Letterism    John Granville Woolley Civic Sermons   The ignorant dogmatic letterist may groan over the apostate church and watch  for the Lord to dishonor her and stultify Himself but there is no apostate  church The crowd that puts on its best clothes on Sunday and goes to meeting the aggregate of the parish censuses is not the church But in that there is the old true church unscathed and undiscouraged She has held up Christ straight through the centuries and the crowd has come to her with many aims and many isms and many sins    Ernst Hofer The Lariat   Greek letterism    Richard M Edwards Scriptural Perspicuity in the Early English Reformation in Historical Theology  The Antiochenes literalist opposed the Alexandrian Schools letterist interpretive methodology founded on the GreekJewish allegorical interpretive methodology    Mal Couch Russell Penney An introduction to classical evangelical hemeneutics a guide to the history  Following the Babylonian captivity the Jewish rabbis fell into the quasiworship of even the letters of scripture adopting letterism as a springboard to allegorization and spiritualization They committed the sin about which Paul later wrote The letter kills but the spirit gives life  Cor  To their credit not all the rabbis fell into letterism or later allegory    Erica W Townsend Papers for the V Congress of Southeast European Studies Belgrade Sep