Our endeavor to capture even a faint sense of how strenuous was the fight is muffled by our indifference to the very issue which in the Boston of 1848 seemed to be the central hope of its Christian survival, that of the literal, factual historicity of the miracles as reported in the Four Gospels.

Scholars who have examined these claims tend to believe that while the slave songs may certainly have expressed hope for deliverance from the sorrows of this world, these songs did not present literal help for runaway slaves.

Not a literal illustration of the drama, the works were a free and naturalistic expression of the workers ' misery, hope, courage, and, eventually, doom.

Standard premillennialism posits that Christ's second coming will inaugurate a literal thousand-year earthly kingdom.

This means that they believe there will be no literal 1000-year visible earthly kingdom of Jesus — a view termed as “ realized millennialism ”, where the “ thousand years ” of Rev 20: 1 – 10 is taken figuratively as a reference to the time of Christ ’ s reign as king from the day of his ascension.

The Assemblies of God has a premillennial dispensationalist perspective on the future, including belief in the rapture and a literal earthly millennium.

" God the Father is the literal parent of the spirits of mankind and the earthly father of Jesus Christ.

Unlike Theistic Satanism, LaVeyan Satanism does not involve the literal worship of any being other than the self, but rather uses " Satan " as a symbol of carnality and earthly values, of man's inherent nature, and of a cosmos which Satanists perceive to be permeated and motivated by a force that has been given many names by man over the course of time.

* Belief that the core of Jesus Christ's message was the coming of a literal earthly Kingdom and that people who are ' saved ' will not go to heaven, but will live and rule eternally with Jesus Christ on earth after his second coming, and will subsequently share rulership over the entire universe as part of the ' God Family '.

According to the literal interpretation of prophecies in the Revelation of John, this kingdom of God on Earth will last a thousand years or more ( a millennium ).

Via the Vulgate Bible in Latin, a millennium of Roman Catholic thought ( from the early 5th century to the early 15th century ) had a literal monopoly on what Europeans thought of as " the truth ", and a very powerful hierarchy of priests, bishops, archbishops, cardinals, and succession of Popes to tell them when they were deviating from it.

Although some postmillennialists hold to a literal millennium of 1, 000 years, others postmillennialists see the thousand years more as a figurative term for a long period of time ( similar in that respect to amillennialism ).

Origen did this in his Commentary on Matthew when he taught that “ Christ ’ s return signifies His disclosure of Himself and His deity to all humanity in such a way that all might partake of His glory to the degree that each individual ’ s actions warrant ( Commentary on Matthew 12. 30 ).” Even Origen ’ s milder forms of this teaching left no room for a literal millennium and it was so extreme that few actually followed it.

Edwards taught that a type of Millennium would occur “ 1260 years after A. D. 606 when Rome was recognized as having universal authority .” His Puritan contemporaries, Increase Mather and Cotton Mather, openly proclaimed a belief in a literal millennium.

In contrast, the amillennial view holds that the thousand years mentioned in Revelation 20 is a symbolic number, not a literal description ; that the millennium has already begun and is identical with the current church age, ( or more rarely, that it ended with the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 — see Preterism ).

( Some postmillennialists and nearly all premillennialists hold that the word millennium should be taken to refer to a literal thousand-year period.

* Both the notion of " partnership " in the form of a senior emperor and several junior co-emperors ( usually, but not necessarily, his sons ), and Diocletian's titulature, but mainly versed in Greek ( e. g. Sebastos for Augustus, a literal translation ), became quite common is the Eastern Roman Empire, i. e. Byzantium, which lasted a further millennium after the fall of the Western Empire.

It was the collage that made the terms of this dilemma clear: the representational could be restored and preserved only on the flat and literal surface now that illusion and representation had become, for the first time, mutually exclusive alternatives.

It rejects the notion that Jesus or any other object or living being could be ' God ', that God could have a literal ' son ' in physical form or is divisible in any way, or that God could be made to be joined to the material world in such fashion.

It appears to have arisen over theological contentions concerning the meaning, figurative or literal, of a sentence from the Gospel of John: " the Word was made Flesh ".

The figurative meaning is comprehended in regard to a common use of the expression that is separate from the literal meaning or definition of the words of which it is made.

In a reified RDF database, each original statement, being a resource, itself, most likely has at least three additional statements made about it: one to assert that its subject is some resource, one to assert that its predicate is some resource, and one to assert that its object is some resource or literal.

In Catholic and Orthodox Christian theology, the Eucharist is a re-presentation, in the literal sense of the one sacrifice being made " present again ".

Where references are made to the Shekinah as manifestations of the glory of the Lord associated with his presence, Christians find numerous occurrences in the New Testament in both literal ( as in Luke 2: 9 which refers to the " glory of the Lord " shining on the shepherds at Jesus ' birth ) as well as spiritual forms ( as in John 17: 22, where Jesus speaks to God of giving the " glory " that God gave to him to the people ).

" These provisions made it impossible to film a literal depiction of the events in the novel.

According to Adler, " number of feminists note that few definitions of the word, despite its literal meaning, include any concept of power, and they suggest that centuries of oppression have made it impossible for women to conceive of themselves with such power.

Less than a century later, discoveries of new species made it increasingly difficult to justify a literal interpretation for the Ark story.

According to Pasternak's mistress and muse, Olga Ivinskaya, Whenever Leonidovich was provided with literal versions of things which echoed his own thoughts or feelings, it made all the difference and he worked feverishly, turning them into masterpieces.

The classic reproduction methods involved blue and white appearances ( whether white-on-blue or blue-on-white ), which is why engineering drawings were long called, and even today are still often called, " blueprints " or " bluelines ", even though those terms are anachronistic from a literal perspective, since most copies of engineering drawings today are made by more modern methods ( often inkjet or laser printing ) that yield black or multicolour lines on white paper.

