hyperdouleia
hyperdouleia is the alternative form of hyperdulia.
Meaning of hyperdulia
Noun
hyperdulia (usually uncountable, plural hyperdulias)
- A level of veneration higher than dulia but less than latria, properly given to the Virgin Mary only.
- 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...2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 451
- Synonyms:
- hyperveneration
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- Hyperdouleia is the alternative form of hyperdulia.
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