|
Search over 100 encyclopedias and dictionaries: |
Research categories | Follow us on Twitter |
Research categories
View all topics in the newsView all reference sources at Encyclopedia.com |
|||
Homoousion
Homoousion (Gk., ‘of one substance’). The word in the Nicene Creed to express the relation in the one Godhead of the Father and Son. It was accepted as an anti-Arian formula at the Council of Nicaea at the urging of the emperor, although many bishops preferred the looser term homoiousion, ‘of like substance’. Thus its sense may have been broadly ‘of the same nature’, rather than ‘of the identical substance’ as later theology took it. Homoousion was used again at Chalcedon to express the relation of Christ to people; and it was extended to the Holy Spirit during the 4th cent.
|
|
|
Cite this article
JOHN BOWKER. "Homoousion." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. 30 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN BOWKER. "Homoousion." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. (May 30, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O101-Homoousion.html JOHN BOWKER. "Homoousion." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Retrieved May 30, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O101-Homoousion.html |
|
Homoousion
Homoousion (Gk., ‘of one substance’; rendered in Lat. consubstantialis). The term used in the Nicene Creed to express the relations of the Father and the Son within the Godhead and originally designed to exclude Arianism. Some theologians preferred the term ‘Homoiousion’ (‘of like substance’), which was held to leave more room for distinctions within the Godhead.
|
|
|
Cite this article
E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Homoousion." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. 30 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Homoousion." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. (May 30, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-Homoousion.html E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Homoousion." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Retrieved May 30, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-Homoousion.html |
|
Search over 100 encyclopedias and dictionaries:
HighBeam™ Research, Inc. © Copyright 2012. All rights reserved.
The Encyclopedia.com advertising network includes:
