Narrating and Navigating Authorities: Evangelical and Mainline Protestant Interpretations of the Bible and Science

Research on the way Protestants interpret the Bible in relationship to science has tended to focus on biblical literalists; less research, however, has examined the heterogeneity of how nonliteralists interpret the Bible. Utilizing data from semi-structured interviews with 77 evangelical and mainlin...

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Published in:Journal for the scientific study of religion
Subtitles:Forum on Religious Belief
Authors: Chan, Esther (Author) ; Ecklund, Elaine Howard 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2016]
In: Journal for the scientific study of religion
Year: 2016, Volume: 55, Issue: 1, Pages: 54-69
Further subjects:B Miracles
B Mainline Protestants
B Bible
B Science
B Evangelicals
B Evolution
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