{"id":391,"date":"2025-01-21T21:39:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T21:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.craigladams.com\/?p=391"},"modified":"2025-01-21T21:44:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T21:44:32","slug":"n-t-wright-on-literal-interpretation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.craigladams.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/21\/n-t-wright-on-literal-interpretation\/","title":{"rendered":"N. T. Wright on &#8220;Literal&#8221; Interpretation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is a follow-up to <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.craigladams.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/20\/what-does-it-mean-to-take-the-bible-literally\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"329\">my recent post<\/a> about <strong>taking the Bible literally<\/strong> \u2014 whatever that means!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not the only one who wonders about the use of the word &#8220;literal&#8221; in relation to the Bible. Here is N. T. Wright discussing the use of this word in relation to our reading and interpretation of the Scripture. &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"N.T. Wright and Pete Enns: What Do You Mean by Literal?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fxQpFosrTUk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a follow-up to my recent post about taking the Bible literally \u2014 whatever that means! I&#8217;m not the only one who wonders about the use of the word &#8220;literal&#8221; in relation to the Bible. Here is N. T. Wright discussing the use of this word in relation to our reading and interpretation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,20],"tags":[45,174,176,171],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bible","category-theology","tag-bible","tag-literal","tag-literal-interpeatation","tag-n-t-wright"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.craigladams.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.craigladams.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.craigladams.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.craigladams.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.craigladams.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.craigladams.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396,"href":"https:\/\/blog.craigladams.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.craigladams.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.craigladams.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.craigladams.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.craigladams.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}