Bibliolatry

bibliolatry English Etymology From en Biblio latry. Noun - en bibliolatry the worship of the Bible. en Art. VIII.—The Annals of the English Bible, by Christopher Anderson. London: William Pickering. 1845. 2 vols. octavo. [book review] Southern Quarterly Review Charleston, S.C. Published for the proprietor April 1846 IX XVIII 481 https://books.google.com/books?id=5rQRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA481 1066047533 [I]f this is the rational reverence of Protestantism,—it cannot be long before the ingenuity of our enemies compiles the annals of Bibliolatry, abounding, if not with sad impieties, yet with absurdities as numberless and as noxious as the thousand and one Mariolatries, with which our controversialists are armed. en w:Augustus Clissold The Literal and Spiritual Senses of Scripture in Their Relations to Each Other and to the Reformation of the Church.Being an Address to the Swedenborg Society on the Occasion of the Fifty-Seventh Anniversary, June 18th, 1867. London Longmans, Green, & Co.,Paternoster Row 1867 63 To account the Scripture holy, and yet to deny its spiritual sense, is mere Bibliolatry; and this is the real origin of the charge of Bibliolatry so frequently made in the present day; in which point of view the charge is a just one. en James Parkes Man’s Disorder and God’s Design. The Amsterdam Assembly series, in four volumes:I. The Universal Church in God’s Design, II. The Church’s Witness to God’s Design, III. The Church and the Disorder of Society, IV. The Church and the International Disorder. London: S.C.M. Press. 12s. 6d. each. w:The Hibbert Journal 47 3 1948 302 https://archive.org/details/sim_the-hibbert-journal-a-quarterly-review-of-religion_1948-1949_47_3/page/302/mode/1up We are apparently to go back, not to fundamentalism, but to a still earlier phase of man’s religious development, and regard the Bible as some mysterious and supernatural fetish, redolent rather of primitive magic and tabus than of a conference of Christians in 1948. When this new and disquieting Bibliolatry approaches the problems of life, it is inevitably gnostical rather than mystical in its emphases, escapist not realist in its impulses. en Betty McCollister Creation ‘science’ vs. religious attitudes USA Today 124 2612 74 May 1996 Other clerical plaintiffs were the Methodist, Roman Catholic, Episcopal, and African Methodist Episcopal bishops of Arkansas, joined by representatives from Presbyterians, Southern Baptists, and Reform Jews. Methodist Bishop Hicks condemned the presumptuousness of Bibliolatry: that puny man limits God's power to the dimensions of the human mind.