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| | Encyclopedia: Latria |
 | | Latria is a Greek term used in Catholic theology to mean adoration, which is the highest form of worship or reverence and is directed only to God. | | | Latria is a Greek term used in Roman Catholic theology to refer to the highest form of worship of God. | | | The former assertion is a question of historical fact which Catholics answer with the writings of the early Christians and the Church Fathers ; the latter is a matter of Scriptural interpretation, which Catholics contend is determined by the Church's Magisterium (bound by "Sacred Tradition"), and which Protestants contend is determined by the individual. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Latria
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| | Summa Theologica |
| | Objection 2: Further, Christ's humanity is worshiped with the adoration of "latria," inasmuch as it is united to the Son of God in Person. | | | Objection 1: It would seem that the Mother of God is to be worshiped with the adoration of "latria." For it seems that the same honor is due to the king's mother as to the king: whence it is written (3 Kgs. | | | Therefore the worship of "latria" is not due to her. |
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http://www.godrules.net/library/summa/TP025.htm
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| | Latria (Worship), Dulia (Honor), and Veneration of the Saints by Raymond Cote |
| | As absolute latria, it is given to God, as the Trinity, or one of the Divine Persons, Christ as God and man, the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and the Holy Eucharist. | | | I think the Church has made it clear that She distinguishes between worship (latria) and veneration or honor of the saints (dulia) not that She uses "...a number of different terms relevant to the concept of worship". | | | Latria (Worship), Dulia (Honor), and Veneration of the Saints by Raymond Cote |
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http://www.bringyou.to/apologetics/a97.htm
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| | ABS-CBN Interactive |
| | Latria refers to the sacrificial worship that is due to God alone. | | | In his Institutes of the Christian Religion, this champion of the Protestant Reformation noted that the "distinction of what is called dulia and latria was invented for the very purpose of permitting divine honors to be paid to angels and dead men with apparent impunity." | | | Dulia is a kind of honor given to relics, icons and saints. |
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http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=26933
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| | The Institues Book 1, Chapter 12 |
| | But because it was impossible that a worship connected with religion should not savour somewhat of divine worship, he could not "proskunein" (do obeisance to) the angel without derogating from the glory of God. | | | Passages of Scripture subversive of the Papistical distinction, and proving that religious worship is due to God alone. | | | The distinction of what is called dulia and latria was invented for the very purpose of permitting divine honours to be paid to angels and dead men with apparent impunity. |
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/939473/posts
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| | SUMMA THEOLOGICA: Is dulia a special virtue, distinct from latria? |
| | It is, moreover, a species of observance, because by observance we honor all those who excel in dignity, while dulia properly speaking is the reverence of servants for their master, dulia being the Greek for servitude. | | | 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 God." | | | Just as religion is called piety by way of excellence, inasmuch as God is our Father by way of excellence, so again latria is called dulia by way of excellence, inasmuch as God is our Lord by way of excellence. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/summa/310303.htm
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| | Jacques Maritain Center: GC 3.120 |
| | That the Worship of Latria is to be paid to God alone | | | Therefore the worship of latria, due to the sovereign master, is to be paid only to the sovereign principle of the universe. | | | But God's providence disposes all things to their due actions: hence in Holy Writ the angels and the heavenly bodies are said to minister both to God, whose ordinance they execute, and to us, to whose benefit their actions tend. |
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http://www.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/etext/gc3_120.htm
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| | The adoration that is due to God is termed latria or divine worship. | | | However, the worship of latria is not directed to the wood, but to our divine Lord. | | | It is absolutely owed to God Himself, and hence to the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity and to Our Lord Jesus Christ. |
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http://www.sspx.ca/Angelus/2004_January/Questions.htm
