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bibliolatry
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 over
that of the pope or the church, and by Protestants to an
excessive regard to the letter of the Scriptures.
--Coleridge.
--F. W. Newman.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1763, "worship of books," from biblio- + -latry. Meaning "worship of the Bible" is from 1847.\n
Wiktionary
n. fundamentalism, the belief in the literal truth of the Bible
WordNet
n. worship of the Bible [syn: Bible-worship]
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.
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.