Sentences with phrase «of biblical literalism»

The fallacy of Biblical literalism has been disproven by scientists time and again.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Not exact matches

By abolishing slavery and ordaining women, millions of Protestants have gone far beyond biblical literalism.

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

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

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).

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

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.

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.

Biblical literalism denies the centrality of Jesus the Christ.

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

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

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.

Literalism diverts attention from, as well as flattening out, the symbolic depth and multidimensionality of the biblical texts.

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

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

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.

The author looks at why we can not simply assert the truth of the Bible over our modern common sense and shows that Biblical literalism / inerrancy is an approach to the Scriptures that is unacceptable both to our reason and to our faith.

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

My third prediction is that the word «evangelical» will go the way of «fundamentalism» as its adherents become increasingly homogonous and as the word becomes associated with dogmatism regarding politics, science, women's roles, homosexuality, salvation, and biblical literalism.

On the other hand, biblical literalism and, to even a larger extent, the authority of Aristotelian cosmology retarded the acceptance of the work of Copernicus and Galileo.

Death Before the Fall: Biblical Literalism and the Problem of Animal Suffering by Ronald E. Osborn

Furthermore, there are first - rank theologians and biblical scholars who, though they have rejected the crude literalism of a descent of Christ through the clouds as the mythological product of a prescientific age, nevertheless use the language of a second coming to designate the final consummation of the kingdom.

For more on selective literalism, but with a fun twist, check out my book, A Year of Biblical Womanhood.

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.»

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 dogma.

It is still taking interpreters of biblical literature too long to let go of 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.

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.

The literalism was dictated by their firm conviction as Christians that every word of the biblical text was literally inspired by God.

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

«They tend to be less conservative on homosexuality even than European leaders, and less conservative on tithing and biblical literalism than the rest of the global south.»

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.

Using data from the U.S. Congregational Life Survey, a national sample of religious congregations and members, Stroope and his team, composed of two researchers from Hope College and Baylor University, measured the dependent variable of college completion and the independent variables of individual biblical literalism and congregational biblical literalism.

But there's also bitterness and stridency, as the restless spirit of «Like a Rolling Stone» stops dead on the Biblical literalism of «Solid Rock.»

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.