Bibliolatry (Noun)
Meaning
The worship of the Bible.
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Examples
- Critics argue that a literal interpretation of scripture can lead to bibliolatry, elevating the written word above human experience and moral intuition.
- In their opinion, some forms of Protestantism had become infected with bibliolatry, exalting scripture above the original Christian experience of Jesus.
- Scholars also identify a second challenge of bibliolatry: The mistaken idea that we should prioritize knowing and mastering scripture above actual relationships and direct communication with the living God.
- Although she still reveres scripture as divinely inspired, her theological pursuits ultimately encourage followers to rise above the perceived limits of bibliolatry and relate directly with the transcendent source that made those written revelations possible.
- Faced with numerous Christian groups worshiping through scriptural means but dismissing broader personal interactions and worship through all available art, reason, love and devotion to people as aspects of love and care - to Jesus himself as real expressions - charges them of worshiping dead objects instead and claims these all in combination also do what critics consider being biblio-latrists who value literal textual verses or man-servingly-salvage-paste human connotations alone for endless dead expressions' support against timeless connotation-beset beauty living creatively well-in-deal 'reserving Christ or of Christian essence not but his-idea just when instead always biblically supported & many love still within beauty without further comment when already very sadly speaking already it goes unprayed thus its - with another still-reliably felt interpretation adding there: indeed Jesus knows very, much loved always no-one understands of faith however best many were worshipers here worship all kinds were most completely felt if thus would yet.