Terms vs Monoousian - What's the difference?
terms | monoousian |
(theology) Having one and the same nature or essence, especially with regard to the persons of the Trinity.
* 1678 , Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe , Volume I, Gould & Newman (1837),
* 1867 , The American Presbyterian and Theological Review , Volume 5, Number 18, April 1867,
* 1884 , Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church , Volume III, T. & T. Clark (1884),
As a noun terms
is .As an adjective monoousian is
(theology) having one and the same nature or essence, especially with regard to the persons of the trinity.monoousian
English
Adjective
(-)pages 803-804:
- 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);
page 339:
- 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.
pages 676-677:
- 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.
