literalism

He argues that Razi's rejection of literalism and his multiple borrowings from Avicenna's (988-1037) philosophy are a consequence of a conception of knowledge in which reason plays a decisive role.

Studies in cognitive science typically involve relationships among terms, which Figdor argues is consistent with literalism. Consider the statement "resonator neurons prefer inputs having frequencies that resonate with the frequency of other oscillations." Use of the term "prefer" is not a similarity mapping between neurons and humans but a mapping between what neurons do and what humans do.

His biblical interpretation attracted fierce condemnation from those who wished to conserve the simplistic ignorance of fundamentalist biblical literalism.

Through careful structuring and witty literalism, Moseley has made universal a story so inherently regional, and for that I cannot thank him enough.

One major criticism of biblical literalism is that it does a grave injustice to the Bible itself, as it fails to acknowledge that much of biblical language is manifestly metaphorical.

It has an emphasis on mysticism and purity of heart rather than a fixation with scriptural literalism. It is an open spirituality, borrowing from cultural customs and folklore.

"There was the same literalism, the same passionate intensity, the same apocalyptic violence as now" - Historian David Starkey describing Henry VIII's break with Rome as a "Tudor Brexit".

-- Fewer than one in four Americans (24%) now believe the Bible is "the actual word of God, and is to be taken literally, word for word," similar to the 26% who view it as "a book of fables, legends, history and moral precepts recorded by man." This is the first time in Gallup's four-decade trend that biblical literalism has not surpassed biblical skepticism.

By answering the religious fundamentalists in their own terms, however, the new atheists have unwittingly adopted many of the faults they criticize, especially hermeneutic literalism. Leon Wieseltier's comment on Daniel Dennett extends to the "new atheism" as a whole: "Like many of the fundamentalists whom he despises, he is a literalist in matters of religion." (1)

The great medieval rabbi, philosopher and physician Maimonides warned against literalism, which, over history, has led to the most barbarous wars.

For a long time now in seminary, the assumption has been that leaders should assume that the first naivete is a dogged, uncritical biblical literalism. The educator's role, therefore, was to break that "naive" viewpoint in order to lead people (and their worshipping communities) to a more nuanced and historical-critical understanding of the Bible.