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The Dated Creed

Conciliar · Creed · 22 May 359 · Latin

The homoian formula the court pressed on both halves of the empire: the Son is 'like the Father', with the word substance dropped from the discussion altogether. Signed at Rimini under pressure and at Seleucia in the same year, it is the creed Jerome had in mind when he wrote that the world groaned and found itself Arian. It is called the Dated Creed because it opens by naming the consuls and the day, which no creed had done before.

What it formulates

  • The Son is like the Father The Son is like the Father according to the scriptures, and the word substance is not to be used of either.

In the disputes

  • The Arian crisis Sixty years of argument about whether the Son is God in the same sense the Father is.

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