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Walter Brueggemann and Clover Beal

CBF Conversations

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The Importance of Biblical Literalism

When people say biblical literalism, they mean biblical historicism. Most of the time we handle that hard problem by being unaware of the second statement. What we want to do is to summarize scripture and scripture refuses to be summarized. It insists on being taken a text at a time and then to ask what text is this text sending me? And often it is sending me to a text to which I do not want to go.

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