scriptural
adj/ˈskɹɪp.t͡ʃəɹəl/ · /ˈskɹɪp.t͡ʃʊɹəl/
Etymology From scripture + -al.
1
Of, relating to, or in accordance with scripture.
- When explicated in Augustine’s On Christian Teaching or in Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae, the ordo amoris emerges as a concept that is both cogent on its own terms—reciprocal obligations incurred through birth and upbringing are, after all, self-evidently stronger than those we freely undertake through choice or circumstance—and entirely consistent with the moral grammar of the scriptural witness.2025 January 31, James Orr, “JD Vance States the Obvious About Ordo Amoris”, in First Things, archived from the original on 08 Feb 2025:
- Antonyms
- antibiblical, antiorthodox, antiscriptural, exscriptural, heretical, heterodox, nonbiblical, nonorthodox, nonscriptural, unbiblical, unscriptural
- Derived terms
- scripturalism, scripturalist, scripturality, scripturally, scripturalness