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  • Dan Keck@lemmy.sdf.org
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    9 days ago

    Thanks for sharing this article. This is a good quote: “the opposite of not being literal is not that it’s not true. The opposite of literal is to be interpretive.” Also, I’d never heard of mapping the stories in the gospels to observances in the liturgical year.