ousia

Examples

• All

• 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)

• (n86) "In God alone," LaCugna continued, "is there full correspondence between personhood and being, between hypostasis and ousia."

  Academic text (2002)

• Nevertheless, Basil does insist on using ousia for the relationship between the Father and the Son.

  Academic text (2007)

• What we have, then, are two ways of refuting modalism, one that uses ousia and one that does not.

  Academic text (2007)

• For those, like Basil, who do use ousia, the problem of modalism is not with the word ousia itself, but with how it is used.

  Academic text (2007)

• Basil insists on using ousia because he believes its use preserves something fundamental to the experience of the Christian religion.

  Academic text (2007)

• In other words, distinctions are made between the Persons (Hypostasis) but not in Essence (Ousia).

  Academic text (2013)

• The most unambiguous statement of this antipathy to ousia language occurs in the Creed of Sirmium 357.

  Academic text (2007)

• The distinction between visible and invisible things in Greek thought includes the opposition of ousia phanera (visible substance) to ousia aphanes (invisible substance).

  Academic text (2004)

• In philosophy, ousia refers to the fundamental nature or essence of a being.

Synonyms

E

essence

vsousia

441 4.8

The central idea or most important part of something

stresses deep metaphysical substance and existence over general core quality

E

essence of

vsousia

122 4.5

The most important part that makes something what it is

is a philosophical account of underlying substance or being rather than just quality

E

eidos

vsousia

• Formal

9.9

A perfect form that real things copy

focuses more on actual essential being and substance than ideal perfect form

Surface Forms

Etymology