Definitions
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- adjective theology Pertaining to the belief established in the fourth century as a middle ground between the
homoousian andhomoiousian positions, contending merely that the Father is ‘like’ the Son. - noun Someone who subscribes to this belief.
Etymologies
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This new phrase was the invention of Acacius of Cæsarea, who now deserted the extremer Arians and became leader of the new "Homoean" party.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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Athanasius, but made a stand against the so-called "Homoean" formulae of Ariminum.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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Homoean ideas were established at Constantinople; and, although their influence never lasted very long in the West, they enjoyed a fluctuating but disquieting supremacy in the East for nearly twenty years longer.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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In both councils, as the result of dishonest intrigue and an unscrupulous use of intimidation, the Homoean formula associated with the name of Acacius ultimately prevailed.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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Homoean party, and is content to declare that the Son is "in all things like the Father".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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It was, in effect, the offer of another compromise in lieu of the Homoean; though Hilary makes it perfectly clear what is, in his eyes, the only sense in which this simple and primitive confession can honestly be made, yet assuredly those whose doctrine most widely diverged would have felt able to make it.
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Germinius had been a leader of the Homoean party, and it is at least possible that his change of front was due to his knowledge that the Emperor, though he would not eject Homoeans, had no sympathy with them and would allow them no influence.
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Homoean and Semiarian, which alternately ejected one another from their sees, were very evenly balanced, and though Constantius was now on the side of the former, his friendship was not to be trusted.
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They abandoned their friends in order to induce Constantius to sacrifice his old Semiarian advisers; and proposed with success their new Homoean formula, that the Son is ` like the Father in all things, as Scripture says. '
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And, after all, the Homoean formula, ` like the Father, 'was itself unscriptural.
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