Sentences with phrase «leaden literalism»

You wanted to argue that this couldn't be true, but not simply to respond with a kind of leaden literalism — God really is in his heaven and really sits on a throne.

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