This is a challenge for some forms of religious faith that perceive humans separate from other organisms and emphasize the literal interpretation of the Bible (Numbers [1982], McGrath [2010]).
Opposing the School of Alexandria was the School of Antioch, which emphasized the literal interpretation of the Bible.
Instead he colourfully and intensely preached "the old-fashioned gospel," emphasizing a literal interpretation of the Bible and looking toward the premillennial Second Coming.
In 2006, Breyer said that in assessing a law's constitutionality, while some of his colleagues "emphasize language, a more literal reading of the [Constitution's] text, history and tradition", he looks more closely to the "purpose and consequences".
Sometimes called "body-on-a-chip," we prefer "physiome-on-a-chip" to emphasize function rather than literal reproduction of the body.
In the ballet of the French aristocracy, different body types were assigned to different character types — tall people played nobles, shorter people played comic roles — and, in a dance, the choreography emphasized the king's literal superiority over the court.
Using modest, ready-to-hand techniques and a format that seems to emphasize the most banal, literal-minded, artless aspects of picture taking, Mr. Panahi has constructed a subtle, strange and haunting work of art.
Literally his literal genitals.
In recent years, mainline Protestant denominations — which are different from evangelical Christian churches that read the Bible as literal truth and emphasize a personal relationship with Jesus — have one by one changed rules that had prohibited marriage and ordination of gays and lesbians.
The translations emphasized conceptual and cultural rather than literal translations.
