The bishop's solution to this problem which goes back to 19th-century thinkers such as Matthew Arnold is to think of the Bible as poetry rather than dogma: as it cannot give you literal access to the divine, it is only as metaphor that it can satisfy a human longing for the transcendental.

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She made a commitment to serving Jesus Christ and was not about to back away from her call to ministry because a male-dominated organization decided that its interpretation of the Bible calls for a woman not to be in the pulpit.

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Although both believe that the Bible contains the core of all Christian faith and thought, traditionalists tend to talk about the tradition of the Church of England, tracing its routes back to the early church, while evangelicals support their view with specific passages from the Bible.

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The Rogerses were devout Southern Baptists, and in Hampton Alan mostly kept to himself and his Bible, occasionally picking buckets of pecans from a giant tree in the back yard.

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