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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
bibliolatry
noun: worship of the Bible [syn: {Bible-worship}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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