ousia

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Might it not indicated that God is a hypostasis which is not an ousia, as Plotinus says of the One?

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  • Might it not indicated that God is a hypostasis which is not an ousia, as Plotinus says of the One? —  Joseph S. O'Leary homepage
  • Theaetetus 185c-186b, ousia is separate from estin; 202c-e, the "likely myth" of correct opinion plus logos; and —  American Thinker
  • Gunton argues that, for the Cappadocians, communion and relationship constitute the divine ousia (7). —  Der Evangelische Theologe
  • Thus, while the ousia is not constituted by the divine relationships, we might say that it is defined by those relationships. —  Der Evangelische Theologe
  • Not that Origen has not yet the later terminology [Greek: ousia, hypostasis, hypokeimenon, prosôpon]. —  History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7)
 

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