homoousian

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Having the same essence or substance, especially with reference to the first and second persons of the Trinity (Father and Son).
2. isim 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.

   “The Greek word, which was chosen to express this mysterious resemblance, bears so close an affinity to the orthodox symbol, that the profane of every age have derided the furious contests which the difference of a single diphthong excited between the Homoousians and the Homoiousians.”