Henry Walter Spaulding III
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“One must see how this interpretation naturally assumes a culture (Kultur) of belief rather than exegetical work. The fundamentalist position is a Trojan horse that makes possible the disguising of a cultural norm as a biblical one.”
― Between Two Gileads: Christian Nationalism, Fundamentalism, Romans 13:1–7, and the Future of Political Theology
― Between Two Gileads: Christian Nationalism, Fundamentalism, Romans 13:1–7, and the Future of Political Theology
“To be clear, a literary theology does not wholesale reject literal readings of the text but moves literal readings into the orbit of the beauty of God in Christ so that one might locate literal readings within that larger frame of reference.”
― Between Two Gileads: Christian Nationalism, Fundamentalism, Romans 13:1–7, and the Future of Political Theology
― Between Two Gileads: Christian Nationalism, Fundamentalism, Romans 13:1–7, and the Future of Political Theology
“Rather than emphasizing God’s transcendence or challenging the dominance of scientific inquiry, fundamentalists argued that the Bible itself was the most authoritative source of factual truth. The dispute with higher criticism was thus not about faith versus science but about which framework—modernist historical inquiry or scriptural inerrancy—held the power to define reality.”
― Between Two Gileads: Christian Nationalism, Fundamentalism, Romans 13:1–7, and the Future of Political Theology
― Between Two Gileads: Christian Nationalism, Fundamentalism, Romans 13:1–7, and the Future of Political Theology
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