fundamentalism, the belief in the literal truth of the Bible
1992, Frederick Burwick, Poetic Madness and the Romantic Imagination, "bibliolatry" (the fundamentalist insistence on the literal truth of "the Bible as the Word of God")
1972, John Hoyles, The edges of Augustanism: the aesthetics of spirituality in Thomas Ken, John Byrom and William Law, in subsequent poems Byrom coins the word "bibliolatry" to characterize Warburton's literalism. ... The exponents of bibliolatry rely on the letter and make the spirit dependent on the letter
excessive reverence of the Bible, Qur'an, or other book
1909, James Allanson Picton, Man and the Bible: A Review of the Place of the Bible in Human History, 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 had been secured by the Church.
2008, Michael J. Cook, Modern Jews Engage the New Testament: Enhancing Jewish Well-being in a Christian Environment, Some sectors of the religious world have been accused ... of "bibliolatry," that is, valuing their Bible itself so highly that they are almost guilty of idolatry.
