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/kɒnsəbstˈænʃəl/
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ADJECTIVE
- regarded as the same in substance or essence (as of the three persons of the Trinity)
How To Use consubstantial In A Sentence
- The consubstantial kindreds known as totemic groups include both human and non-human kin.
- He referred not so much to architectural form as to dedication of three altars in one church as symbolising the three persons in the consubstantial unity of God.
- Basically, the tactics of appeal play with the idea of an identity of contexts, which induces an identity of the subjects themselves within the contexts and, indeed, renders them consubstantial.
- But the more fashionable saints of the Arian times, the intrepid Athanasius, the learned Gregory Nazianzen, and the other pillars of the church, who supported with ability and success the Nicene doctrine, appeared to consider the expression of substance as if it had been synonymous with that of nature; and they ventured to illustrate their meaning, by affirming that three men, as they belong to the same common species, are consubstantial, or homoousian to each other. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2
- Nonetheless, it remains that these domains are fundamentally consubstantial and coextensive.
- To utilize power in the corruption of life is to deem oneself a demigod, to remove oneself from the nurturing fluids of consubstantial human interaction.
- Presumably, this is because rhythm is an aspect of becoming, because it marks the in-between and connects heterogeneities, not because it is consubstantial with the homogeneous space-time of a territory.
- The Word was with God, that is, in the unique equality of the divine; for this Word that is with God is equal to him in divinity, since the Word that is in God is inseparable from God and consubstantial with him.
- The ultimate essence of the consubstantial trend to the modern communication design is the fulsome functionalism, rationalism.
- But Augustine was a Chalcedonian before Chalcedon, and there is no doubt that he is here quoting familiar Scripture and filling it with the interpretation achieved by the long struggle of the Church to affirm the coeternity and consubstantiality of Jesus Christ and God the Father. Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler