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Bibliolatry  n.  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.





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... this doctrine. Of minor importance, yet not to be overlooked, are the forced and fantastic interpretations, the arbitrary allegories and mystic expansions of proper names, to which this indiscriminate Bibliolatry furnished fuel, spark, and wind. A still greater evil, and less attributable to the visionary humour and weak judgment of the individual expositors, is the literal rendering of Scripture in passages, which the number ...
— Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit etc. • by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Words linked to "Bibliolatry" :   bibliolatrous, Bible-worship, devotion, cultism


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