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Basil of Caesarea is considered one of the architects of the Pro-Nicene Trinitarian doctrine adopted at the Council of Constantinople in 381, which eastern and western Christians to this day profess as “orthodox.” Nowhere is his Trinitarian theology more clearly expressed than in his first major doctrinal work, Against Eunomius, finished in 364 or 365 CE. Responding to Eunomius, whose Apology...

names differ are opposed, then Paul and Peter and all people in general must be different in substance28 from one another. But there is no one so stupid and so inattentive to the common nature that he would be led to say this—after all, the passage: You have been formed from clay, as also have I [Jb 33:6] signals nothing other than that all human beings are of the same substance.29 This being the case, whoever evasively argues that difference in substance follows upon difference in names is a liar.
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