Is this rhetorical? Authorial essentialism. This would be the belief that the text/words are imbued with a metaphysical attribute while the text is created tha

Is this rhetorical? Authorial essentialism. This would be the belief that the text/words are imbued with a metaphysical attribute while the text is created that depends on the properties of the author. This is sort of the same umbrella belief that underpins the "words in the Bible are written by God" conclusion that some people have. I'm guessing that you and I both aren't authorial essentialists, but as for a way people could believe this, it's not a stretch of the imagination.