- Look up literal or
literally in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Literal may
refer to:
Interpretation of
legal concepts:
Strict constructionism The plain...
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Biblical literalist chronology is the
attempt to
correlate the
historical dates used in the
Bible with the
chronology of
actual events,
typically starting...
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Fundamentalists and
evangelicals sometimes refer to
themselves as
literalists or
biblical literalists.
Sociologists also use the term in
reference to conservative...
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school of
jurisprudence (fiqh)
found in pre-modern
texts and
noted for its
literalist interpretation of the Qur'an and hadith. However, in 2021,
Saudi Arabia...
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Greene has
stated that he
regards science as
being incompatible with
literalist interpretations of
religion and that
there is much in the New Atheism...
- 14
April 2008, in a UK
Channel 4 do****entary,
Tudor Par****,
taking a
literalist approach to the
Biblical story,
described his
research into this claim...
- translations, and
interpretations range from
traditional scholastic, to
literalist-salafist
understandings to Esoteric-Sufist, to
modern and
secular exegesis...
- in a
Baptist home; as he
entered adolescence he
began to
question the
literalist teachings preached at his father's church. At the age of 13, he denied...
- The
Arabic phrase Bila Kayf, also
pronounced as Bila Kayfa, (Arabic: بلا كيف, romanized: bi-lā kayfa, lit. 'with-no (without) how') is
roughly translated...
- at the end of his
second term he said on
television that he is "not a
literalist"
about Bible interpretation. Walt Harrington, a journalist,
recalled seeing...
