- 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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Fundamentalists and
evangelicals sometimes refer to
themselves as
literalists or
biblical literalists.
Sociologists also use the term in
reference to conservative...
- history.
Biblical literalism, however, does not
treat it this way,
because literalists have a
profound respect for the
Bible as the word of God. This way of...
-
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...
-
Greene has
stated that he
regards science as
being incompatible with
literalist interpretations of
religion and that
there is much in the New Atheism...
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redactional additions by Matthew. Others, however, such as some
Biblical literalists,
believe redactional theories of the
parables are
speculative at best...
- the Ark
Encounter in Williamstown.
Since the end of the 20th century,
literalist creationism has been
abandoned by some
evangelicals in
favor of intelligent...
- 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...
- 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...
- accuracy,
moral tenability, and
supposed inerrancy claimed by
biblical literalists.
There remain questions of
biblical authorship and what
material to include...
