Bible Quote by Northrop Frye

If Scripture has more than one meaning, it has no meaning at all.

— John Owen

“has been diminished in modern Christian thought. Some Definitions and Notes on Use It is important in a book like this to define some…

— Timothy Michael Law

The Bible for me is holy writ. It's a very straightforward thing, although I am not a literalist.

— Marilynne Robinson

The Bible was written in several languages, embraces many literary forms, and reflects cultures very different from our own. These are important considerations for…

— Troy Perry

I'm a real simple person. I believe that the Bible means what it says, and says what it means.

— Tammy Faye Bakker

There are two views of interpreting the Bible in America: that every word is literally the truth without qualification, and then the other view…

— Robert H. Schuller

It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision…

— Northrop Frye

“Scriptural interpretation is properly an ecclesial activity whose goal is to participate in the reality of which the text speaks by bending the knee…

— Ellen F. Davis

The Bible defines almost nothing because it isn't a book for scholars and philosophers or free thinkers. It's a book for people who want…

— Dallas Willard

The Bible is the statute-book of God's Kingdom, wherein is comprised the whole body of the heavenly law, the perfect rules of a holy…

— Ezekiel Hopkins

It is necessary for the Bible, in order to be accommodated to the understanding of every man, to speak many things which appear to…

— Galileo Galilei

“allegorical interpretation. This was one of the most influential approaches to biblical interpretation until the Reformation of the sixteenth century. The roots of allegorical…

— Nathan P. Feldmeth