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Ousia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ousia () is the Ancient Greek noun formed on the feminine present participle of ( to be ); it is analogous to the English participle being , and the Greek ontic. Ousia is often translated (some...
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Homoousian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Homoousian ( Greek: , from the Greek: , homós , "same" and , ousía , "essence, being") is a technical theological term used in discussion of the Christian understanding of God as Trinity. The N...
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on homoousios (Christian theology), in Christianity, the key term of the Christological doctrine formulated at the first ecumenical council, at Nicaea in 325, to affirm that God the Son and God the Father are of the same substance. ... The use of homoousios (Greek: “of one substance...
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A simplified explanation of homoousios, which means one substance and was put in the Nicene Creed twice.
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Glossary of Religion and Philosophy - homoiousios vs. homoousios ... According to those who adopted homoiousios, Jesus was not the same as God but simply had a "similar essence." According to those who argued for homoousios, the doctrine which was eventually adopted as orthodoxy, Jesus and God had the exact same essence.
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In fact, in his “History of Christianity,” Edward Gibbon pointed out, ... In Alexandria around the year 319, the previously obscure presbyter Arius attempted to rationalize the mystery that Chrisitians find in the relationship between Jesus and God. He attracted a large ... Opponents, led most promenently by Athanasius,
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This article will attempt to evaluate those non-reductive alternatives in light of the homoousios[4] doctrine of the orthodox Christian faith.
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