In it he states that he once made plans with Hunt to kill journalist Jack Anderson, based on a literal interpretation of a Nixon White House statement " we need to get rid of this Anderson guy ".

It differs from literal translation and interlinear text as used in the past since it takes the progress learners have made into account and only focuses upon a specific structure at a time.

As a result of some of these rules of interpretation the literal sense of certain passages of the Bible must be excluded altogether ; e. g., passages in which according to a literal interpretation something unworthy is said of God ; or in which statements are made that are unworthy of the Bible, senseless, contradictory, or inadmissible ; or in which allegorical expressions are used for the avowed purpose of drawing the reader's attention to the fact that the literal sense is to be disregarded.

* Abū Ḥanīfa, taking a literal view ( harfiyyah ), held that " wine " ( خمر / Khamr in Quranic / classical Arabic ), i. e. the fermented juice of dates or grapes, was absolutely prohibited but it was permissible to drink small non-intoxicating amounts of other alcoholic beverages ( e. g. made from honey or grains ).

But Threnody explains that her presence at the castle caused her father to dote on her and neglect his duties to the destruction of the kingdom ; her stepmother had merely made her destructive potential literal, and forced her to confront what she was doing.

Included on the floor is a floor mural, made up of mathematical and literal references ( such as the famous formula E

* Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria ( about 296 — 373 ), also stated his belief in literal deification by saying as follows :" The Word was made flesh in order that we might be made gods.

A literal English translation of the title is " He who is made Lord ".

Where such adjustments are made the literal translation is noted in a footnote.

as a result, such pictures are only a literal translation of what the artist finds in the scene before him.

" A prisoner interviewed by Moyers explained his literal interpretation of the second verse: "' Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, and grace my fears relieved " by saying that the fear became immediately real to him when he realized he may never get his life in order, compounded by the loneliness and restriction in prison.

Basil of Caesarea accused him of abandoning the literal sense of the scripture, and taking up wholly with the allegorical sense.

That so much of the book ( chapters 25-31, 35-40 ) is spent describing the plans of the Tabernacle demonstrates the importance it played in the perception of Second Temple Judaism at the time of the text's redaction by the Priestly writers: the Tabernacle is the place where God is physically present, where, through the priesthood, Israel could be in direct, literal communion with him.

Basil of Caesarea accused him of abandoning the literal sense of the scripture, and taking up wholly with the allegorical sense.

Full preterists argue that a literal reading of Matthew 16: 28 ( where Jesus tells the disciples that some of them would not taste death until they saw him coming in his kingdom ) places the second coming in the first century.

The progression may be symbolic rather than literal, as observed in Louis Cha's The Smiling, Proud Wanderer, where the young Linghu Chong progresses from childish concerns and dalliances into much more adult ones as his unwavering loyalty repeatedly thrusts him into the rocks of betrayal at the hands of his inhumane master.

These permissions were not only for himself, but for all such as might join him in the attempt to restore the most literal observance possible of the Rule of St. Francis.

* This episode was also parodied in the 1997 Johnny Bravo episode " Johnny Real Good ", in which Johnny, in order to make money for a new car, babysits a young boy with godlike powers, and is tormented when he doesn't speak to the boy nicely, including being sent to a literal cornfield outside the boy's house whenever he tries to discipline him.

Calvin was a dogmatician ( systematic theology ), as exhibited in his Institutes of the Christian Religion, and an exegete who over time translated the Bible from the " original languages " in the form of his grand series of Commentaries on all but one of its books ( the Book of Revelation, which provided a problem to him in its metaphory, not yielding robustly to his binomial formula of letter and spirit: either literal, or figurative ).

Further, Bentley's counsel argued that even if he had said the words, it could not be proven that Bentley had intended the words to mean the informal meaning of " shoot him, Chris " instead of the literal meaning of " give him the gun, Chris ".

Gennadius is seen to have been a learnt writer and followed the Antiochene school of literal exegesis although little writings has been left about him.

storyline ; he develops a literal addiction to fear, exposing himself deliberately to the revenant army, but knowing that only Batman could scare him again.

Historic premillennialism maintains chiliasm because of its view that the church will be caught up to meet Christ in the air and then escort him to the earth in order to share in his literal thousand year rule.

Humans are literal children of a Father in Heaven, and through the Atonement of Jesus Christ they can return to him and become literal gods ( Doctrine and Covenants 132, Gospel Principles, chapter 47, LDS 1985 Melchizedek Priesthood study guide, " Search These Commandments ", pp. 151 – 157 / Lesson 21 ).

Its literal translation from Old French is " Shame be to him who thinks evil of it ".

All those after the day of Abraham ( of whatever literal lineage they may be ) who so live as to be worthy of a place in this great patriarchal chain will be welded into Abraham's lineage and shall rise up and bless him as their father.

His origin is simplified, with a Superman Robot informing Superman that Kryptonian records reporting him as an improperly programmed Doomsday biomechanical supersoldier, a literal weapon of mass destruction or doomsday device, one which cannot determine friend from foe, destroying everyone and everything in sight " because it must ".

The literal translation of " des Pudels Kern " is " the core of the poodle ", and it originates from Faust's exclamation upon seeing the poodle ( which followed him home ) turn into Mephistopheles.

Berry's fiction also allows him to explore the literal and metaphorical implications of marriage as that which binds individuals, families, and communities to each other and to Nature itself — yet not all of Port William is happily or conventionally married.

These were almost his only pictures connected by their titles with poetical fancy or legend, the landscapes which down to 1885 he continued, in spite of incessant discouragement, to contribute to the Academy, being chiefly topographical ; and perhaps Ruskin's praise of his stern fidelity made him too merely literal a transcriber of nature.