Homoousionn.adj.
/hɒməʊˈaʊsɪɒn//hɒməʊˈaʊzɪɒn//hɒməʊˈuːsɪɒn//hɒməʊˈuːzɪɒn/ Theology.
A. n.
the Homoousion (τὸ ὁμοούσιον): the term ὁμοούσιος as used, e.g. in the formula promulgated by the Council of Nicaea in a.d. 325, to express the doctrine that the Son is ‘of one substance’ with the Father (τῳ̑ πατρί); the doctrine itself: opposed to the term ὁμοιούσιος (see Homoiousion n.).The masculine form Homoousios is also used.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > doctrine > doctrine concerning the Trinity > [noun] > homoousianism
the Homoousion1781
homoousianism1869
1683 W. Cave Ecclesiastici 164 They rejected both the ὁμοούσιον and the ὁμοίουσιον [sic], as Expressions unknown to Scripture.]
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xxi. 251 Their [sc. the Arians'] patron, Eusebius of Nicomedia,..confessed, that the admission of the Homoousion, or Consubstantial..was incompatible with the principles of their theological system.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xxi. 252 The mysterious Homoousion, which either party was free to interpret according to their peculiar tenets.
1833 J. H. Newman Arians 4th Cent. iv. 333 The Novatians, as maintaining the Homoousion, were included in the persecution.
1875 Encycl. Brit. II. 538/2 At length the tenet of the Homoiousion was substituted for that of the Homoousion at the Council of Rimini (Ariminum) in 360.
1921 C. H. Turner Catholic & Apostolic (1931) 129 The very existence of Christianity in any full sense of the term was at stake over the Homoousion.
1969 C. D. Darlington Evol. Man & Society xiv. 311 Why not agree, he asked, to the homoousion or consubstantiality of the Father and Son?
1971 Catholic Dict. Theol. III. 39/2 What Nicaea had done with the homoousios to overcome Arianism, Trent was to do with transubstantiation to overcome other heresies.
B. adj.
(Usually in form homoousios.) Of the same essence or substance: = homoousian adj. a.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > [adjective] > the same in substance or essence
coessential1471
consubstantial1576
homoousian1678
homoousious1678
tautoousian1678
homoousiala1834
Homoousion1834
the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > the Trinity > [adjective] > of substance of > of identical substance
consubstantial1483
coessential1587
homoousian1678
monoousian1678
monoousious1678
tautoousian1678
tautoousious1678
homoousial1695
Homoousion1834
consubstantive1855
1834 Penny Cycl. II. 317/1 In the western part of the Roman empire, all adversaries of the doctrine of Athanasius, that the Son was homoousios, or of the same essence with the Father, were called Arians; although some of these opponents taught..that the Son was homoiousios, or of similar essence.
1936 G. L. Prestige God in Patristic Thought x. 197 According to the Valentinians..the abortive and degenerate fruit of the final aeon in the divine Absolute (pleroma), was homoousios with angelic (‘spiritual’) beings.
1936 G. L. Prestige God in Patristic Thought x. 198 A piece of marble closely resembling Mr. Gladstone..is made of different stuff from that of which Mr. Gladstone himself consisted: it is in the image of Mr. Gladstone, but not homoousios with him.
1969 A. Richardson Dict. Christian Theol. 347/2 The Lord and Lifegiver could not be Homoousios with those to whom he gives life.
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