modalist

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• If so, then he seems to be suggesting that some modalists are using the Homoiousian catchphrase, "like according to ousia," to describe their own belief that the Son is identical to the Father.

  Academic text (2007)

• It is an interesting fact that while Moltmann charges both Rahner and Barth with modalism, they explicitly reject the modalist idea that the Father suffers.

  Academic text (1990)

• However, it is doubtful that any modalist actually talked this way.

  Academic text (2007)

• While this is not to deny that some modalist tendencies might be found in their thinking, that subject cannot be treated here.

  Academic text (1990)

• Bushnell would insist that he was no modalist.

  Academic text (2010)

• Basil never implies that his Homoian opponents are themselves modalists, but he does maintain that they have departed from the established faith.

  Academic text (2007)

• The Homoians sought to refute the modalist denial of Christ's preexistence by appealing to theophanies.

  Academic text (2007)

• So by denying ousia, the Homoians have cleared the ground for subordinating the Son to the Father, which then allows them to refute the modalists.

  Academic text (2007)

• What he learned from Basil was an appreciation of how the Father-Son analogy can refute the Homoians while avoiding the modalists.

  Academic text (2007)

• The logic here is forced, but these "modalists" appear to be arguing that as long as we see the ousias of the Father and Son as being undivided (indiscretus), then what we are seeing is a single, identical substance.

  Academic text (2007)

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