Sentences with phrase «with biblical literalism»

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.

His journey yields unexpected epiphanies and struggles, and highlights the challenges associated with biblical literalism.

Not exact matches

America has gone insane, and Biblical literalism, fundamentalist Christianity, call it whatever you like, IMO, has a lot to do with it.

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.

One traditional view that is very popular today, and that we must deal with before proceeding, is Biblical literalism or inerrancy.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.