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Definition of Symbololatry
1. Noun. The worship of symbols.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Symbololatry
Literary usage of Symbololatry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"... but it was a revolt of reason against the tyranny of symbololatry, and proved
a wholesome purgatory of orthodoxy. Schaf, Christ and Christianity, p. ..."
2. Theological Monthly by Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod (1922)
"People do not hesitate to call this adherence symbololatry, that is, idolatrous
veneration of the Confessions. They say to us: Tou Lutherans place the ..."
3. Lives of the Fathers: Sketches of Church History in Biography by Frederic William Farrar (1889)
"... esse veritatem disciplinae et fidei Christianae, illic erit veritas Scripturarum."
This resembles the worst forms of post-Reformation symbololatry. ..."
4. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1888)
"... with one of the endless formulae of the prevailing symbololatry. Alike the
Greek and the usage of words absolutely forbid any such interpretation, ..."
5. Bibliotheca Sacra and American Biblical Repository (1851)
"In all this it sees at once " bondage to the letter," the " mechanism of forms," "
dry scholasticism," " symbololatry," and the like. ..."
6. The Creeds of Christendom: With a History and Critical Notes by Philip Schaff (1877)
"... reacting against the opposite extreme of symbololatry and ultra-orthodoxy,
swept away these test-oaths, or reduced them to a hypocritical formality. ..."
7. Theological Propædeutic: A General Introduction to the Study of Theology by Philip Schaff, Samuel Macauley Jackson (1893)
"It was a reaction against bibliolatry and symbololatry. It emancipated the mind
from the tyranny of dogmatic systems. It aimed at a true historical ..."
8. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"... but it was a revolt of reason against the tyranny of symbololatry, and proved
a wholesome purgatory of orthodoxy. Schaf, Christ and Christianity, p. ..."
9. Theological Monthly by Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod (1922)
"People do not hesitate to call this adherence symbololatry, that is, idolatrous
veneration of the Confessions. They say to us: Tou Lutherans place the ..."
10. Lives of the Fathers: Sketches of Church History in Biography by Frederic William Farrar (1889)
"... esse veritatem disciplinae et fidei Christianae, illic erit veritas Scripturarum."
This resembles the worst forms of post-Reformation symbololatry. ..."
11. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1888)
"... with one of the endless formulae of the prevailing symbololatry. Alike the
Greek and the usage of words absolutely forbid any such interpretation, ..."
12. Bibliotheca Sacra and American Biblical Repository (1851)
"In all this it sees at once " bondage to the letter," the " mechanism of forms," "
dry scholasticism," " symbololatry," and the like. ..."
13. The Creeds of Christendom: With a History and Critical Notes by Philip Schaff (1877)
"... reacting against the opposite extreme of symbololatry and ultra-orthodoxy,
swept away these test-oaths, or reduced them to a hypocritical formality. ..."
14. Theological Propædeutic: A General Introduction to the Study of Theology by Philip Schaff, Samuel Macauley Jackson (1893)
"It was a reaction against bibliolatry and symbololatry. It emancipated the mind
from the tyranny of dogmatic systems. It aimed at a true historical ..."
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