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Bibliolatry   Listen
noun
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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... seven letters of his on the inspiration of Scripture were published, under the title of Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit. This little book has done more than any other of Coleridge's writings to discredit his name with the orthodox. The frequent occurrence in it of the word 'bibliolatry', borrowed from Lessing, would sufficiently account for this pious hatred. From bibliolatry Coleridge was saved by the spiritualism, which, in questions less simple than that of the infallibility of Scripture, ...
— English Critical Essays - Nineteenth Century • Various



Words linked to "Bibliolatry" :   cultism, bibliolatrous, devotion



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