Saint worship

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Often appears with: worship vs service · sacrilege · prayer and worship · latria and dulia · heresy, orthodoxy, and schism · equity, mercy, and pardon

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“Therefore Zechariah, when speaking of the restoration of the Church, expressly declares, not only that “there shall be one Lord,” but also “that his name shall be one;” Jean Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) · insight

Institutes of the Christian Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) primary

Jean Calvin · 1541 (initial publication of the Institutes; this record is for a later 1559/French-collated edition, but the work’s composition spans Calvin’s revisions after earlier versions)
Book I. On The Knowledge Of God The Creator. > Chapter XII. God Contradistinguished From Idols, That He May Be Solely And (3/3)

Calvin rejects the latria/dulia distinction used to justify saint worship, arguing that worship and service of God cannot be parceled out to creatures without sacrilege, and cites biblical warnings against giving worship to others.

extinguished, except that we retain some faint notion of his supreme power; but, at the same time, deceived with such impostures, we are seduced to the worship of various deities. II. On this account was invented the distinction of *latria* and *dulia*, as they express themselves, by which they conceived they might safely ascribe divine honours to angels and deceased men. For it is evident, that the worship which pa…