Definitions

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  • adjective Having the same essence or substance, especially with reference to the first and second persons of the Trinity

Etymologies

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From Ecclesiastical Latin homousianus, from Greek ὁμοούσιος, from ὁμο ‘same’ + ουσία ‘essence’.

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Examples

  • For so the holy and homoousian Trinity, the Creator and

    A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905

  • Accordingly, he had recourse to the following measures: he knew that Constantius was hated by all the people who held the homoousian faith and had driven them from the churches and had proscribed and exiled their bishops.

    A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905

  • He does not flippantly ridicule the homoousian and the homoiousian as mere words, but the expression and exponent of profound theological distinctions, as every theologian knows them to be.

    Beacon Lights of History John Lord 1852

  • One of the chants of the production's liturgy is that two things are certain: that we will die; and that we must transgress the limits of our existence, break and smash taboos, in the urge to transform suffering into pleasure; body and soul, pain and pleasure homoousian.

    Superfluities Redux 2009

  • Thus, the Son is essentially different from the Father, which entails a denial of homoousian.

    PhilGons.com 2008

  • Must you not deny homoousian on the basis of your own premises?

    PhilGons.com 2008

  • Neither he nor Tom shows how their position-on their own premises-can account for any necessary differences without denying homoousian, because, they argue, all necessary differences are essential differences.

    PhilGons.com 2008

  • Athanasius, the learned Gregory Nazianzen, and the other pillars of the church, who supported with ability and success the Nicene doctrine, appeared to consider the expression of substance as if it had been synonymous with that of nature; and they ventured to illustrate their meaning, by affirming that three men, as they belong to the same common species, are consubstantial, or homoousian to each other.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • But the more fashionable saints of the Arian times, the intrepid Athanasius, the learned Gregory Nazianzen, and the other pillars of the church, who supported with ability and success the Nicene doctrine, appeared to consider the expression of substance as if it had been synonymous with that of nature; and they ventured to illustrate their meaning, by affirming that three men, as they belong to the same common species, are consubstantial, or homoousian to each other.

    History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Edward Gibbon 1765

  • But the more fashionable saints of the Arian times, the intrepid Athanasius, the learned Gregory Nazianzen, and the other pillars of the church, who supported with ability and success the Nicene doctrine, appeared to consider the expression of substance as if it had been synonymous with that of nature; and they ventured to illustrate their meaning, by affirming that three men, as they belong to the same common species, are consubstantial, or homoousian to each other.

    History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Edward Gibbon 1765

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