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Homoousios in a sentence

Using Homoousios

  • In the example corpus, homoousios often appears in combinations such as: term homoousios, homoousios while.

Context around Homoousios

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 31.3 words
  • Position in the sentence: 0 start, 6 middle, 1 end
  • Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

term 3× debate 1× nicene 1× adjective 1×

Often after:

having 1×

Sentence patterns with Homoousios

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

and the homoousios and the 1× of debate homoousios was recognised 1× the adjective homoousios while others 1× the nicene homoousios while they 1× the term homoousios had been 1× the term homoousios having been 1× the term homoousios ὁμοούσιος of 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

at that council 1× both the man 1× in 269 the 1× the first group 1× these contacts and 1× this is considered 1×

Common sentence endings:

dispute resumed again 1× eastern semi arians 1× he used it 1× into the open 1× no better alternative 1× of the trinity 1×

Words around Homoousios

Just before it in the word index:

homoousion 2 homoousian 2 homonyms 9 homonymous 8 homonym 4 homonuclear 5

Just after it in the word index:

homophile 12 homophobe 8 homophobes 13 homophobia 151 homophobic 273 homophone 8

Similar in corpus frequency:

aad 10 aadhar 10 aaro 10 abels 10 abidin 10 abidine 10

Corpus analysis for Homoousios

  • In this selection, "homoousios" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 31.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, term, debate, nicene and having stand out and add context to how "homoousios" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include and the homoousios and the and of debate homoousios was recognised. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "homoousios" sits close to words such as aad, aadhar and aaro, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with homoousios

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

At that council he voted for acceptance of the term homoousios, having been finally convinced that there was no better alternative. (21 words)

After more than fifty years of debate, homoousios was recognised as the hallmark of orthodoxy, and was further developed into the formula of "three persons, one being". (27 words)

These contacts and the common plight subsequently led to a rapprochement between the Western supporters of the Nicene creed and the homoousios and the Eastern semi-Arians. (27 words)

Longer example sentences

This is considered unfair by Kelly who states that some members of the group were virtually orthodox from the start but disliked the adjective homoousios while others had moved in that direction after the out-and-out Arians had come into the open. (43 words)

The first group mainly opposed the Nicene terminology and preferred the term homoiousios (alike in substance) to the Nicene homoousios, while they rejected Arius and his teaching and accepted the equality and coeternality of the persons of the Trinity. (39 words)

Both the man and his teaching, including the term homoousios, had been condemned by the Synods of Antioch in 269. Hence, after Constantine's death in 337, open dispute resumed again. (31 words)

Example sentences (7)

After more than fifty years of debate, homoousios was recognised as the hallmark of orthodoxy, and was further developed into the formula of "three persons, one being".

At that council he voted for acceptance of the term homoousios, having been finally convinced that there was no better alternative.

Both the man and his teaching, including the term homoousios, had been condemned by the Synods of Antioch in 269. Hence, after Constantine's death in 337, open dispute resumed again.

In 269, the Synods of Antioch condemned Paul of Samosata for his Adoptionist theology, and also condemned the term homoousios (ὁμοούσιος, "of the same being") in the sense he used it.

The first group mainly opposed the Nicene terminology and preferred the term homoiousios (alike in substance) to the Nicene homoousios, while they rejected Arius and his teaching and accepted the equality and coeternality of the persons of the Trinity.

These contacts and the common plight subsequently led to a rapprochement between the Western supporters of the Nicene creed and the homoousios and the Eastern semi-Arians.

This is considered unfair by Kelly who states that some members of the group were virtually orthodox from the start but disliked the adjective homoousios while others had moved in that direction after the out-and-out Arians had come into the open.

Common combinations with homoousios

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

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