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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Biblical literalism
		Biblical literalism is not synonymous with biblical inerrancy.
		It is commonly taught in the most conservative Christian seminaries that certain sections of the Bible should be interpreted as literal statements of the author and are not intended as parable.
		The literal sense is the grammatical-historical sense, that is, the meaning which the writer expressed.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Biblical_literalism (554 words)

	The Single Greatest Misconception About Religion
		Biblical literalist periodicals routinely publish accounts of miracles, and since the possibility of miracles is taken for granted, accounts of miracles by otherwise reputable persons are accepted as simple matters of observation.
		Biblical literalists regard their beliefs as susceptible to testing in many of the same senses that scientific ideas are testable.
		To Biblical literalists, miracles and communications from God are replicable in the sense of showing consistent patterns, the content of the communications is verified (in their eyes) by experience, and the Biblical accounts have survived innumerable failed attempts at refutation (in the view of literalists if not their critics).
	www.uwgb.edu /dutchs/PSEUDOSC/BigMiscon.HTM (3815 words)

	Biblical Literalism
		Biblical idolatry today is the same as the scriptural idolatry state-of-affairs with which Jesus had to deal.
		That particular literalism was, at the time, the most advanced and progressive approach to moving Christian living into the modernity of that 19th century time.
		Part of the acceptance of the Bible as literal and innerant is an inheritance from what common folks in the middle ages were taught by the Catholic priests.
	coastalrain.tripod.com /americanchristian/id3.html (4576 words)

	Biblical Literalism
		With all the decades of scientific research and biblical scholarship that have intervened since the Scopes "monkey trial" in 1925, one might have thought that the issues were by now passe.
		Literal clarity and simplicity, to be sure, offer a kind of security in a world (or Bible) where otherwise issues seem incorrigibly complex, ambiguous and muddy.
		Biblical literalism, in its treatment of the days of creation, substitutes a modern arithmetical reading for the original symbolic one.
	homepages.wmich.edu /~korista/literalism.htm (3164 words)

	CH102: Literalism
		A literal reading of the Bible misses the meaning behind the details (Hyers 1983).
		The invalid "proofs" necessary to support antievolution, a global flood, and a young earth, and the contradictions implied by literalism have pushed people away from Christianity (Hildeman 2004; Morton n.d.).
		Biblical literalism is not a requirement; it is a fashion.
	www.talkorigins.org /indexcc/CH/CH102.html (334 words)

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		One of the reasons for the differences between oral and written texts is that literate works are of a âdiscourse which cannot be directly questioned or contested as oral speech can be because written discourse has been detached from its authorâ (Ong, 2002, p.77).
		One of the reasons for the differences between oral and written texts is that literate works are of a âdiscourse which cannot be directly questioned or contested as oral speech can be because written discourse has been detached from its authorâ (Ong, 77).
		Biblical prophecy is much more about social commentary than actually claiming to predict the future in the same way that the fundamentalist understands this.
	www.mcluhan.utoronto.ca /academy/literalism/literalism_atom.xml (8733 words)

	eReader.com: Excerpt from The Heart of Christianity
		In a Gallup Poll taken in the United States in 1963, almost two-thirds (65 percent) agreed with a statement affirming biblical literalism: "The Bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken literally, word for word." Some forty years later, in 2001, this figure had dropped to 27 percent.
		Biblical infallibility and biblical literalism typically go together, but they are not intrinsically related.
		Indeed, Christian literalism is to a large extent a literalism of the spectacular.
	www.ereader.com /product/book/excerpt/12431 (2834 words)

	AmericanCatholic.org - Catholic Update ©2001 - The Fundamentalist Challenge by Raymond E. Brown, S.S.
		Biblical literalism, since it makes all divine, supplies a false certitude that often unconsciously confuses the human limitation with the divine message.
		Indeed, were you to be successful in convincing an intelligent biblical fundamentalist that the position is wrong, you might be surprised to find that the former fundamentalist does not become a more moderate Christian but an atheist.
		The Roman Catholic Church considers itself a biblical Church in the sense that it acknowledges and proclaims the Bible to be God's word.
	www.americancatholic.org /Newsletters/CU/ac0590.asp (2855 words)

	THE FUTURE OF BIBLICAL STUDIES IN THE WESLEYAN TRADITION:
		If the goal of biblical interpretation for the church is praxis, then a model of interpretation that leads in a Wesleyan reading of biblical texts must help to shape the theological understanding and spiritual vitality of its Wesleyan constituency.
		Thus, if biblical scholars look carefully at what the church has taught over extended periods of time, extending back to the ancient church as well as to the Wesleyan tradition, they will be safeguarded from straying too easily from the truths of scripture.
		Biblical theology is not precisely the same as the academic disciplines of theology or biblical studies; thus, neither have emphasized its relevance or study.
	wesley.nnu.edu /wesleyan_theology/theojrnl/26-30/30-2-09.htm (7124 words)

