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- Ecclesiastical Latin homoeusius, from Greek ὁμοιουσιος, from ὁμοιος ‘like, similar’ + ουσια ‘essence’. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Basil's conciliation of the 'homoiousian' clergy is one of the clearly evidenced themes of his ministry.”
“There arose, on the one hand, an extreme Arian party and, on the other, a homoiousian party which approximated closely to the Athanasian position but feared the Nicene terminology.”
“What is novel in it is that it represents the fading of pure polytheism and the engrafting, upon a polytheistic stock, of a speculative homoiousian tendency soon to bud out as philosophic pantheism.”
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow
“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.”
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