Tag Archives: Nicene Creed

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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Divine Mercy as ‘Immanent Transcendence’ According to Nicaean Metaphysics

Posted on 9 November 2016 by

by Robert F. Fortuin This topic is very exciting to me for several reasons. On a very personal and existential level, it is my firm conviction that God’s mercy is precisely the very reason for, and assurance of, our presence … Continue reading →

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Thinking Trinity: No God Behind the Back of Jesus

Posted on 6 March 2014 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: The Jigsaw Puzzle of the Homoousion

Posted on 3 March 2014 by

Once a believer has fully grasped the decisive significance of homoousion, there can be no returning to a more “biblical” or more “historical” Jesus; for the only Jesus that was and is is the incarnate Son eternally begotten from the … 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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