	The Confessing Reader » Blog Archive » An old canard quacks again
		It is also true that Biblical Literalism has been used to support unjust and immoral positions by the Episcopal Church (including within our diocese when our own first Bishop, John Henry Hopkins, used Holy Scripture to support the practice of slavery even after the Emancipation Proclamation).
		But a catholic understanding of biblical interpretation will allow holy Tradition and, to a lesser extent, Holy Spirit-illumined reason to help the Church ascertain when the literal meaning of Holy Scripture is intended, and when that intended meaning might rather be symbolic or moral.
		Contrary to this, however, there are no biblical passages which directly subvert the biblical view of human sexuality (and possibly, given Romans 1, of sexual affections) that is grounded in the creation narrative of Genesis 1 and in Jesus’ recapitulation of that narrative in Matthew 19.
	reader.classicalanglican.net /?p=305 (2167 words)

	Scripture in the Hands of Geologists (Part One) - Davis A. Young
		Literalism has insisted that the early chapters of Genesis are literal narratives that report in succinct, quasi-photographic manner a succession of historical events, the physical artifacts of which are potentially discoverable.
		Modern literalism is opposed to the ideas of evolution and a lengthy terrestrial history, and it is disturbed by the inability of modern science to verify the occurrence of a global flood.
		I further suggest that both literalism and concordism have outlived their usefulness, and that these approaches should be abandoned for a newer approach that does not try to answer technical scientific questions with biblical data.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Thebes/7755/young_davis_a_1.html (10277 words)

	Biblical Christian Metareligious Essay, Pt 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Yet it also includes stories the biblical writers, inspired though they were, couldn't possibly have known: the story of the Chinese people, for example, or the story of the galaxies and our solar system, or of human history since the time that the Bible was written, or of your story, and mine.
		Biblical stories too are symbols that point to profound truths about the real world and the human condition.
		When biblical revelation is understood as revealing important truths (albeit symbolically or metaphorically) about the nature of Reality and our relationship to it, people invariably have a renewed respect and awe for scripture.
	www.evolutionarychristianity.com /BiblicalMetarelig1.html (2908 words)

	On the Heresy of Literalism
		This is the belief that Scripture should be read as literally as possible in every respect, and especially wherever not to do so would seem to deny the power of God to operate apart from the laws of nature.
		Ironically, biblical literalism misunderstands the biblical faith in the very course of struggle to understand and defend it in a changing cultural context.
		Literalism errs fatally when in implicit arrogance it denies the mystery of the revealed but sovereign, never-fullyknowable God.
	people.cas.sc.edu /lewiske/heresy.html (1264 words)

	Biblical Literalism - Uncyclopedia
		Biblical Literalism is the most common form of schizophrenia as yet discovered in humans.
		BL is the street name for an extremely potent drug whose side-effects closely simulate the mental condition of Biblical Literalists.
		It is known to induce hallucinations, childlike naiveness, delusions, hypocrisy, violent, irrational behavior, desire to force the drug upon others, and general stupidity.
	www.uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Biblical_Literalism (404 words)

	The slow and painful death of biblical literalism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In some ways, it is antithetical to the biblical literalism that they have embraced for the last hundred and fifty years.
		What matters is that, with intellligent design, the fundamental mechanisms of empirical science are recognized and validated and that bible stories cross over from literal perfect history to metaphorical wisdom (biblical inerrancy intact, just not literal).
		Biblical literalists are still in denial, stuck in an infantile form of faith that clings to the most literal reading possible—despite clear scientific evidence proving it wrong—except when it is socially inconvenient (surely a rich man can get into heaven; that was just a metaphor, right?).
	www.tysto.com /articles06/q1/20060224literalism.shtml (903 words)

	Jesus And Biblical Literism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Biblical literalism died with the life and teachings of Jesus, who summed up God's will by saying: "I give you a new commandment that
		Biblical literalism has become the god of destructive pseudo-Christianity.
		His legacy of biblical literalism lives on and on and on.
	members.aol.com /kelkalemba/JesusAndBiblicalLiterism.html (695 words)

	Beyond Biblical Literalism
		The Bible literally and clearly says in Matthew 5:29-30 and Mark 9:43-47 that if your hand or eye or foot offend, then you are to remove these offending body parts.
		Biblical literalism has inspired centuries of self-inflicted suffering and violence against others in the name of God.
		I get e-mail every day from suffering people who are victims of biblical literalism and lies about the Bible that have been created by homophobic speculations and distortions of biblical material.
	www.whosoever.org /editorial/literal.html (946 words)

	Borg, Biblical Literalism Declining (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		A new Gallup Poll indicates that biblical literalism continues to decline in the United States.
		The decline in biblical literalism from roughly two-thirds of the population in 1963 to just over one-fourth in 2001 is significant.
		And thus it is also an exciting time to be biblical scholars committed to the life of the church.
	www.crowsville.net /aabs/arch/news0109/borg.htm (572 words)

