EVERY history, as well as every historical novel, contains two kinds of truth: first the factual and literal truth in the recording of actual events, people, places, and time; second, the ...

And “truth,” as in “exactly as said or written,” takes us back to “literally.” Recall that “literally” once pertained only to contrasting a literal versus metaphorical reading.

The literal truth of the Bible is the bedrock of faith for Southern Baptists. But lately, in some Baptist seminaries, scholars have been cautiously moving toward the Biblical criticism accepted by ...

Only a fool imagines that literal truth is required to be spoken under all circumstances. In the prashnottar-ratna-malika, ascribed to Adi Shankaracharya among others, the following question ...