And there is a crucial divide, here, between mockery and unblinking literalism.

The trouble with Islam today is that Muslims have taken literalism mainstream, worldwide.

Milton's God, however, seems to bring out the inherent absurdity of Western literalism.

Lyell and Darwin worked by interpretation and interpolation; the catastrophists preached empirical literalism!

With provoking literalism he gave a critical glance at the bridle.

Withal, no trace of literalism, of obvious contours or tricky effects.

With typical military literalism it had been named Fort Forward.

The Samaritans are particularly relevant to my quest because they lean toward biblical literalism.

While debunking biblical literalism-withdinner party-ready scriptural quotes-Jacobssimultaneously finds his spirituality renewed.

The Voetians prided themselves on their literalism, and named Hugo Grotius as their master.

Hence the reäction of the rationalistic critic against the materialism and literalism of sacred verities.

But creationism is biblical literalism at its purest, so I need to check it out.

One way of getting us there is literalism.

The first is the point about literalism.

The only crazy quality they had was the literalism that turned rhetorical violence into the real thing.

If you want to slam Christian biblical literalism, I've noticed, the go-to epithet is "snake handler."