📚 noun • entry_id 51924
bibliolatry
Meanings (ES + gloss)
bibliolatra
Specifically, excessive reverence for, or worship of, the Bible or Qur'an, especially as taken literally.
Bibliolatry led to a phobia about swearing; rejection of the Bible made it possible again, and with it a release of the repressions which gave the Puritan middle class their moral…
the danger of bibliolatry is only too apparent in the contemptuous references often made by Christian authorities to the uselessness of pagan literature since access to the Bible h…
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