Meanings of ousia in English

And there is reason in the Athenians calling that estia which participates in ousia.

On and ousia are only ion with an iota broken off; and ouk on is ouk ion.

For example, that which we term ousia is by some called esia, and by others again osia.

Hypostasis (Greek) The exterior expression of a person's inner nature, as compared with ousia (essence) (q.v.)

Instead of beginning their consideration of God with his unknowable ousia, the Cappadocians began with mankind's experience of his Hypostases.

When we assign to them some predicate, they first begin to have a meaning (onomaton sumploke logou ousia).

Of such a science, whether described as 'philosophia prima,' the science of ousia, logic or metaphysics, philosophers have often dreamed.

Neither of these powers is to be confused with the divine essence (ousia), which remains shrouded in impenetrable mystery.

But the Cappadocians insisted that there was an important difference between ousia and hypostasis, which it was essential to bear in mind.

Sometimes Philo speaks of God's essential being (ousia) flanked by the Kingly and Creative powers in a kind of trinity.

Because God's ousia is unfathomable, we can only know him through those manifestations which have been revealed to us as Father, Son and Spirit.

His conception of ousia, or essence, is not an advance upon Plato, but a return to the poor and meagre abstractions of the Eleatic philosophy.

Who would change the colour or curve of a rose-leaf for that ousia akhrômatos, askhêmatistos, anaphês+-thatcolourless, formless, intangible, being-Platoput so high?

Ousia (Greek) Essence, nature.

+Transliteration: ousia akhrômatos, askhêmatistos, anaphês.

And there is reason in the Athenians calling that estia which participates in ousia.