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Inerrancy language and things like "scripture is its own interpreter" make sense until they are interpreted rationalistically.

Inigo Montoya Addresses Fundamentalists James F. McGrath 2009

This warns that although the math - ematical analogy elucidates, it does not violate the divine mystery and does not penetrate rationalistically into the divine essence itself.

IDEA OF GOD, 1400-1800 JAMES COLLINS 1968

He had taught that law was not to be manufactured rationalistically from a blueprint, but grew naturally out of the Volksgeist, like

HISTORIOGRAPHY HERBERT BUTTERFIELD 1968

Concerning the Scriptures, Luther did not express himself in a more rationalistic manner than Erasmus; nor did he interpret them more rationalistically.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

When the miracle is interpreted dramatically, by analogy to human life, we have mythology; when it is interpreted rationalistically, by analogy to current logic or natural science, we have metaphysics or theosophy.

The Life of Reason George Santayana 1907

What is a minute ago, rationalistically considered, except a tradition and a picture?

Tremendous Trifles 1905

Men take thought and ponder rationalistically, touching remote things -- things that only theoretically matter, such as the transit of Venus.

Heretics 1905

The Ten Plagues of Egypt are somewhat rationalistically handled, as having a true historical basis, but as explicable by natural phenomena, indigenous to Egypt in all ages.

Essays and Reviews: The Education of the World, Bunsen's Biblical Researches, On the Study of the Evidences of Christianity; Seances Historiques de Gen��ve; On the Mosaic Cosmogony; Tendencies of Religious Thought in England, 1688-1750; On the Interpretation of Scripture. 1821-1902 1860

And Christian culture is not produced rationalistically by extrapolating Christian ideas in forms that imitate the world.

la nouvelle théologie 2008

That rational element - which is characterized by its distance to things, by mental balance, for it is programmatically not dependent on either the moods and feelings of the lyrical state of mind or on the passions of the state of pathos - that rational element does not allow itself to be lulled into tranquillity; but neither does it hurl itself impatiently at any moral target: in our rationalistically utilitarian, practical civilization, it is sufficiently strongly rooted in our need to know, to acquire knowledge and use it.

Jaroslav Seifert - Nobel Lecture 1984