Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

positivist

English answer:

concerned with positive facts and phenomena, and excluding speculation

Added to glossary by Ana Juliá
May 24, 2023 15:23
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English term

positivist ... history

English Art/Literary Religion Creationism
I do think it matters that something like a primal pair getting it wrong did happen, but that doesn’t mean I’m saying that therefore Genesis is kind of ***positivist, literal, clunky history*** over against myth. Far from it. I think for instance that the six days of Genesis — I’m with John Walton from Wheaton College on this — I think the six days of Genesis would be interpreted in terms of this is how you describe how people make a temple or a tabernacle.
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May 29, 2023 10:25: Ana Juliá changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/21487">Ana Juliá's</a> old entry - "positivist"" to ""concerned with positive facts and phenomena, and excluding...""

Discussion

Ana Juliá (asker) May 29, 2023:
@Domini Lucas Yes, I can access it, thanks.
Domini Lucas May 26, 2023:
@Ana Julia Thanks for clarifying. I understand better now. :-) There seems to be quite a lot on the internet in English on John Walton's work on Genesis which could prove useful to you. Can you access it from there or do you need some links?
Ana Juliá (asker) May 26, 2023:
@Domini Lucas It was written originally in English.
Domini Lucas May 25, 2023:
clunky Perhaps clumsy? Was this text originally written in English or is it translated?

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concerned with positive facts and phenomena, and excluding...

speculation upon ultimate causes or origins, not figurative or metaphorical, and graceless history.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/positivist
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/literal
https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/clunky?
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According to the author, he denies that the Genesis does not base only on positive facts and phenomena, straightforward and sound blunt compared to myth.
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