homoousios

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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.”

  NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus

• “It is important to observe that the use of the word homoousios did not “clarify” anything about God.”

  Archive 2006-12-01

• “Greek term homoousios (“of like substance”) was used to define his relationship to the Father in a manner such as was thought to describe his essential and un - qualified divinity, while preserving his distinction as the Son.”

  Dictionary of the History of Ideas

• “This is the meaning of the word homoousios applied to the Three Persons, and if Harnack were right in supposing that at the Council of Constantinople in 384 the word was taken to imply only three Persons of one species, then that Council accepted three Gods, and not three distinct but inseparable Persons in one”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman

• “They separated themselves from the orthodox by the rejection of the word homoousios; from the Semi-Arians by their surrender of the homoiousios; and from the Aetians by their insistence upon the term homoios.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize

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