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Definition of Homoousian
1. n. One of those, in the 4th century, who accepted the Nicene creed, and maintained that the Son had the same essence or substance with the Father; -- opposed to homoiousian.
2. a. Of or pertaining to the Homoousians, or to the doctrines they held.
Definition of Homoousian
1. Adjective. Having the same essence or substance, especially with reference to the first and second persons of the Trinity ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Homoousian
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Homoousian
Literary usage of Homoousian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Egypt: From the Earliest Times Till the # by Samuel Sharpe (1885)
"(55) On the death of Athanasius, the homoousian party chose Peter as his ...
The persecution which the homoousian party throughout Upper Egypt then suffered ..."
2. The Ecclesiastical History of Socrates, Surnamed Scholasticus, Or the by Socrates, Henri de Valois, Edward Walford (1853)
"... THE ARIAN BISHOP EITHER TO ASSENT TO THE homoousian FAITH, OR LEAVE THE CITY.
GREGORY of Nazianzen, after his translation to Constantinople, ..."
3. The History of Egypt Under the Romans by Samuel Sharpe (1842)
"On the death of Athanasius, the homoousian party chose Peter as his successor in
... The persecution which the homoousian party throughout Upper Egypt then ..."
4. The History of Egypt: From the Earliest Times Till the Conquest by the Arabs by Samuel Sharpe (1885)
"(55) On the death of Athanasius, the homoousian party chose Peter as his successor
in the bishopric, overlooking Lucius, the Arian bishop, whose election ..."
5. A History of the Church in Seven Books: From the Accession of Constantine, A by Socrates, Socrates Scholasticus (1844)
"... CREED. the maintainers of the homoousian doctrine had been thus severely dealt
with, and put to flight, the persecutors began afresh to harass the ..."
6. History of the Christian Church to the Reformation by Johann Heinrich Kurtz (1860)
"The School of Lucian, the Antiochian (§ 61, 6; 74), especially furnished able
opponents to homoousian principles. Origen had held these two apparently ..."
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