homoousios

• Nicene Creed, that Christ is "begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father", that God (the Creator and Father), the Son, (Jesus the Christ) and the Holy Spirit are one Essence or substance (in Greek, homoousios) and Three Persons (in Greek, hypostasis). —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
• To fair to the proponents of ESS, they are not Arians in one important respect: they believe in the Son's eternal generation (the aspect or Origen's thought appropriated in the Creed of the Council of Nicaea, "eternally begotten of the Father"), but they also believe in his eternal subordination (the aspect of Origen's thought not appropriated by the Nicene defenders of homoousios). —  Grace and Truth to You
• This creed is an approximation to the Nicene creed but without the use of the word of especial importance, homoousios. —  A Source Book for Ancient Church History
• Poitiers (_c_) who contended that what the West meant by homoousios the —  A Source Book for Ancient Church History
• The word homoousios greatly helped me already believing this. —  A Source Book for Ancient Church History

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