Dulia vs Hyperdulia - What's the difference?
As nouns the difference between dulia and hyperdulia is that dulia is the veneration of saints, distinguished from latria, the worship of god while hyperdulia is (roman catholicism) a level of veneration higher than dulia but less than latria, properly given to the virgin mary.
dulia
English
Noun
The veneration of saints, distinguished from latria, the worship of God
Derived terms
* hyperdulia
|
hyperdulia
English
Noun
(–)
(Roman Catholicism) A level of veneration higher than dulia but less than latria, properly given to the Virgin Mary.
*2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 451:
*:By the thirteenth century, the growth of devotion to Mary, the Mother of God, in both East and West led John of Damascus’s admirer Thomas Aquinas to formalize a further refinement: the concept of an exceptional sort of veneration, hyperdulia , offered only to the greatest of God’s creations, Mary, the mother of Jesus.
|