Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An inferior kind of worship paid to saints and angels in the Roman Catholic Church. Also duly, doulia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (R. C. Ch.) An inferior kind of veneration or worship, given to the angels and saints as the servants of God.
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- noun The
veneration ofsaints , distinguished fromlatria , the worship of God
Etymologies
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Examples
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That the religious worship called dulia, as well as latria, belongeth to God alone (Rom.i. 9; xii. 11; xvi. 18 compared.) 13.
The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God. d. 1631 1842
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The present seems to be a convenient place for observing, that however the distinction is strongly insisted upon, or rather implicitly acquiesced in by many, which would admit of a worship or service called dulia (the Greek [Greek: douleia]) to saints and angels, and would limit the worship or service called latria ([Greek: latreia]) to the supreme
Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary James Endell Tyler 1820
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I will only detain you by one more example, drawn from two passages, which seems the more striking because each of the two words "dulia" and
Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary James Endell Tyler 1820
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Although Albrecht tries to re-characterize Dr. White's position, Dr. White's position remains that attempting to justify "dulia" as opposed "latria" of the saints (two forms of proskuneo of the saints) is without Biblical warrant.
Pros Apologian 2008
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Dei x), that "the homage due to man, of which the Apostle spoke when he commanded servants to obey their masters and which in Greek is called dulia, is distinct from latria which denotes the homage that consists in the worship of
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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Dei, X, ii, 1) distinguishes two kinds of servitus: "one which is due to men ... which in Greek is called dulia; the other, latria, which is the service pertaining to the worship of God".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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Vulg: servire.] [Footnote 16: It is also remarkable that in all these cases, whether the Septuagint employs the word "dulia," or "latria," the word in the Hebrew is precisely the same, [Hebrew: avad].
Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary James Endell Tyler 1820
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The Mises Institute's tribute to Rothbard on the tenth anniversary of his death savors of a cultic dulia:
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And they childishly trifle who make a pretext for their idolatry, in the words dulia and latria, [455] since the Scripture, in general terms, forbids adoration to be transferred to men.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996
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The request called upon Leo to enlighten his people by solemn definition concerning the pious belief that the Beatus Leibowitz was indeed a saint, worthy of the dulia of the Church as well as the veneration of the faithful.
A Canticle for Leibowitz Miller, Walter M. 1959
knitandpurl commented on the word dulia
"I won't say that what appears here are the words of a drunk. No, it's a dead man breathing life into his dulia, fragility that entangles the body and keeps it from any attempt to gather up all the inaccessible desire that blows away so jauntily on the breeze."
Talismano by Abdelwahab Meddeb, translated by Jane Kuntz, p 41 of the Dalkey Archive Press paperback
September 18, 2011