Veneration vs Proskynesis - What's the difference?
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The act of venerating or the state of being venerated.
(senseid)Profound reverence, respect or awe.
* 1848 , ,
Religious zeal, idolatry or devotion.
(historical) The act of bowing down before a lord or ruler, especially in ancient Persia.
*1993 , AB Bosworth, Conquest and Empire , p. 285:
*:The participants in turn drank a toast, performed proskynesis and received a kiss from the king.
*1994 , DM Lewis & John Boardman, The Cambridge Ancient History , vol. IV, p. 873:
*:Alexander, it seems, did attempt to impose proskynesis on both Greeks and Macedonians, and he aroused determined opposition, represented and articulated by Callisthenes of Olynthus.
*2008 , Eirene , vol 44, p. 195:
*:Perhaps most notably, in 66 CE, Nero accepted a formal proskynesis from the Armenian prince Tiridates, who paid a visit to him in Rome to be crowned king of Armenia.
(Eastern Orthodoxy) The level of veneration properly given to God's creations rather than to God himself.
*1975 , Karl Rahner, Encyclopedia of Theology , p. 684:
*:The Carolingian theologians rejected adoration of images but paid too little attention to the fine distinction between latria'', the adoration due to God alone, and ''proskynesis , the reverence paid to the image.
*2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 448:
*:It was proskyn?sis which the worshipper at home or in church offered to an icon.
As nouns the difference between veneration and proskynesis
is that veneration is veneration while proskynesis is (historical) the act of bowing down before a lord or ruler, especially in ancient persia.veneration
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(en noun)Vanity Fair, Bradbury and Evans, page 2:
- In Miss Jemima's eyes an autograph letter of her sister, Miss Pinkerton, was an object of as deep veneration as would have been a letter from a sovereign.