Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Christian supporting the Council of Nicaea's Trinitarian doctrine that Jesus, as Son of God, is consubstantial with God the Father.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the same nature.
- [capitalized] Pertaining to the Homoöusians or their doctrines.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Eccl. Hist.) One of those, in the 4th century, who accepted the Nicene creed, and maintained that the Son had the same essence or substance with the Father; -- opposed to
homoiousian . - adjective Of or pertaining to the Homoousians, or to the doctrines they held.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But these Fathers would not accept the Homoousian formula, dreading lest it be taken to signify one material or abstract substance, according to the usage of the heathen philosophies.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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Arian and Athanasian chiefly, -- to damn to eternal perdition (and temporal excommunication when possible) the vile heretics of the other: Homoiousian to thunder against Homoousian, Homoousian against Homoiousian: _Arius contra Athanasium, _ and _Athanasius contra mundum: _ -- till the air of the whole Roman world is thick with the fumes of brimstone and the stench of the Nether Pit.
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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Only the Egyptians, with the exception of George, the intruder into the See of Athanasius, were avowedly Homoousian.
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'This' a Homoousian may have said 'is a practical matter.
Human Nature in Politics Third Edition Graham Wallas 1895
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Fifteen hundred years ago, in south-eastern Europe, men who held the Homoousian opinion of the Trinity were gathered in arms against the Homoiousians.
Human Nature in Politics Third Edition Graham Wallas 1895
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The rival doctrines of the Homoousian and of the Homoiousian, containing metaphysical differences so attenuated that they could hardly be stated, turned bishop against bishop and congregation against congregation.
The Last Galley Impressions and Tales Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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Caesarea, which by changes and the insertion of Homoousian phrases (such as _ek tes ousias tou patrous; gennetheis, ou poietheis; homoousios to patri_) was amended into an unequivocal clean-cut, anti-Arian confession.
Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894
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The rival doctrines of the Homoousian and of the Homoiousian, containing metaphysical differences so attenuated that they could hardly be stated, turned bishop against bishop and congregation against congregation.
The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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His characteristic functions of Redeemer, Mediator, King, and final Judge, must all cease to be attributable to Christ; and the conclusion is, that between the Homoousian scheme and mere
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820
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Homoousian party; and the misfortune of fourscore ecclesiastics of
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Edward Gibbon 1765
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