monoousian en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˌmɑnoʊˈuzi.ən/ (General-American)
- /ˌmɒnəʊˈuːzɪən/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /-ʒən/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /-ʒən/ (General-American)
Etymology
From Ancient Greek μονοούσιος (monooúsios, “of one substance”), from μόνος (mónos, “alone, only, sole, single”) + οὐσία (ousía, “being, substance, essence”) + -ian.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Having one and the same nature or essence, especially with regard to the persons of the Trinity.
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); […]
1678, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe, volume I: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.
April 1867, The American Presbyterian and Theological Review, volume 5, number 18, page 339: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.
1884, Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church, volume III, T. & T. Clark, pages 676–677:
Relateds
heteroousian · homoousian · homoiousian
Synonyms
Translations (2)
el μονοούσιος (having one and the same nature or essence) · pl jednoistotny (having one and the same nature or essence)