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Homoean

Homoean

English

Adjective

Homoean (comparative more Homoean, superlative most Homoean)

  1. (theology) Pertaining to the belief established in the fourth century as a middle ground between the homoousian and homoiousian positions, contending merely that the Father is ‘like’ the Son.
    • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 216:
      Maybe the Homoean formula of Ariminum would have succeeded in uniting the Church if Constantius had not unexpectedly died in his mid-forties in 361.

Noun

Homoean (plural Homoeans)

  1. Someone who subscribes to this belief.