The more I study scripture, the more I realize what an idol the printed word has become in evangelical Christianity. Wright has some good things to say about this in The Last Word: Beyond the Bible Wars to a New Understanding of the Authority of Scripture:

The phrase “authority of scripture” can make Christian sense only if it is a shorthand for “the authority of the triune God, exercised somehow through scripture.”

(The rest of the book tries to work out the “somehow”.)