Sentences with word «bibliolatry»

He says also that some signs of bibliolatry toward the Granth are to be found among the people (p. 122).
Our devotion to and relationship with the Bible can, of course, wander into bibliolatry.
While evangelicals often adopt a narrow, literalist view of Scripture that borders on bibliolatry, I've spoken with mainliners who admit that they are embarrassingly illiterate when it comes to the Bible.
When reading the Bible and participating in the Sacraments and other means of Grace become ends in themselves and objects of faith then the Church is teaching bibliolatry and ecclesiolatry and comes an impediment, not an inducement to true faith.
After reading the Westminster Confession, I could understand why so many Evangelicals seem to fall into the error of bibliolatry.
The plea is to «break free» from a fundamentalist interpretation of the bible, which is a moralistic, ahistorical hermeneutic that bows to the authority of the «written word» (bibliolatry) more faithfully than to the Christ Jesus, the Living Word of God.
Reading the Westminster Confession, I could understand why «bibliolatry» was so common among Evangelicals.
A dualistic radical opposition of Grace to nature has led to bibliolatry, the denial of the human element in the process of Revelation.
Luther himself warned against ecclesiolatry and bibliolatry that is rife in contemporary MS Lutheran Churches.
Apologist J.P. Morland wrote in a 2007 article, «Today, I am more convinced of inerrancy than at any time in my Christian life, but the charge of bibliolatry, or at least a near, if not kissing cousin, is one I fear is hard to rebut.
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