monoousian

Definitions

Having one and the same nature or essence, especially with regard to the persons of the Trinity.

not-comparable

Equivalents

Examples

“But the homoousian Trinity of the orthodox went exactly in the middle, betwixt that monoousian trinity of Sabellius, which was a trinity of different notions or conceptions only of one and the self-same thing, and that other heteroousian trinity of Arius, which was a trinity of separate⟳ and heterogenous substances (one of which only was God, and the other creatures); […]”

“The use⟳ of the word "monoousian," as above, may mislead; for the orthodox view⟳ of the trinity has unquestionably and necessarily a monoousian basis; there is, and can be, but one essence in the godhead.”

“The trinitarian idea of personality lies midway between that of a mere form⟳ of manifestation, or a personation, which would lead⟳ to Sabellianism, and the idea of an independent, limited human personality, which would result⟳ in tritheism. In other words, it avoids the monoousian or unitarian trinity of a threefold conception and aspect of one and the same being, and the triousian or tritheistic trinity of three distinct and separate⟳ beings.”

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