Sentences with phrase «literal inerrancy»

By the fundamentalist Protestant type we mean those churches which hold to the verbal inspiration and hence the literal inerrancy of the Bible, and which defend as of vital importance certain creedal dogmas, notably the virgin birth, the blood atonement, the physical resurrection of Christ, and his visible second coming.

«It began its operations,» he wrote, «by questioning the truth of certain conceptions held by Christian people — particularly the literal inerrancy of the Bible, the obscurantist dogmas concerning the origin of the Christian revelation and a cosmological view of the origins of the universe and of man.»

Insistence on literal inerrancy, whatever its uses in arresting doctrinal laxity, leaves the LCMS vulnerable to charges of biblicist obscurantism.

Not exact matches

From Ryan Lizza's enlightening profile in The New Yorker, I learned that Michele Bachmann's influences include spiritual and political mentors who preach the literal «inerrancy» of the Bible, who warn Christians to be suspicious of ideas that come from non-Christians, who believe homosexuality is an «abomination,» who portray the pre-Civil War South as a pretty nice place for slaves and who advocate «Dominionism,» the view that Christians and only Christians should preside over earthly institutions.

He suggests that the heart of fundamentalism is not, as is often supposed, a commitment to a «literal» reading of the Bible but rather a commitment to a reading that preserves the Bible's «inerrancy» in every detail, even if its literal sense must be violated.

My list of beliefs which «faith» required included; literal creation and a young earth / universe, complete scriptural inerrancy, total abstinence from alcohol, no women in church leadership, absolutely sexually chaste outside of marriage, homosexuality equals pure abomination, and on and on the list goes.

For modern Western Christians, words like authority, inerrancy, infallibility, revelation, objective, absolute, and literal are crucial.