Biblicist

[ bib-luh-sist ]

noun

1. a person who interprets the Bible literally.
2. a Biblical scholar.

Biblicist

/ ˈbɪblɪsɪst /

noun

1. a biblical scholar
2. a person who takes the Bible literally

Other Words From

• Bibli·cistic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of Biblicist¹

1830–40; < Medieval Latin biblic ( us ) ( Biblical ) + -ist

Example Sentences

“We are biblicist, that is what anchors our belief. It is a worldview, not something compartmentalised, not something that we do on Sundays. Our worldview drives everything,” he said.

From The Guardian

A biblical scholar; a biblicist.

From Project Gutenberg

Other contemporary theologians charged that Barth paid too little attention to the role of history and sociology in the development of Christianity and that he spoke a Biblicist language to modern men crying for a fresher mode of revelation.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Oxford Bible approved for Catholics leaves the RSV text and footnotes unchanged; instead, two Catholic scholars�Jesuit Biblicist W. Van Etten Casey of Holy Cross and Father Philip King of St. John's Seminary in Boston�merely made a few additions to the Oxford annotations that were approved by the Bible's Protestant editors.

From Time Magazine Archive

Samsonite still bears the image of Biblicist Jesse Shwayder, who founded it in 1910 with $3,500.

From Time Magazine Archive