(November 29, 2022 at 12:21 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(November 28, 2022 at 7:20 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Why did theologians, for centuries, take the Genesis account literally?
Because the literal was, and still is, the least important way to approach scripture.
Once again, you can't explain why Bishop Ussher was widely praised by churchmen, both Protestant and Catholic, can you? No one chided him for having been "too literal" in his interpretation of Sacred Scripture. Why not?