{"id":6042,"date":"2012-11-29T15:39:40","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T20:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/?p=6042"},"modified":"2012-11-29T15:39:40","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T20:39:40","slug":"hey-hallquist-want-to-give-me-a-one-sentence-long-early-christmas-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2012\/11\/hey-hallquist-want-to-give-me-a-one-sentence-long-early-christmas-present.html","title":{"rendered":"Hey, Hallquist, want to give me a one-sentence long early Christmas present?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Yesterday, I wrote a little response<\/a> to Chris Hallquist\u2019s open call for comments on his book draft<\/a>. \u00a0Turns out I had misunderstood how big a claim Chris was making, which he helpfully clarified in a comment<\/a>, and I\u2019m sure the finished work will help prevent people from making my mistake. \u00a0I only had two other issues worth commenting on with the chapter, one that\u2019s\u00a0picayune, and one that\u2019s probably beyond the scope of what Hallquist is trying to do in this chapter. \u00a0First things first:<\/p>\n

Chris mentions that Aquinas and Augustine believed the Bible was inerrant (true!) as a rebuttal to the claim that some fundamentalist claims are recent enough to be written off. \u00a0Thankfully, he goes on to clarify in the next paragraph:<\/p>\n

I need to point out that inerrancy should not be confused with \u201cliteralism\u201d about the Bible. Talk of \u201cliteralism\u201d is misleading. Among Christians who\u2019ve thought about the issue, few if any think that everything in the Bible is to be taken literally. Even young earth creationists\u2014that is, people who accept the literal truth of statements in the Bible which imply the Earth is roughly several thousand years old\u2014do not (with a few exceptions) take the Bible literally when it implies the Earth is flat. And while some creationists reject not only Darwin but also Galileo, others accept that the Bible is not to be taken literally when it implies the Sun goes round the Earth rather than the reverse.<\/p>\n

Not only do young earthers use the Bible this way, some are perfectly clear about what they\u2019re doing. For example, young earth creationist Josh McDowell, rather than say we must take everything in the Bible literally, says that passages can be interpreted figuratively only if we can \u201cfind a good reason in the passage to justify interpreting figuratively\u201d [11]. This makes \u201cliteralism\u201d a misleading term, even when talking about Christians whose interpretation of the Bible is more literal than most.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Merci! But since you brought up Aquinas and Augustine, I\u2019d be pretty happy if you used those guys in this section and contrasted them a little with the Young Earth Creationist\u2019s vague \u201cfiguratively.\u201d Just a single sentence that mentions the four kinds of interpretation these guys used<\/a>, so people don\u2019t have a very specific sense of \u2018literalism\u2019 and a super-unspecific sense of not!literalism.<\/p>\n

Otherwise, I think a casual reader is going to think you\u2019re making an equivalence between Aquinas\u2019s methodology and your Young Earther, and then us Catholics are going to have a sad, especially when we argue with someone who read this section and then picked a fight with us.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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