scripturist

Etymology

From Scripture + -ist.

noun

  1. One who is strongly attached to, or versed in, the Scriptures, or who endeavours to live by them.“The Puritan was a Scripturist,—a Scripturist with all his heart, if, as yet, with imperfect intelligence. […] [H]e cherished the scheme of looking to the Word of God as his sole and universal directory.”