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| | Latria is the "worship" and "adoration" allowed to God alone; whereas, dulia and hyperdulia are forms of respect and veneration given to worthy creatures. | | | Protestants who make such claims against Catholics, based on observing Catholic practices alone and assuming to comprehend them, might serve themselves, their constituents, and Catholics well by doing a little more research, and by showing a little more charity- and by avoiding the bearing of false witness which is a capital crime in God’s eyes. | | | Such worship is never afforded Mary or the Pope in the Catholic faith. |
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http://www.catholic-convert.com/Portals/57ad7180-c5e7-49f5-b282-c6475cdb7ee7/Documents/MaryAndWorship.doc
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| | Is Mary Worshiped by Catholics? (The Latria / Dulia Distinction) |
| | The reverence which, according to Orthodox and RC theology, may be paid to the saints, as contrasted with hyperdulia, which may be paid only to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and latria (Gk., latreia), which is reserved for God alone. | | | As contrasted with dulia, that fullness of Divine worship which may be paid to God alone. | | | So, as usual, so-called exclusively "Catholic" words are found to have a completely biblical basis, and to follow the distinction even present in the pre-biblical Greek etymology, since the Latin dulia and latria are directly derived from the Greek. |
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http://ic.net/~erasmus/RAZ204.HTM
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| | Catholic Culture : Document Library : Kneeling and Faith in the Eucharist |
| | Kneeling, as an act of latria, is also the greatest testimony to the Incarnation, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, and it is in perfect harmony with standing during other times in prayer on Sundays to demonstrate the Church's victory over sin through the Resurrection. | | | One must understand that the teaching regarding latria in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament is no mere liturgical rubric or disciplinary law of the Church. | | | Consequently, deliberately to exclude all acts of latria from the Eucharist, would be to refuse to acknowledge the Incarnation or Jesus Christ coming in the flesh. |
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http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=242
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| | Saint Worship? |
| | As the terminology of Christian theology developed, the Greek term latria came to be used to refer to the honor that is due to God alone, and the term dulia came to refer to the honor that is due to human beings, especially those who lived and died in God’s friendship—in other words, the saints. | | | In Scripture, the term "worship" was similarly broad in meaning, but in the early Christian centuries, theologians began to differentiate between different types of honor in order to make more clear which is due to God and which is not. | | | However, since Mary is a finite creature, the honor she is due is fundamentally different in kind from the latria owed to the infinite Creator. |
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http://www.catholic.com/library/Saint_Worship.asp
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| | Finally, it is clear that Jesus Christ cannot be a human being or created being because we are called upon by the Church to adore Jesus Christ with "the worship known as 'latria' (act of adoration) which may be given to God alone."42 But, it is idolatry to adore anything created. | | | They know that the Church teaches that the act of "latria (act of adoration)" is to be given to the Blessed Sacrament. | | | They also know that "true latria according to our faith... |
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http://www.catholic.net/RCC/Periodicals/Faith/0506-97/sacrem1.html
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| | Images |
| | No one can know what is going on in the mind of a Catholic who is kneeling before a statue, but the very fact that the words used in many devotional prayers smack of worship, it is certainly safer to obey the second commandment and not bow down to images. | | | Catholics are very sensitive about this issue, and more enlightened modern Catholics like to hide behind the use of the term veneration or the theological distinctions between latria and the lesser devotions of dulia and hyperdulia. | | | You can call the devotion to saints veneration, dulia, hyperdulia, protodulia, relative latria (a term used by Thomas Aquinas), latria or worship. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/ky/dodone/ImageW.html
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| | Mary FAQ #20 |
| | However, the Church also acknowledged that certain persons, though only creatures of God, are entitled to honor or veneration of a qualitatively lesser degree than the absolute allegiance owed to God. | | | The Ecumenical Council held at Nicaea in 787 considered the issue of veneration which is not directed to the Divine persons in relation to sacred images. | | | At this Council, the Church taught that the special type of worship called adoration may only be offered to God: Latria from the Greek term for enslavement. |
