Biblical Literalism as Hyper-Perspicuity
Last night I was at a lecture on science and religion at USC's
Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies. (Evidently, we have an Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies. Who knew?) In the course of a lecture with which I otherwise mostly agreed, Fr. Paul Heft connected radical Biblical literalism with the Reformers. This is, of course, strictly false: the Reformers were not literalists in anything like the sense in which twentieth century fundamentalists were. However, it got me thinking about what connection the doctrine of perspicuity, which I was recently
discussing on Called to Communion, might have to radical literalism...
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Bible
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Church Dogmatics
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George Berkeley
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Historical Thinkers
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Hyper-Reformation Theology
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Perspicuity
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Protestantism
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Roman Catholic Church
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Scripture and Tradition
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The Church
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Theology
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Hyper-Reformation Theology
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discussed before...
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