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Answer for the clue "Worship of the Bible ", 11 letters:
bibliolatry

Word definitions for bibliolatry in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bibliolatry \Bib`li*ol"a*try\ (b[i^]b`l[i^]*[o^]l"[.a]*tr[y^]), n. [Gr. bibli`on book + latrei`a service, worship, latrey`ein to serve.] Book worship, esp. of the Bible; -- applied by Roman Catholic divines to the exaltation of the authority of the Bible ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. worship of the Bible [syn: Bible-worship ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bibliolatry (from the Greek βιβλίον biblion , "book" and the suffix -λατρία -latria , "worship") is the worship of a particular book or worshiping the description of a deity found within a particular book.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. fundamentalism, the belief in the literal truth of the Bible

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1763, "worship of books," from biblio- + -latry . Meaning "worship of the Bible" is from 1847.\n

Usage examples of bibliolatry.

But believing as they did that the popular respect for the Bible was sheer Bibliolatry, and that therefore the dignity of reason was compromised, they bestirred themselves to show every weak point in the faith of the church.

A second patent cause of the mania was the zeal and the bibliolatry of Protestantism.

Whereas, he thinks, Protestantism has died, or is dying, as a religion, it still exists as a mood, as bibliolatry, as a national and political cult, as a scientific and technical motive-power, and, last but not least, as the ethos and pathos of the Germanic peoples.

The Swiss and the Anabaptists added their voices to this chorus of bibliolatry.