Racial and ethnic composition among lutherans in the Mainline Tradition by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among lutherans in the Mainline Tradition by race/ethnicity
% of lutherans in the Mainline Tradition who identify as…
Interpreting scripture | White | Black | Asian | Latino | Other/Mixed | Sample size |
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Word of God; should be taken literally | 92% | 2% | 3% | 3% | < 1% | 147 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 98% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 1% | 355 |
Not the word of God | 92% | 2% | 2% | 1% | 4% | 263 |
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