Word: literalistic
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...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...
...staff position cloaks its virulent antireligious bias none too well. Although it feigns agreement with President Neil L. Rudenstine's decision not to judge the issue, the staff nonetheless believes itself more equipped than the president to render a decision. Witness its disdainful insinuation that only "a Biblical literalist" could believe that the Bible condemns homosexual acts...
...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...
Morison Professor of New Testament StudiesHelmut H. Koester acknowledged that the Bible isagainst homosexuality but said "that only comes ifyou are a Biblical literalist...