Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
The third most important person in Christianity after Jesus and Paul, Saint Augustine, explicitly maintained that biblical interpretation should always be re-interpreted to conform to the latest accepted scholarly knowledge of the natural world -- and biblical literalism and inerrancy was never a tenet of Christianity until the Luther and Calvin made it a tenet of Protestantism
I'm not sure that either made it a 'tenet' - rather something that should never be clearly contradicted. A lot of early protestant stuff seems to me allegorical rather than literal.