Lexicographical Neighbors of Homoiousians
Literary usage of Homoiousians
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"... and the homoiousians. As it frequently happens that the sounds and characters
which approach the nearest to each other accidentally represent the most ..."
2. History of Dogma by Adolf von Harnack (1898)
"But in the following year it was recklessly used as a weapon against the
homoiousians.1 They had to vacate all positions of influence, and by way of making ..."
3. A History of the Church from the Earliest Ages to the Reformation by George Waddington (1835)
"... those who asserted the similarity of the substances by the name of homoiousians ;
those who denied any sort of resemblance were called ..."
4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"But the case was different with the homoiousians and with the so-called " young
Ni- cene " party, brought up in Origenistic traditions. ..."
5. The Last Athenian by Viktor Rydberg (1883)
"He had lost some brothers-in-the-faith, in the persecution which the homoiousians
had instituted, at the time of Julian's accession. ..."
6. History of the Christian Church by Wilhelm Ernst Möller (1902)
"Already in late years the homoiousians (semi- Arians) had the feeling, that in
spite of their antipathy to the expression ..."
7. Lives of the Fathers: Sketches of Church History in Biography by Frederick William Farrar (1889)
"With these explanations he maintains that the homoiousians merely wished to ...
So far then, the Eastern homoiousians and the Western defenders of the ..."
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