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Is this plausible? And if so, why would Constantine have done such a thing? What, if anything, in his own religious background would point him towards that term? What was Constantine’s theology, and how might he have understood it?
In this episode Kegan Chandler answers these questions using the latest historical research. He argues that we can go beyond the now widely agreed point that homoousios was employed by this council because it was not then a popular or widely used term, and so it did not have any widely accepted meaning. This enabled the majority of bishops to use the term as a stick with which to drive out Arius and his party, who did not like the term, while various bishops chose to interpret it in various ways, depending on their theological proclivities (e.g. Marcellan neo-monarchianism or Eusebian subordinationism). Whatever the various anti-Arian bishops were thinking, here Chandler ventures an educated guess as to what Constantine was thinking… and it has something to do with Egypt!
Links for this episode @ https://trinities.org/blog/podcast-247-kegan-chandler-on-the-term-homoousios/
The live-streamed version of this lecture.
The God of Jesus in Light of Christian Dogma
his blog Buried Deep
The God of Jesus
@Academia.edu
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This week’s thinking music is “Again, Once Again” by fluffy.
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In 325 AD, the Council of Nicaea defined Jesus as 'Homoousios', of same substance with God - Kegan Chandler
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At Council of Nicaea 325 AD, who decided Jesus was Homoousios ('same substance') as God? - Kegan Chandler
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Emperor Constantine merged Pagan and Christian values to define Christianity - Kegan Chandler
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Council of Antioch 268 AD rejected the term Homoousios ('same substance') - Kegan Chandler
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Homoousios ('same substance') first appeared in Poimandres, a 1st century Egyptian Pagan text - Kegan Chandler
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Early Christians rejected Homoousios ('same substance'). Why? - Kegan Chandler
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Why did Early Christians accept Jesus and God as Homoousios ('same substance')? - Kegan Chandler
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Homoousios ('same substance') was a confusing and theologically Ambiguous word used by Athanasius, Eusebius and Marcellus - Kegan Chandler
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Constantine inserted Homoousios ('same substance') into Christian doctrine, according to Eusebius - Kegan Chandler
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At Council of Nicaea, Constantine quoted Plato, a Pagan philosopher to justify Homoousios ('same substance') - Kegan Chandler
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Lucius Lactantius, advisor to Constantine, harmonized Christianity with Paganism - Kegan Chandler
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Homoousios ('same substance') can be traced back to Pre-Christian Egypt - Kegan Chandler
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What did Homoousios ('same substance') mean to Constantine? - Kegan Chandler
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Opposition to Homoousios ('same substance') was silenced at Council of Nicaea? - Kegan Chandler
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Christianity is primarily based on Gospel of John - Kegan Chandler
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John's Gospel is different from Mark, Matthew and Luke due to emerging Gnostic ideas - Kegan Chandler
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2nd century Christians questioned John's Gospel due to Gnosticism - Kegan Chandler
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Hermes Trismegistus, an Olympian Greek god, was the 'Logos' or God's divine word manifest to Man - Kegan Chandler
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Gnostic 'secret knowledge' of God features in Pagan, Christian & Spiritual teachings - Kegan Chandler
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Both Gnostic and Trinitarian Christians believe in Jesus' dual nature - Kegan Chandler
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John's Gospel is anti-Gnostic. Jesus is made more human-like - Kegan Chandler
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Simon of Cyrene, bearer of Jesus' Cross, is absent from John's Gospel - Kegan Chandler
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John's Gospel wrote a 'multi-level' history to counter Gnostic views on Jesus - Kegan Chandler
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Irenaeus (130-202 AD): John's Gospel written to refute Gnosticism - Kegan Chandler
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Hermeticism, a pagan form of Gnosticism, believed God is within us all - Kegan Chandler
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Poemandres (Heremetic, Pagan text, c. 50 AD) bears striking textual similarities to John's Gospel - Kegan Chandler
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Evidence that John's Gospel used Poemandres (Hermetic, Pagan, c. 50 AD) as a Source - Kegan Chandler
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Did John's Gospel 'accidentally' copy Hermetism from Poemandres? - Kegan Chandler
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John's Gospel parallels Gnostic-Pagan-Hermetic ideas (dualism, oneness/son of God, trinity, Father etc.) to promote his Jewish-Christianity - Kegan Chandler
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John's Gospel depicts 'the right' Jesus; against Judaism, Gnostic-Christianity and Hermetism - Kegan Chandler
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