[B-Greek] hOMOOUSIOS and hOMOIOUSIOS
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sat Mar 27 13:57:19 EST 2004
At 1:31 PM -0500 3/27/04, <bertdehaan at gosympatico.ca> wrote:
>My 8 yr old son had these two words in his church history lesson. He told
>me that hOMOOUSIOS refers to Jesus being God, and hOMOIOUSIOS to Jesus
>being like God.
>I can see how these words would be 'related' to hOMOIWS but I don't know
>what exactly these words mean.
>Can someone help me out and maybe parse these words.
>I don't know if the transliteration is like the b-greek scheme but this is
>all I had.
hOMOIOUSIOS means "of similar nature," hOMOOUSIOS "of identical
nature"--the former. The difference between these two adjectives
constitutes the celebrated "iota of difference" that separated the Eastern
Orthodox from the Western Roman church over Christology. You might look at
a Greek lexicon and note the adjectives formed with hOMO- and those formed
with hOMOIO-.
--
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
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