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http://www.udayton.edu/mary/questions/faq/faq20.html
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| | "Mariolatry"??? |
| | Latria is a Greek noun which occurs five times in the New Testament (Jn 16:2; Romans 9:4; 12:1; Hebrews 9:1, 6). | | | The term Mariolatry consists of two Greek words: Mariam, Mary, and latria, divine worship. | | | So latria clearly connotes the holy service of temple worship, particularly the offering of sacrifices to God. |
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http://home.nyc.rr.com/mysticalrose/marian12.html
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| | EUCHARISTIC PIETY |
| | The doctrine of the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist is one of those wonderful truths by which Christianity shines forth as a religion of mysteries far exceeding the capacity of the human mind. | | | It is also true that a private interior act of worship would suffice to fulfill this act of faith, but good liturgy by its very nature should be a public expression of one's Faith. | | | The act of reverence strongly recommended by the Sacred Congregations here appears to be more than a mere reverential act toward holy things like bowing the head, folding of the hands, or the sign of the Cross. |
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http://www.ewtn.com/library/SPIRIT/EUPIETY.HTM
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| | Maurice De La Taille, S. J. |
| | This is the teaching of those theologians who say that the Most High God, the supreme Lord of life and death, could not be perfectly honoured or worshipped without the deprivation of life and the infliction of death, but seeing that this was neither lawful nor becoming, the slaying of an animal was substituted. | | | There appears, then, to be no reason why we should attribute sacrifices in blood to the obligation of latria, saying, so to speak, that the destruction of life in itself pays honour to God. | | | Propitiation, however, since it includes the concept of compensation for injury done to the divine right, is an actual recognition of the injured right of God, and thus includes a latreutic attitude towards the divine excellence; indeed it is simply a kind of latria, appropriate to the state of the sinner. |
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http://www.ewtn.com/library/THEOLOGY/MYOFFAIT.HTM
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| | When Is Worship Not Worship? |
| | Some Catholic apologists might be quick to point to the differences between dulia and latria as evidence that Catholics do not worship Mary or any of the saints in the Roman Pantheon. | | | The unique adoration and reverence paid to God, called latria; the word is sometimes used for the honour paid to the saints (dulia), but this is better distinguished by some word such as "veneration." (Donald Attwater, Ed., A Catholic Dictionary, The MacMillan Company:New York (1942); w/Nihil Obstat and Imprimitur). | | | if it is addressed directly to God, it is superior, absolute, supreme worship, or worship of adoration, or, according to the consecrated theological term, a worship of latria. |
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http://www.sxws.com/charis/apol28.htm
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| | Catholic saints and idols |
| | The first being “latria” which is the worship given to God alone. | | | This is said to be the highest form of worship. | | | My answer is that the Bible knows nothing of such distinctions; and that, in the actual practice of the great bulk of Roman Catholics, they have no existence at all” (John Charles Ryle (1815-1900), Anglican Bishop of Liverpool). |
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| | Same that they had the pleasure of catching him, the pleasure of punishing him shall be theirs. | | | It was said, later, that the TPH were trying to deliver a message to the Latria. | | | At the same time, Lara Heartfield of the Spectral Court is taught of the same belief Yamila so openly rejects and disrespects. |
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http://fab30mai80.free.fr/html/IC.htm
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| | We Don't Worship Mary
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| | However, historically in Catholic theology, there are three orders of worship: “Dulia”, for the saints, “hyperdulia” for Mary, and “latria” the highest form of worship reserved to God alone. | | | That unusual Catholic, one who has made at least some small effort to learn something of the dogmas and doctrines of his Church, might respond by citing the different forms of worship Catholics are to render to spirit beings. | | | There are several degrees of this worship: if it is addressed directly to God, it is superior, absolute, supreme worship, or worship of adoration, or, according to the consecrated theological term, a worship of latria. |
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http://www.sxws.com/charis/mary26.htm
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| | Veneration of Mary |
