Homoousios
“"of one essence"”
idea · 1 work · 5 mentions · 8 anchored passages
homoousios · of one essence · consubstantial · consubstantiality · of one substance · of the same nature · the consubstantial
spoken of as
2 expressionsConsubstantial doctrine“homoousios”1 mention
Letters (Greek)
And yet you ought to have known that, by the grace of God, you are not alone even in the East, but have many of your own portion, who defend the orthodoxy of the fathers, who at Nicaea set forth the pious doctrine of the faith;
the Consubstantial“homoousios”1 mention
Letters (Greek)
But confessing identity of nature, we accept the consubstantial and flee the composite, since God and Father, who is God by His essence, has begotten the Son, who is God by His essence;
in the texts
Letters
The Nicene doctrinal term declaring the Son 'of one essence' with the Father, debated and defended throughout the window.
And then, concerning the term "of one essence" itself — for the sake of which I believe they are contriving all this, deeply slandering the word "essence," so as to leave no place for "of one essence" — be willing to set out for us more fully what meaning it has, and how it could soundly be used, in cases where no common genus is contemplated lying above, nor any material substratum existing befor …
Here was the malicious abolition of "of one essence," as though it ought not to be understood in any Greek sense of denial;
"One essence" is spoken of not only in respect of number, as you say, and of that which is within one bounding, but also, in a proper sense, of two men, and of anything else among things unified according to genus.