Definition of Heteroousian. Meaning of Heteroousian. Synonyms of Heteroousian

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Definition of Heteroousian

Heteroousian
Heteroousian Het`er*o*ou`si*an, a. [Hetero- + Gr. ? being, essence.] Having different essential qualities; of a different nature.
Heteroousian
Heteroousian Het`er*o*ou"si*an, n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of those Arians who held that the Son was of a different substance from the Father.

Meaning of Heteroousian from wikipedia

- In 4th-century Christianity, the Anomoeans /ˌænəˈmiːənz/, and known also as Heterousians /ˌhɛtərəˈjuːʒənz/, Aetians /eɪˈiːʃənz/, or Eunomians /juːˈnoʊmiənz/...
- namely that the Son was of "a dissimilar substance" from the Father. The Heteroousians ("dissimilar substance") won the victory over the other two views in...
- doctrine of Athanasius and Eustathius (which became Trinitarianism) and the heteroousian doctrine of Arius and Eusebius of Nicomedia (Arianism). The homoousian...
- identical substance Homoiousian = Similar in substance Neo-Arianism or heteroousians = Unlike in substance Homoianism refuses to refer to substance. The...
- Θεόφιλος) (died 364), also called "the Ethiopian", was an Aetian or Heteroousian bishop who fell alternately in and out of favor with the court of the...
- sense but that even to speak of ousia was impertinent speculation. Heteroousianism (including Anomoeanism), which held that God the Father and the Son...
- from the Father, a position known as anomoeanism or heteroousia. The Heteroousians defeated the Homoiousians in an initial debate, but Constantius banished...