bibliolatry

bibliolatry
    n 1: the worship of the Bible [syn: {bibliolatry}, {Bible-
         worship}]
    

Bibliolatry \Bib`li*ol"a*try\ (b[i^]b`l[i^]*[o^]l"[.a]*tr[y^]),
   n. [Gr. bibli`on book + latrei`a service, worship, latrey`ein
   to serve.]
   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.
   --Coleridge. --F. W. Newman.
   [1913 Webster]
    

62 Moby Thesaurus words for "bibliolatry":
      Sabbatarianism, bibliomania, bigotry, bluestockingism,
      book learning, book madness, bookiness, bookishness, booklore,
      charismatic gift, charismatic movement, charismatic renewal,
      classical scholarship, classicism, culture, dogmatism, donnishness,
      eruditeness, erudition, evangelicalism, fanaticism, fundamentalism,
      gift of tongues, glossolalia, hideboundness, humanism,
      humanistic scholarship, hyperorthodoxy, intellectualism,
      intellectuality, learnedness, letters, literacy, literalism,
      overdevoutness, overpiousness, overreligiousness,
      overrighteousness, overzealousness, pedantism, pedantry,
      pentecostalism, precisianism, purism, puritanicalness, puritanism,
      reading, revival, revivalism, sabbatism, sanctimony, scholarship,
      scripturalism, staunchness, stiff-neckedness, straitlacedness,
      strict interpretation, strictness, zeal, zealotism, zealotry,
      zealousness