| | Adoration, or latria, is the worship reserved to God, who is praised and adored as the Supreme Being, infinitely perfect in every way. | | | We worship God fully aware that He is the Supreme Being and infinitely perfect, and this is latria. | | | We honor Mary aware that she is inferior to God, but God's holiest creature, and this is hyperdulia. |
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http://www.catholic-forum.com/members/catholictracts/tract70.html
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| | New Catholic Dictionary: latria |
| | Absolute latria is due exclusively to God, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; to the Son in His Divinity and Humanity, in His local and sacramental Presence. | | | Representations of God and things connected with God may receive relative latria. |
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http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/ncd04654.htm
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| | Chapter 5 |
| | "Latria" is the kind of worship which is due to God alone. | | | Because of these three words, Catholic theologians say that Catholics do not worship Mary. | | | Catholic theologians speak of three degrees of homage, which have Latin words. |
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| | CRI's Attack on Mary: Part VI (This Rock: January 1993) |
| | Catholic and Orthodox theologians make a sharp distinction between latria (adoration), the supreme worship rightly given to God alone; dulia (veneration and invocation), given to the saints in heaven and to the angels; and hyperdulia (special veneration and invocation), offered to Mary, the Mother of God and most exalted of God's creatures. | | | Rather we know and daily experience that the saints, and most of all our Blessed Mother, instruct and edify us by the example of their Christlike lives. | | | I will sing with the spirit and I will sing with the mind also" (1 Cor. |
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| | Pope Worship? |
| | Catholics and other Christians of all denominations rightly use this verse to show that human beings should not receive divine worship (latria), the honor and service due God alone. | | | Though many anti-Catholics don't believe that St. Peter was the first Pope, they will use this verse to try to prove that it is wrong to pay any kind of homage to the Holy Father: "See? | | | But Peter took him up, saying, Stand up; I myself also am a man. (Acts 10:25-26) |
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| | Venerating Mary and the Saints |
| | What is properly divine worship, which the Greeks call latria, and for which there is no word in Latin, both in doctrine and in practice, we give only to God... | | | For holy beings themselves, whether saints or angels, refuse to accept what they know to be due to God alone. | | | The distinction St. Augustine alluded to was between the Greek term latria, which is worship given to God alone, and dulia, which is giving honor and glory to God or His creatures. |
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| | SoMA Review - To Creed, or Not to Creed |
| | For the Senate to declare one god meant they would receive the worship of "latria," which Christians have always claimed is due only to God. | | | The worship of "latria" when given to mortal creatures amounts to idolatry, and has been spoken out against again and again by the Church (cf. | | | Plutarch "Roman Lives," Caesar, 307), but that He always was God -- which no Roman ever said of Caesar. |
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http://www.somareview.com/blogcomment.cfm?datekey=20050506
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| | Honor - Latria, Hyperdulia, Dulia & Simple Honor |
| | There are times when we find books that say we venerate sacred objects. | | | Our entering heaven depends on our treatment of God in our practice of the Catholic faith. | | | The honor given to God through latria or adoration is the highest honor that can be given. |
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http://www.truecatholic.org/pope/honor.htm
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| | CNP Articles - The True Cross (Part 2) |
| | Indeed, while it is of faith that this cult is useful, lawful, even pious and worthy of praise and of encouragement, and while we are not permitted to speak against it as something pernicious, still it is one of those devotional practices which the church can encourage, or restrain, or stop, according to circumstances. | | | To the image of Christ, then, we owe a worship of latria as well as to His Person. | | | No image of Christ, then, should be honoured with the worship of latria, and, moreover, the term "relative latria", invented by the Thomists, ought to be banished from theological language as equivocal and dangerous. |
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| | I'm Glad You Asked - Mary |
| | The Catholic Church even has special words for all this: latria is the worship offered and due to God alone, and dulia is the veneration given to the saints, including Mary [although hyperdulia (more than dulia, but far less than latria) is the term applied to the honor given to Mary]. | | | In fact, Catholic worship is reserved only for God. | | | The words "latria," "dulia" and "hyperdulia" can be confusing to the layperson however, even though they come from the New Testament Greek, because we don't commonly use them (and they can appear to be nothing but smoke-and-mirrors to the non-Catholic who has never heard of them before). |
