In the 4th century, when Christianity was caught up in heresies and still developing the creeds which would define its beliefs, was used both to support and refute the claims of the consubstantial.
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Apollinaris did make a lasting contribution to orthodox theology in declaring that Christ was consubstantial ( of one substance ) with the Father as regarding his divinity and consubstantial with us as regarding his humanity.
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Apollinaris did make a lasting contribution to orthodox theology in declaring that Christ was consubstantial ( of one substance ) with the Father as regarding his divinity and consubstantial with us as regarding his humanity.
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He ridicules " autopator " and " autogennetos ", he declares God to be unchangeable, and the Son to be created, not begotten from the Father's essence and consubstantial.
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Glory in the text is also found in the turbulence and uncertainty of the sea and in the danger of death that the sea may bring about : " They were consubstantial : glory and the capsized world.
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In identifying with the interests of another ( or being persuaded that shared interests exist, even if they do not ), one is substantially one with that other, or " consubstantial ."
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This notion, however, was also rejected at the Council of Nicaea, in favor of the Athanasian Creed, which holds the Father and Son to be distinct yet also coequal, coeternal, and consubstantial divine persons.
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The earlier part of his career was passed at pantheistic doctrine that all nature is consubstantial with the Divine essence that the whole universe has emanated from God, and will in the end return to and be absorbed in him.
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Against Arius who said that Jesus Christ was not eternal and not God but a mere creature, Athanasius formulated the doctrine that Jesus Christ is " consubstantial " with the Father, a doctrine now known as " homoousios ."
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At length, in the Council of Nicaea, the term " consubstantial " ( homoousion ) was suggested by Athanasius : it was immediately adopted, and a formulary of faith embodying it was drawn up by Hosius, Hosius of Cordoba.
