consubstantiality in a sentence
Examples
- Moreover, consubstantiality implies that sinister morality can spread through both substances, as when the morality associated with a so-called autonomous activity serves as the morality for the larger context with which it is identified : One s morality as a specialist cannot be allowed to do duty for one s morality as a citizen.
- The Nicene Creed's central term, used to describe the relationship between the Father and the Son, is Homoousios ( ), or Consubstantiality, meaning " of the same substance " or " of one being " . ( The Athanasian Creed is less often used but is a more overtly anti-Arian statement on the Trinity .)
- All agree that the First Council of Nicaea included in its Creed the major term " homoousios " ( of the same essence ), which was used also by the Council of Chalcedon to speak of a double consubstantiality of Christ, " consubstantial with the Father as touching his Godhead, and consubstantial with us as touching his manhood ".
- The second section of the work advances dogmatic theses on ( 1 ) the consubstantiality of the Son with the Father, ( 2 ) the divinity of the Holy Spirit, ( 3 ) the distinction of the divine persons by relations of origin, and ( 4 ) the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son ( the Filioque ).
- The greatest danger of the Nicene Creed, these bishops believed, was Sabellianism, " the denial of a distinction between the three within the Godhead . " The Nicene Creed was thought to make this mistake and to leave the door open to Sabellianism by asserting consubstantiality and denying separate beings ( hypostases ) to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; the Dedication Creed was intended to shut that door.
- Gaston Bonet-Maury ( 1842 1919 ) comments : " Vald�s never discusses the Trinity ( even when commenting on Matt, xxviii . 19 ), reserving it ( in his " Latte Spirituale " ) as a topic for advanced Christians; yet he explicitly affirms the consubstantiality of the Son, whom he unites in doxologies with the Father and the Holy Spirit " ( Opusc . p . 145 ).
- All of these positions and the almost innumerable variations on them which developed in the 4th century were strongly and tenaciously opposed by Athanasius and other pro-Nicenes, who insisted on the doctrine of homoousion or consubstantiality, eventually prevailing in the struggle to define the dogma of the still-united Theodosius had published an edict, prior to the Council of Constantinople, declaring that the Nicene Creed was the legitimate doctrine and that those opposed to it were heretics.
- Adoptionism clearly conflicted with the claim, as in the " Gospel of John " ( see Alogi for those who rejected the Gospel of John ), that Jesus is the eternal orthodox doctrine of the consubstantiality of the Father and the Son ( the co-eminence of the Holy Spirit, and thus the Trinity, did not come about until the Fourth Ecumenical [ Council of Chalcedon ] in AD 451 ) and identified Jesus as eternally begotten.