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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Literalism"”.
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Biblical Literalism And Implications For Learning
<p>Given that everything we learn is scaffolded onto prior knowledge, how and what we learn is infinitely complex. There are many factors influencing learning, including environment, social and institutional attitudes, access, conditioning and biases. Among the social and environmental factors, …
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The Rhetoric of Literalism: Readings in American Minimal Art 1959-1966
… my particular focus on the terms 'literal' and 'literalism' derives from the art critic Michael Fried's negative characterization of Minimalism as anti-modernist. I interrogate the idea of literalness, arguing that it was complexly instituted in relation to other kinds of artistic meaning. I …
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Biblical literalism and the acceptance of biological evolution in Christian university students
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Comparative Literalisms: An Assessment of Protestant Christian and Sunni Muslim Fundamentalist Scriptural Hermeneutics through the Writings of Falwell, Rushdoony, Qutb, and al-Maqdisi
… out for their preference for hermeneutic ‘literalism’. For that matter, in this comparative study, I explore the concept of ‘literalism’, its meaning and methodological applications through surveying scriptural commentaries of four influential 20th-century figures, prominent in the academic …
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Fiction and the Reaction to Photography: Literalism, the Law and the Conditions and the Control of Reading from the Invention of Photography to the 1920s
… reading associated with perceived outsiders and literalism and as a foil used to delineate ideas of legitimacy and authorised and acceptable reading practices. I link ideas of art, law, photography and reading in order to understand what kind of reader and reading fiction aimed to produce, and …
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The Ethics of Knowing: Epistemic Virtue at an Ex-literalist Church in Nashville
… by its stalwart commitment to biblical literalism. Restorationists lamented the schismatic denominationalism characteristic of American Protestantism, considering such discord a hindrance both to Christians’ own salvation and to global evangelization. They sought to unite all Christians …
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“GOD HATES FAGS”—THE USE OF RELIGION AS JUSTIFICATION FOR PREJUDICE TOWARDS HOMOSEXUALS
… feedback they received. When it came to Biblical Literalism, however, relatively conservative participants had higher levels of literalism when given the Neutral Feedback compared to relatively liberal participants when given the same Feedback. These findings were mostly replicated in the …
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Written Convergence in the Greek Pentateuch: Studies at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface
… meaning borrowed from the source in cases of literalism: 6\. If (5), then neither the translators nor their intended audience were oblivious to the same inferences when they were borrowed from the source. 7\. So, macro-structural planning also includes licensing inferences borrowed from the …
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Body, soul, and bible : a religious history of nineteenth-century physiological reform.
… They therefore clashed with the commonsense literalism with which their contemporaries read the Bible—a hermeneutical conflict the physiological reformers failed to win.
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Religion and Political Behavior: Studies of Political Tolerance, Voting, and Public Opinion
… In the case of tolerance, a belief in biblical literalism decreases political tolerance, while church attendance often increases tolerance. Additional analysis finds that church attendance is strongly associated with voter turnout for the Republican candidates. Finally, work on public opinion …
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Body, soul, and bible : a religious history of nineteenth-century physiological reform.
… They therefore clashed with the commonsense literalism with which their contemporaries read the Bible—a hermeneutical conflict the physiological reformers failed to win.
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Parenting Style and Its Relationship to Interpretation of the Bible and Worship Style in College Students.
… were then directed to complete the Scriptural Literalism Scale (Hogge & Friedman, 1967) and the Worship Style Index, which provided measures of biblical interpretation style and worship style respectively. The results suggested that parenting styles relate to how one comes to interpret the …
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A critical analysis of William Alston's view of religious language, with a comparison with classical and modern Islamic theories
… he answers the second with a theory of 'partial literalism.' I also compare Alston's view with other contemporary theologians, including D. Z. Phillips, Paul Tillich, John Hick, and finally, Muh[dotbelow]ammad H[dotbelow]usayn T[dotbelow]abât[dotbelow]abâi, a contemporary Iranian Muslim …
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Antonio Fogazzaro and the Development of Liberal Catholicism in Modern Italy
… a departure from religious traditionalism and literalism as well as a move toward the development of liberal Catholicism in modern Italy.
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Antonio Fogazzaro and the Development of Liberal Catholicism in Modern Italy
… a departure from religious traditionalism and literalism as well as a move toward the development of liberal Catholicism in modern Italy.
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The Senses of Fundamentalism: A Material History of Sensing Bodies in Early Twentieth-Century American Fundamentalism
… concepts like “belief,” “theology,” or “literalism.” This project recovers sensing bodies as the cornerstone of fundamentalism.</p>
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Apocalyptic Theopolitics: Dispensationalism, Israel/Palestine, and Ecclesial Enactments of Eschatology
… which the disciplines of biblicism and biblical literalism form an eschatology which subordinates ecclesiology and Christology, nurturing an imagination of the roles of Christ and the church in time and space which sever social ethics from necessary Christological and ecclesiological sources. …
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The scientific theory of evolution and christian beliefs : A philosophical inquiry with special reference to Zambia
… accounts in Genesis in particular. Biblical literalism, which is characteristic of Christian fundamentalists, gives a literal rendering to the biblical creation accounts that fuels the conflict view between the theory of evolution and some Christian beliefs. However, the allegorical approach …
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The Sterne voyage of the <i>Pequod</i>: the tale of a tub in American literature
… multiply his mockery of the tubs of literalism and weighty abstraction. Sterne the critic delivers the tubs of his own imaginative insight as he demonstrates the technique of his manifold “genius,” a pregnant word whose etymology manipulates his frame of reference and perception. …