consubstantiality

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  1. The quality of being consubstantial; existence in the same substance; participation in the same nature: as, the coeternity and consubstantiality of the Son with the Father. Can the answerer himself unriddle the secrete of the Incarnation, fathom the undivided Trinity, or the consubstantiality of the Eternal Son, with all his readings and examinations? Dryden, Duchess of York's Paper Defended.

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  • Unfortunately, Anderson doesn't go on to answer these questions; he merely asserts and then moves on to stating that Athanasius affirmed the consubstantiality of the Father and Son while repudiating Sabellianism and affirming a real distinction in the persons. —  Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth
  • For to the Son of God Himself, who is said to have been conceived, He has a habitude of consubstantiality: while to His body He has the habitude of efficient cause. —  Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
  • And if the highest outpouring proceeds from the highest essential good, it follows that there must be in this Trinity the highest and most intimate consubstantiality or community of being, and complete equality and identity of essence, which the Persons enjoy in sweetest communion, and also that the Substance and power of the three almighty Persons is undivided and unpartitioned Here the maiden exclaimed: Marvellous! —  Light, Life, and Love : selections from the German mystics of the middle ages
  • He had been reading a book that affirmed the consubstantiality of the sleep-dream and the hypnotic illusion. —  The Landlord at Lion's Head — Volume 2
  • Entweder_ transubstantiality ODER consubstantiality but in no case subsubstantiality. —  Ulysses
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  1. = French consubstantialité = Spanish consustancialidad = Portuguese consubstancialidade = Italian consustanzialità, from Late Latin consubstantialita(t-)s, from consubstantialis, consubstantial: see consubstantial.
 

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