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| | Latria |
| | We give absolute latria to God as the Blessed Trinity, or to one of the divine Persons, to Christ in His divine and human natures, to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, or to the Holy Eucharist. | | | We give relative latria in connection with images of God, not to the symbol but to God Himself. | | | There are three levels of veneration that we in this life offer. |
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http://www.secondexodus.com/html/catholicdefinitions/latria.htm
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| | YOits_shoRts's Xanga Site |
| | Nd chris nd ricky was tryin to teach pickz nd latria to do "spongbob" idonkno some lil dance thing but it was so fukin funni watchin latria nd pickz tryin to do it. | | | Last night i was chyllen with pickz, latria, ricky, nd chris. |
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| | FanFiction.Net : Dictionary & Thesaurus |
| | [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) : latria n : worship given to God alone [syn: adoration] | | | 2 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 : Latria \La*tri"a\ (l[.a]*tr[imac]"[.a]; 277), n. |
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| | Talk:Latria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | But as you can see I am not trying to keep out the Protestant dispute with the Mass nor the rejection of St. Thomas as an authoritative theologian. | | | That would be a refutation, and a very important point of view to establish. | | | There is no sense in which I am eager to suppress the Protestant theology. |
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| | RareBreed Network: Bergamasco Breeders: History of the Bergamasco in the USA |
| | After a year Latria decided that the boys were not so bad and allowed them near her. | | | Latria as sweet as she is, when she sees another dog, goes beserk and barks and carries on so. | | | You would think she was going after prey, but when she is able to approach, she does so gently and calmly. |
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| | History |
| | Bergamasco's seem to prefer peace and balance within their surroundings and Latria was no exception! | | | Latria then decided that they too were okay, and allowed the boys to touch her. | | | She stayed away from our 3 teenage boys for approximately 1 year, we didn't blame her due to their teenage differences. |
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| | Walter Berschin - 2. Greek Studies North of the Alps |
| | latria; when we say "service to men," they say | | | latria is called "service to God" in Latin; thence "idolatry" is the service to idols and | | | IX), which was widely known in southern Germany and survives in printed form only in an incunabula (Augsburg, St. Ulrich and Afra 1475): |
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| | Christian Worship |
| | What kind of church do young people want? | | | It’s the attitude behind the Latria that matters to God…. | | | IS HAVING THE RIGHT ATTITUDE ABOUT WORSHIP ALL THAT MATTERS ? |
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http://www.erskine.edu/seminary/glick/sm02_worship_power_points/chapter_1
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| | The Nickel Arcade » Dulia and Latria? What the…? |
| | Seriously, though, I think all “dulia&; and “latria” should be given to the Lord, my God. | | | A Catholic friend of mine had a bit of discussion started about “dulia&; and “latria” and that Protestants have no use for relics because they make no distinction between those words. | | | I’ll leave y’all with a quote from English Puritan Richard Baxter that I believe is a good model for Christians relating to each other on religious matters: “In necessary things, unity. |
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| | RareBreed Network: Bergamasco Breeders: History of the Bergamasco in the USA |
| | As this moment we live with 9 Bergamasco Sheepdogs and 1 Polish Lowland Sheepdog, no one is neutered or spayed, they play and live together under one roof, in our house. | | | We keep track of the oncoming heat cycle by recording the last time each female was in season, watching the behavior of the female and seeing the male interest escalate as the female comes closer to her prime breeding time, which is by far the most visible to see. | | | This occurs to our 6 year old Latria. |
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| | BaylyBlog: Out of Our Minds Too: A Mirror for Protestants.... |
| | It's not enough to make a non-biblical distinction (point 2, we both go the Bible for authority, right?) between dulia and latria to win this argument. | | | When your priests and people are bowing to a statue and praying to it, they're doing exactly what the Philistines did with their statues of Baal. | | | I can't count the times I've gotten into the distinction between dulia and latria, typed until my fingers bled, and still been told, 'But it's still worship!'" |
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