I don't mean literal belief: fictions admit that they are invented, right on the cover.

This means literal belief and cost him, for one thing, much of his sense of humor.

Lives guided by religious faith, including literal beliefs in holy scriptures, are common to every religion, and represent no threat to us.

Some scholars think this is a metaphor, rather than a literal belief or dogma.

Revelations led to public outrage, particularly in Scotland, where there was great reverence for the dead and a literal belief in the Resurrection.

Increasingly, something similar seems to be happening when "conservative" values (like a literal belief in the Bible) get taught at the expense of evolutionary science.

He has also defended a literal belief in the Second Coming and the resurrection of the dead as central to Christianity.

He points out that many modern religious believers do not cleave to the kind of literal belief in God imputed to them by militant atheism.

Contemporary use of the term End Times has evolved from literal belief in Christian millennialism.

Exaltation is often referred to as being a more literal belief in both the ancient and modern Christian doctrine of deification or divinization.