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Did not the Synod of Antioch in 269 condemn the use of the term homoousios to speak of the Son?
Ratzinger, Scripture and the development of doctrine Mike L 2007
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Did not the Synod of Antioch in 269 condemn the use of the term homoousios to speak of the Son?
Archive 2007-11-01 Mike L 2007
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It must be regarded as certain that the council which condemned Paul rejected the term homoousios; but naturally only in a false sense used by Paul; not, it seems because he meant by it an unity of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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The Eastern theologians, who hesitated to accept the Nicene term, were eventually induced to accept, understanding by the term homoousios the same as homoiousios.
A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905
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Yet as we ourselves have discovered from various letters which the bishops wrote to one another after the synod, the term homoousios troubled some of them.
A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905
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These were the Homoiousians, who objected to the term homoousios as savoring of Sabellianism, and yet admitted the essential point implied by it.
A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905
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It states the Arian case, explains the necessity of the term homoousios, gives a list of the texts on which the Arians relied, and sets out at length one of their statements of doctrine, the Epistle of Arius to Alexander, which it proceeds to demolish, in the remainder of the fourth book and in the fifth, by arguments from particular passages and from the general sense of the Old Testament.
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It is important to observe that the use of the word homoousios did not “clarify” anything about God.
What does 'development of doctrine' mean? Mike L 2006
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It is important to observe that the use of the word homoousios did not “clarify” anything about God.
Archive 2006-12-01 Mike L 2006
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It is important to observe that the use of the word homoousios did not “clarify” anything about God.
Archive 2006-12-01 Mike L 2006
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