biblicism
Noun
Meaning
Learning or literature relating to the Bible.
A term derived from the Bible
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Examples
It seems to me that these “biblical” views are so tightly bound to the person’s understanding of their own salvation and rightness before God that they can’t give up the ideas of biblicism without feeling as though they are renouncing their own faith.
Southern white preachers said: God had chastised them and given them a special mission – to maintain orthodoxy, strict biblicism, personal piety, and traditional race relations.
White Baptists expressed the view that: : God had chastised them and given them a special mission – to maintain orthodoxy, strict biblicism, personal piety, and traditional race relations.
Whites preachers expressed the view that: : God had chastised them and given them a special mission – to maintain orthodoxy, strict biblicism, personal piety, and traditional race relations.
But would you agree that progressive Christians can just as easily fall into the biblicism trap if a verse suits their particular issue?