Homoousian

American  

[hoh-moh-oo-see-uhn, -ou-, hom-oh-] / ˌhoʊ moʊˈu si ən, -ˈaʊ-, ˌhɒm oʊ- /

noun

1. a member of a 4th-century a.d. church party that maintained that the essence or substance of the Father and the Son is the same (Heteroousian ).

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adjective

1. of or relating to the Homoousians or their doctrine.

Homoousian British  

/ ˌhəʊməʊˈuːsɪən, -ˈaʊ-, ˌhɒm- /

noun

1. a Christian who believes that the Son is of the same substance as the Father Compare Homoiousian

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adjective

1. of or relating to the Homoousians

Other Word Forms

• Homoousianism noun

Etymology

Origin of Homoousian

1555–65; < Late Greek homooúsi ( os ) of the same substance ( Greek hom ( o )- homo- + ousí ( a ) substance, essence + -os adj. suffix) + -an

Example Sentences

The emperors were the natural protectors of the Homoousian doctrine; and the faithful people of Africa, both as Romans and as Catholics, preferred their lawful sovereignty to the usurpation of the Barbarous heretics.

From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 by Milman, Henry Hart

The ignominious capitulation was rejected with disdain and abhorrence; and the Homoousian standard, which had been shaken but not overthrown, was more firmly replanted in all the churches of the West.

From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 by Milman, Henry Hart

The Novatians of Constantinople and the adjacent country, by their firm attachment to the Homoousian standard, deserved to be confounded with the Catholics themselves.

From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 by Milman, Henry Hart

Fifteen hundred years ago, in south-eastern Europe, men who held the Homoousian opinion of the Trinity were gathered in arms against the Homoiousians.

From Human Nature in Politics Third Edition by Wallas, Graham

His characteristic functions of Redeemer, Mediator, King, and final Judge, must all cease to be attributable to Christ; and the conclusion is, that between the Homoousian scheme and mere Psilanthropism there is no intelligible 'medium'.

From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson