Sentences with word «literalistic»

Clearly, contemporary cosmology and evolutionary biology require the rejection of certain accounts of creation based on literalistic readings of Genesis.

Christian Fiction often takes a strong literalistic view of the Bible and applies that outlook to the narrative.

One can affirm a bodily resurrection without such literalistic smugness; however, such a dogmatic insistence on a bodily resurrection is often indicative of a vague grasp of the problems involved.

Rather it would appear that miracle freed from literalistic and unscientific connotations and re-interpreted in the light of fundamental experience is an essential to significant religion.

In a recent study» of the evangelical impact on the Victorians titled The Call to Seriousness, Ian Bradley contends that the decline of evangelicalism into narrow bigotry may be dated from about 1860 and correlated with the rise of a fascination with prophecy and a more literalistic use of the Scripture.

Or must we conclude that he was as literalistic in this matter as the early Church, and expected a world historical act of God at a chronological point of time in the near future, as the Church expected her Lord's return?

The loyalty to the Bible that marked early Protestantism found representation both in the older literalistic approach and in the new attempt to find creative ways to bring the Biblical vision of life to bear in American society.

Too many theological and literalistic hoops to jump through to make them jive with anything coming close to reality.

There is, further, a growing network of fundamentalist private schools dedicated to an antievolutionist and biblically literalistic creationist position.

However, for Jews and Christians not committed to a narrowly literalistic interpretation of Scripture, that kind of direct and clear «cut contradiction between scientific facts and religious doctrines does not exist.

It was, in hard or in softer forms first, quite literalistic.

No story in the New Testament gives literalistic people more difficulty than this one.

The authors often cite scripture, but, as in this case, do not make their hermeneutic explicit, seeming to apply a very literalistic method without much benefit from biblical scholarship.

While there are in the Old Testament prophetic proclamations of a Messianic Age to come, only by the most narrow and literalistic special pleading can the specific foretelling of Jesus be defended.

Those who want to interpret Scripture «literalistic ally» must be consistent in their approach.

John likes to show how the Jewish literalistic misunderstanding of his words often has unintended insight.)

Even when the doctrine of original sin has been purged of literalistic errors, Niebuhr's approach has been rejected by the Pelagian temper that the free will can attain righteousness.

This makes it possible, unless one is so slavishly literalistic as to overlook all the situation - conditioned elements, to find a common pattern of Christian morality in the New Testament.

By the 12th century, Bynum maintains, Western thought reached its materialistic and literalistic apogee.

Like medieval representations, these images are materialistic, literalistic promises of perfection.

I emphasize «analogously» because of the nonsensical implications resulting from a strictly literalistic transference to God of our mundane experience of causation when referring to the sense that our universe is ultimately cared for and impregnated with purpose.

Its authors never expected to provide literalistic guidelines for the 20th century.

Spinoza should have assessed Christianity by the same skeptical, literalistic standard that he applied to Judaism.

These include a much greater respect for the authority of scripture, especially in matters of morality; a willingness to accept the Bible as an inspired text and a tendency to literalistic readings; a special interest in supernatural elements of scripture, such as miracles, visions and healings; a belief in the continuing power of prophecy; and a veneration for the Old Testament, which is often considered as authoritative as the New.

For it is Gilead's denial of history, its own historicity and any reading of Scripture other than the literalistic that make the regime a social menace.

Although many of McCabe's arguments and conclusions appear idiosyncratic today, for he was committed to a literalistic, moralistic, and perfectionistic evangelical theology, 2 his analysis of foreknowledge and contingency still raises valid issues.

I think your trinity only presents a problem when it's a literalistic interpretation of the Bible, an authoritarian church, and an unhealthy concept of God.

To be sure, McCabe wanted to minimize the element of constraint as much as possible, but he felt obliged by his commitment to a literalistic exegesis of biblical prophecy and by a desire to preserve as much of the divine omnipotence as possible to admit that some choices are forced upon persons.

As previously noted, such difficulties constitute a problem for faith only if one assumes a literalistic, mechanical view of inspiration.

Others confidently assert that only their literalistic interpretations really count as believing the Bible to be true.

If we read the texts in a literalistic manner, it can sound as though week by week it is God who is undergoing change toward us.

Others confidently assert that only their literalistic interpretations really count as believing...

So the problems multiply, both the difficulty of determining the meaning of first century categories to first - century man and the natural tendency of a twentieth - century man to read them in terms of his own understanding, literalistic, existentialistic or whatever, adding to their number.

N. T. Wright, rejecting any literalistic notion of a rapture, i.e., of a sudden supernatural event removing individuals from this earth, interprets «being taken» as being taken in judgment.

In sum, electronic church broadcasters rarely speak to audiences outside their natural constituency, people already highly «religious» in terms of literalistic and charismatic beliefs.

But when you get to the Fourth Gospel I am always impressed by the way in which, although it seems to be literalistic, yet when it makes us look at the arrangement of the grave clothes, to which you referred, it doesn't suggest at all that there is a body which has emerged: in such a way, I mean, that if Pontius Pilate had happened to be walking past the garden at the right time he would have seen it happen.