Sentences with phrase «in biblical literalism»

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.

Not exact matches

The early pietists did not engage in critical biblical study or directly challenge the literalism of the official teaching.

In my experience the reformed traditions (baptists, presbyterian, and many independent churches; the puritans and anabaptists also came from this branch) can tend toward legalism; the pentecostal traditions (Church of Christ, Assembly of God, vineyard, many independent churches etc.) can tend toward biblical literalism and a bit of a herd mentality; the lutheran tradition can tend toward antinomianism, while the anglican and wesleyan traditions do the best at shooting down the middle (though I am admittedly biased).

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Orthodoxy was synonymous in his thought with conventional Christianity (biblical literalism, fundamentalism, Lutheranism, and Calvinism).

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

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

We must rediscover myth and symbol in reading biblical texts, and help our people to escape the leaden touch of literalism.

My friend Nathaniel comments that he'd like to see a «Jael With Her Tent Peg,» but I think that's expecting a level of biblical literalism, to coin a phrase which was already in existence and didn't really need coining... Anyway, you tell me.

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.

Biblical traditionalism and literalism are even more marked in the independent churches and in denominations rooted in the Pentecostal tradition, and similar currents are also found among Roman Catholics.

While self - righteousness avoidance certainly affects our selective literalism, we also have good reasons for not condemning one another for the more ubiquitous biblical violations (again, real or perceived) in our culture.

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.

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.

In either case, it results in a flight from religious pluralism and an insistence on rigidity of belief, conformity with biblical literalism, acceptance of often sterile dogmIn either case, it results in a flight from religious pluralism and an insistence on rigidity of belief, conformity with biblical literalism, acceptance of often sterile dogmin a flight from religious pluralism and an insistence on rigidity of belief, conformity with biblical literalism, acceptance of often sterile dogma.

Charles Darwin rejected both the positivistic outlook and the biblical literalism that were championed in his day.

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.

Such a dismissive attitude toward Christian orthodoxy, fueled by a supposed adherence to «biblical literalism,» is an obstacle to genuine unity in the Body of Christ.

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

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.

The team found that in accordance to their expectations, individual biblical literalism is negatively associated with college completion and congregational biblical literalism is negatively related to college attainment.