-B.
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C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>Despite the gee-whiz style of the article, there's
nothing
>particularly new about the UK bishops' document.
It's quite
>the standard position. How to read the scriptures
>(particularly the Hebrew bible) when they obviously
can't be
>read literally has been solved in various ways by
Christians
>over 2,000 years (beginning perhaps with the
imaginative
>solutions of Clement of Alexandria and Origen early
in the 3rd
>century). The real dispute between Galileo and
Cardinal
>Bellarmine (as they both recognized) was biblical
hermeneutics:
>neither held a modern Fundamentalist position --
precisely
>because the notion of "verbal inerrancy" arises only
in the
>modern period. --CGE
>