeniable contradictions if we take the words of the Bible in their normal understanding, many advocates of Biblical literalism choose to defend the Bible's inerrancy by abandoning its literal meaning in this way.

It only has traction if you subscribe to the three tiered universe of the Middle Ages and fundamental biblical literalism.

Of course, McCabe's biblical literalism made such examples seem weightier than they really were.

For one thing, Campbell's stark biblical literalism led to disagreements over many aspects of church life and ministerial order.

It is possible to make this synthesis, though it is not possible to amalgamate biblical literalism and proof - texting with mechanical impersonality.

His criticism of biblical literalism drove him back to an acceptance of «biblical realism» (to use his own phrase), to the biblical answer to sin, and the biblical affirmation of God's grace in Christ.

Modern American evangelicalism emerged in the late 19th century, built around biblical literalism and an emphasis on human sin and redemption.

There is, therefore, no long - range political advantage to be gained by an effort to wrap Israel's security in a blanket of evangelical biblical literalism.

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.

What once would have seemed like an alien Eastern invasion of Christian musical space — a mystical form of biblical literalism transposed into mesmerizing vibrations — has become an acceptable form of meditation in the Evangelical community.

If the latter are based upon a selective biblical literalism, the former are rooted in familiar stereotypes.

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.

Creationism ranges from biblical literalism to «intelligent design,» which disputes natural selection theory.

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.»

(My second book, A Year of Biblical Womanhood, deals with biblical literalism, gender issues, and me being a crazy person for year.)

Biblical literalism requires that we believe that the Bible doesn't mean what it says.

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

Not only is this not a faithful approach, but it also means that Biblical literalism denies the very literal truth of the Bible which it purports to defend.

It is the aftermath and heir of 18th - century rural revival movements, The Great Awakenings / Disappointments, and the birth of Biblical Literalism in America.

America has gone insane, and Biblical literalism, fundamentalist Christianity, call it whatever you like, IMO, has a lot to do with it.

One traditional view that is very popular today, and that we must deal with before proceeding, is Biblical literalism or inerrancy.

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

Only the naiveté of biblical literalism would allow anyone to think that.

Even in educated circles the possibility of more sophisticated theologies of creation is easily obscured by burning straw effigies of biblical literalism.

One of the ironies of biblical literalism is that it shares so largely in the reductionist and literalist spirit of the age.

Biblical literalism, in its treatment of the days of creation, substitutes a modern arithmetical reading for the original symbolic one.

McCabe fell prey to these dualisms because of his biblical literalism and theological perfectionism, neither of which necessarily undermines his arguments respecting human freedom and divine foreknowledge.

Bill Nye is talking about Young Earth Creationism, or Biblical Literalism, not all religious belief.

As the article indicates Young Earth Creationism, or Biblical literalism, is inconsistent with the scientific evidence available.

Pentacostalism in Black Africa, emphasizing personal faith, biblical literalism, visions, prophecy, and apocalyptic visions of extrahistorical justice, may be inspired to send missionaries to the white, affluent, «pagans» of the North.

Kind of a stake through the heart of biblical literalism, isn't it?