bibliolatrical

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1. Relating to or exhibiting bibliolatry.

   As mentioned above, preaching must be biblical, but not bibliolatrical!

   1934 spring, E[lmer] G[eorge] Homrighausen, “The Preaching of Karl Barth and Eduard Thurneysen”, in Religion in Life: A Christian Quarterly, volume III, number 2, section II, page 238

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   May we not, without any ecclesiastic or bibliolatrical evasion, assert—that the Spirit, which prompted and potenziated the minds of the Prophets and Psalmists, provided by a series of providential events for the spiritual interpretation & application of their words—now by rendering the primary purpose obsolete, gone-by, and now by the non-fulfilment of the predictions in the sense first understood by the Contemporaries of the inspired Men—while yet the veneration and esteem of the Writings themselves not only were not diminished by this—but greatly, very greatly increased— / Nay, the true religious Awe & Value of these Books, the more than life-valuing of them, may be said to have commenced from the time that the apparent falsification of their promises, the failure of their literal sense, became evident.

   1829 August 26, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, edited by Kathleen Coburn and Anthony John Harding, The Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, volumes 5 (1827–1834), Routledge, published 2002, →ISBN

   A Frenchman, whose blood is free, one may conjecture, from any taint of that bibliolatrical virus which makes us Protestants such purblind students of the Bible, gives us, in the mouth of one of his dramatis personæ, the following estimate of the God of Israel: “Le Dieu de la Bible est un vieux Juif maniaque et monomane, un fou furieux, qui passe son temps à gronder, menacer, hurler comme un loup enragé, delirer tout seul, enfermé dans son nuage.[…]”

   1914, Edmond Holmes, In Defence of What Might Be, London: Constable & Company Ltd., pages 350–351

   It is a statement, not a criticism, that the whole conception of religion seems to have been too narrowly individualistic, sabbatarian, bibliolatrical and other-worldly.

   1972, Llafur, volume 1/2, page 11

   Synonyms: bibliolatrous

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1. Alternative letter-case form of bibliolatrical (“relating to or exhibiting worship of the Bible”).

   The volume is, in fact, Bibliolatrical rather than Shaksperian.

   1879 June 14, “Current Literature”, in The Academy: A Weekly Review of Literature, Science, and Art, volume XV, number 371, London: […] Robert Scott Walker, […], page 519, column 1

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   Erasmus remarks concerning a Bibliolatrical application: neque laboratur de litterarum apiculis, cum constet non pauca etiam volumina V. T. (and so also of the New) intercidisse.

   1860, A[ugust] Tholuck, translated by R. Lundin Brown, Commentary on the Sermon on the Mount, Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, […]; London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co.; Dublin: John Robertson, pages 135–136

   Compared to the ordinary run of “orthodox” and Bibliolatrical polemics, he is rational and charitable.

   1867 March 29, ““Liber Librorum.””, in The Pall Mall Gazette: An Evening Newspaper and Review, volume V, number 666, page 11, column 2

   […] the Word of God, and the extreme Protestant or Bibliolatrical theory finds its complete justification.

   1889, William Skinner, Jehovah Unveiled, or, The Character of the Jewish Deity Delineated: […], Boston: […] J. P. Mendum, page 32

   One is the distillation of the most degenerate kind of Bibliolatrical Protestantism, while the other is a borrowing from the liberal German-nationalistic strain in Continental Protestantism.

   1989, Fidelity, volume 9, Wanderer Forum Foundation, page 8, column 3