Matt Kennedy: Do They Really "Take the Bible Seriously Not Literally"?

One of the more common reasons (or flippant excuses) given for ignoring the clear import of those “7 clobber passages” (as one revisionist blogger calls them) that clearly condemn homosexual behavior, is that Episcopalians take the bible “seriously not literally”.

Those who employ the slogan reveal a basic ignorance both of a quite hallowed principle of exegesis and of early Christian history.

The word “literalist” calls to mind mason jars full of rat poison and dancing snake handlers. You generally don’t think of Martin Luther.

Luther was a champion of the literalist principle as were all the magisterial reformers. In fact, any exegete worth his salt is a “literalist” or he has no business in the scriptures.

Well, what is the literal principle? Let’s start with what it is not. the rest at Stand Firm