Consubstantial Definition

kŏnsəb-stănshəl
adjective
Having the same substance: said esp. of the persons of the Trinity.
Webster's New World
Of the same substance, nature, or essence.
American Heritage

Origin of Consubstantial

  • Middle English consubstancial from Late Latin cōnsubstantiālis Latin com- com- Late Latin substantiālis substantial substantial

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin consubstāntiālis, from con- + substāntia (“substance”).

    From Wiktionary

Consubstantial Sentence Examples

  • It is interesting to note that at the synod of Antioch the use of the word consubstantial to denote the relation of God the Father to the divine Son or Logos was condemned, although it afterwards became at the Council of Nicaea the watchword of the orthodox faction.

  • The Nicaeo-Constantinopolitan creed declared that Christ was consubstantial (ouoobutos) with the Father, and that He had become man (ivavOpunriQas).

  • They held that Christ's body was so inseparably united with the Logos as not to be consubstantial with humanity; its natural attributes were so heightened as to make it sinless and incorruptible.

  • Of a consubstantial Trinity the Cathars naturally had never heard.

  • Within this the individual moves and acts with liberty and responsibility; for each, in will, affection and intellect is consubstantial with the rest.

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