	The Witness: Selective Biblical Literalism (Nothing New)
		The latest language from those who have stridently opposed the election, consent, and consecration of Gene Robinson to be a bishop of the church has been so strong, so passionate that one must ask of its origin.
		The seeds sewn by the biblical literalists now have grown into rigid, rugged trees prepared to withstand any wind of change or maturing or deepening theological growth.
		That may be true in the churches of much of the developed world but not so, apparently, in the many of youngest churches of the Communion.
	thewitness.org /article.php?id=651 (1087 words)

	Geoff Arnold: Biblical literalism, Constitutional "original intent": it's all the same thing
		I was reading Slacktivist this evening and came across a piece that contained a simple idea that I had never thought about.
		Biblical literalism, Constitutional "original intent": it's all the same thing
		The last thing a Biblical fundamentalist wants is to be dragged into a debate about why Leviticus is authoritative about homosexuality but not shellfish, let alone slavery and mixed fibres.
	www.geoffarnold.com /mt-archives/000613.html (587 words)

	titusonenine » Blog Archive » A Proposed Resolution in the Diocese of Vermont to Support the Episcopal ...
		The intellectual ignorance or dishonesty (I’m not sure which it is) that informs a belief that theological conservatism (orthodoxy) equals biblical literalism, or that a carefully parsed literal understanding of some texts equals an unthinking fundamentalism, is a constant source of amazement to me.
		But those folks in Vermont who drafted this resolution are taking one thing for granted in their quest to mitigate the harm done by viewing the world through “the ‘lens’ of Biblical Literalism” which, they allege, results in the denial of their basic human right of blessing a same-gender civil union.
		With regard to the Diocese of Vermont, things such as “…the Episcopal Coalition to Abolish Biblical Literalism (ECABL)…” and the fact that the local ECUSA church is served by a lesbian priest are why I cross the border to worship in the Diocese of Albany.
	titusonenine.classicalanglican.net /?p=9692 (5808 words)

	An Ecumenical Council to Address "Biblical Fundamentalism?"
		Christianity certainly is "in the midst of a global identity crisis," but that crisis is the result of theological accommodation and confusion -- not biblical literalism.
		In this context, biblical literalism is code language for any assertion of biblical authority or biblical inerrancy.
		The RNS report also included this: "Although Hanson did not elaborate, mainline churches traditionally are uneasy with literal readings of Scripture, particularly in fundamentalist churches, regarding the end of the world and political unrest in the Middle East.
	www.albertmohler.com /blog_read.php?id=218 (367 words)

	Biblical Literalism
		A trusted pastor repeatedly claimed that the Bible is literally true and frequently condemned people who don't believe the Bible is literally true as tools of satan and unbelievers in danger of eternal damnation.
		This is "pick and choose literalism." The parts of the Bible you agree with you take literally, the parts you disagree with must be interpreted symbolically or metaphorically.
		Their sermons that appeal to literalism imply that "if you disagree with me you are a tool of satan, an unbeliever in danger of eternal damnation." In some cases this is simple demagoguery.
	www.newreformation.org /literalism.htm (1091 words)

	Biblical literalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Biblical literalism is the adherence to the explicit and literal sense of the Bible.
		For example: Saint Augustine, (4th century), claimed that the entire Bible should be interpreted in an as literal as possible way, but his own interpretation of the book of Genesis was made in such a way that would be considered "allegorical" by many modern readers
		that certain sections of the Bible should be interpreted as literal statements of the author and are not intended as parable.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Biblical_literalism (845 words)

	Biblical inerrancy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The theological basis of the belief, in its simplest form, is that as God is perfect, the Bible, as the word of God, must also be perfect, thus, free from error.
		Proponents of biblical inerrancy also teach that God used the "distinctive personalities and literary styles of the writers" of scripture but that God's inspiration guided them to flawlessly project his message through their own language and personality.
		For hundreds of years, biblical scholars have examined the manuscripts extensively, and controversy remains on many details of the original document's contents.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Biblical_inerrancy (2107 words)

	The Panda's Thumb: UK Bishops speak out about Biblical literalism
		A “literal interpretation” is almost an oxymoron, anyway, somewhat akin to the assertion that there exists somewhere a person who speaks a widely-spoken language with “no accent.” For example, it is sometimes claimed that people from Nebraska (e.g.
		So their own statement that the literal bible is the truth means nothing, because they back out of the literal meaning to symbolism as soon as they are cornered with their own texts.
		Biblical literalism gives the fundamentalist movement something to found its identity on, gives them an excuse to say, all those other sects, those backsliders, they aren’t really Christians, we’re the real Christians, the Bible is why.
	www.pandasthumb.org /archives/2005/11/uk_bishops_spea.html (13586 words)

	UUFSC (Modesto, CA) Sermon: Beyond Biblical Literalism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		We are confronted with some strongly literal interpretations here.
		Bishop Spong emphasized the idea that literal approaches to the Bible mean ignoring some very serious and important questions.
		You may want to see a list of all sermons, a brief biography, or the latest edition of Grace Notes, a column she writes for the newsletter.
	www.stanuu.org /literal_bible.html (2617 words)

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