Biblical literalism

The term biblicism emerges especially in polemical controversial theological disputes. He referred to a rigoristic biblical interpretation, which claims to understand all or almost all the texts of the Bible literally. Biblicism is a theological school of thought in Protestantism of the 19th century.

Hermeneutics

Be distinguished from biblicism is the general Sola scriptura - principle, which states that teachings that can not be justified from the Bible, are to be rejected. No distinction is whether the statements do not occur in the Bible, or whether they even contradict the overall context.

The biblicism leads beyond. After his view the entire text of the Bible is to be taken literally and that the statements are therefore not as a historical or scientific statements to doubt. As a result of biblicist understanding of the Holy Scriptures of the short-term creationism is often cited as an example.

Sociology

At the top of biblicism in the 19th century is Gottfried Menken. When her most important and most effective representative shall Johann Tobias Beck.