Tag Archives: homoousios

Thinking Trinity: No God Behind the Back of Jesus

Posted on 1 August 2019 by

What if the Nicene assertion of Christ’s Jesus’ consubstantial unity with the Father is not true? In the previous article I focused on the story of the paralytic and Christ’s word of forgiveness and argued that if Christ is not … Continue reading →

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Thinking Trinity: So what if Jesus ain’t homoousios with the Father

Posted on 25 July 2019 by

What would happen to the gospel if the Nicene confession of the consubstantiality of the Father and the Son were not true? Would there be a gospel? Consider the story of Jesus and the paralytic: And when he returned to Caper′na-um … Continue reading →

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Thinking Trinity: The Secret of the Homoousion

Posted on 23 July 2019 by

We believe in one God the Father all powerful, maker of all things both seen and unseen. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the only-begotten begotten from the Father, that is from the substance of the … Continue reading →

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May an infallible dogma lose its infallibility?

Posted on 10 February 2019 by

Surely the question posed in the title is absurd. How can a dogmatic statement deemed essential to the integrity of the Christian faith—that both guarantees and is guaranteed by the religion—ever be apprehended by Christians as dispensable, perhaps even meaningless? … Continue reading →

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Thinking Trinity: Homoousion as Dogma

Posted on 28 February 2014 by

And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds; God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God; begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by … Continue reading →

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Thinking Trinity: The Radical Homoousion

Posted on 26 February 2014 by

When in A.D. 325 the bishops of the Council of Nicaea declared that Jesus Christ is begotten “from the substance of the Father” and “of one substance” with him, they probably did not foresee the momentous dogmatic consequences of their … Continue reading →

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Nicaea: Pushing the Biblical Understanding of Divinity

Posted on 11 January 2014 by

I came across a blog article on the doctrine of the Holy Trinity with which I strongly disagree: “The Heart of Trinitarian Conflicts.” The author identifies two conflicting impulses at the heart of the fourth century trinitarian conflict—“faithfulness to the … Continue reading →

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St Basil the Great: Homily on Faith

Posted on 2 January 2014 by

Scholars are unable to date St Basil of Caesarea’s homily On Faith (De fide) with much accuracy. It appears to have been composed sometime between 365 and 375, with 372-375 being the most likely years, given the attention given to … Continue reading →

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