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Homoousion, n. and a. Theol.|hɒməʊˈaʊzɪɒn, -ˈaʊsɪɒn, -ˈuː-|
[eccl. Gr. ὁµοούσιον, neut. of ὁµοούσιος: see homoousian a. and n.]
A. n. the Homoousion (τὸ ὁµοούσιον): the term ὁµοούσιος as used, e.g. in the formula promulgated by the Council of Nicæa in a.d. 325, to express the doctrine that the Son is ‘of one substance’ with the Father (τῷ πατρί); the doctrine itself: opposed to the term ὁµοιούσιος (see Homoiousion). The masc. form Homoousios is also used.
[1683: see Homoiousion.] 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. 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. Ibid. 252 The mysterious Homoousion, which either party was free to interpret according to their peculiar tenets. 1833J. H. Newman Arians iv. 333 The Novatians, as maintaining the Homoousion, were included in the persecution. 1875Encycl. 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. 1921C. H. Turner Catholic & Apostolic (1931) 129 The very existence of Christianity in any full sense of the term was at stake over the Homoousion. 1969C. D. Darlington Evol. Man & Society xiv. 311 Why not agree, he asked, to the homoousion or consubstantiality of the Father and Son? 1971Cath. 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. (Usu. in form homoousios.) Of the same essence or substance: = homoousian a. a.
1834Penny 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. 1936G. 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. Ibid. 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. 1969A. Richardson Dict. Chr. Theol. 347/2 The Lord and Lifegiver could not be Homoousios with those to whom he gives life. |