bibliolatrical

See also: Bibliolatrical

English

Alternative forms

• bibliolatric
• Bibliolatrical

Etymology

From bibliolatry +‎ -ical.

Adjective

bibliolatrical (comparative more bibliolatrical, superlative most bibliolatrical)

1. Relating to or exhibiting bibliolatry.

   Synonym: bibliolatrous

   • 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:

     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.

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

     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. […]”

   • 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:

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

   • 1972, Llafur, volume 1/2, page 11:

     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.