From: Glenn Morton (glenn.morton@btinternet.com)
Date: Thu Apr 10 2003 - 16:00:22 EDT
I have just added the 19th century authors, George Redford and George
Rawlinson to my long page on 19th century literalism. While Michael and I
might agree about Woody, I will not back down on my claim that biblical
literalism and YECism both existed in the mid to late 1800s but that they
were busy producing books which went through multiple editions.
Concerning that, Michael called what I am doing farce. I never got an
answer to the question I asked him. How many YECs and biblical literalists
will it take for you to acknoweldge that the movement never died? And that
it wasn't 'virtually extinct. That shouldn't be a difficult question to
answer.
Rawlinson, by the way, gave the 1859 Bampton lectures in which he argued
that the Bible was "All tends to show that we possess in the Pentateuch, not
only the most authentic account of ancient times that have come down to us,
but a history absolutely and in every respect true." (Rawlinson, 1859, p.
77)
This lecture was delivered to Oxford, hardly a backwoods place in the
mid-19th century. He also accepted Biblical chronology literally.
http://www.glenn.morton.btinternet.co.uk/nineteenth.htm
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