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Literalistic faults of the last 40 years are now commonly acknowledged.

Like his predecessor he took a 'literalistic' view of Scripture - particularly in eschatology.

Many of the gimmicks are literalistic, virtual study guides for the lyrics.

Some literalistic hoon thought he went too far.

Of course I am not here arguing for a return to a three-tier model of reality seen in literalistic terms.

Opponents reject the claim that the literalistic biblical view meets the criteria required to be considered scientific.

For a band devoted to abstract instrumentals, Orbital is oddly literalistic.

Nader Saiedi explains that these terms should not be interpreted too literalistic, but focus is needed on their spiritual meaning.

The implication was that the faith of the mujtahids was incomplete, legalistic, and literalistic.

However, I have also been at pains to show that we need to distinguish the reality of evil from crude and literalistic representations of it.

An objection frequently heard today is that it is being unduly literalistic to discuss whether or not the Bible history is true.

An extremely literalistic interpretation of the Bible and non-canonical related texts present a cosmology that is incompatible with modern scientific knowledge.

The Christian Coalition was set up to force its narrow, literalistic version of Christianity into United States law by any means necessary.

There were elements in American culture and religious life that were favorable to this literalistic form of faith, and which provided it with a fertile soil.

Thus Tillich dismisses a literalistic Biblicism.

In them, he invariably disparaged Judaism as literalistic, chauvinistic and parochial -stock anti-Semitic epithets.

It presents a scholarly alternative to literalistic interpretations of the Genesis narratives, which are advocated by some conservative Christians and Creationists at a popular level.

Steinbruck had been raised in the literalistic religion of his German immigrant parents, in a little known sect called the Faith Tract Mission.

Evolution contradicts a literalistic interpretation of Genesis; however, according to Catholicism and most contemporary Protestant denominations, biblical literalism in the creation account is not mandatory.

Together with the majority of scholars, the other members of the group took the yili xue (義理學, "principle study") approach, which was based on literalistic and moralistic concepts.

Mr. Gerroll is periodically asked to fall to the ground in red-faced paroxysms of paranoia, rage and sobs that typify the play's literalistic presentation of mental illness.

Only when the songs took up pop itself did the staging grow literalistic; for "Opportunities," Mr. Tennant (in Elvis Presley getup) was surrounded by dancing pigs.

Five years ago, Bishop Spong wrote a book-length critique of such literalistic thinking, "Rescuing the Bible From Fundamentalism" (HarperCollins), which sold more than 120,000 copies.

A comparison of the Qumran texts with the Ethiopic version, performed by James VanderKam, found that the Ethiopic was in most respects an accurate and literalistic translation.

The preoccupation these days stems mainly from the outsized influence of a specific, literalistic approach to biblical prophecy, called dispensationalism, which only came to occupy a dominant place in American evangelicalism relatively recently.