who only by moving can balance

I have degrees in both theology and law, and AFAICS literalism in theology never seriously occurred to anyone before the so-called Enlightenment, and in law is an eccentricity unique to the British legal system and its colonial derivatives, from which the EU is thankfully gradually managing to prise British judges away. So yeah, I don't think very highly of it in either field, and I also agree that a person who is predisposed to it in one field is likely to be predisposed to it in the other as well, and to be of a generally conservative mindset.