Word: literalistic
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...Kansas decision represents creationism's first--and surely temporary--success with a third strategy for subverting a constitutional imperative: that by simply deleting, but not formally banning, evolution, and by not demanding instruction in a biblically literalist "alternative," their narrowly partisan religious motivations might not derail their goals...
According to Hrnicek, the HCIA is an independent Bible study group that is "united under the voice of the Church," i.e., the HCIA represents the BCC on campus. And this group is hardly a pluralistic sect, offering a literalist, univocal interpretation of the Bible. Each member is assigned a "disciple" who instructs them in the orthodox reading of the text. There is no room for free expression or autonomy...
...clever boy some four decades earlier in college. But this was no book I was studying or one I was writing . . ." Here a slight demurral seems appropriate: this is obviously a book that Roth is writing. His claim to the contrary is part of the trap he sets for literalist readers...
...chaplain's job does not appear to be in jeopardy. The conservative Christians are far outnumbered -- or at least outmaneuvered -- by Harvard's well-organized gay and lesbian community. At Harvard Divinity School, a bastion of liberalism, Dean Ronald Thiemann argues that Concerned Christians expresses "little more than a literalist interpretation of Scripture, without any theological sophistication." Anderson scoffs at that. "It does not take a Ph.D. to understand that the Bible condemns the act of homosexuality...
...another side are people like Morison Professor of New Testament Studies Helmut H. Koester who told The Crimson that only "a Biblical literalist" would hold this view...