consubstantial
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"One in being with the Father" becomes "consubstantial with the Father" in the Nicene creed.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Pythagoras taught that God is a number; Xenophanes that it is a sphere, passionless and consubstantial with all things; Parmenides that it is but the confluence of earth and fire.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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That Goth or Vandal, very likely, is in the act of possessing Rome, of making its wonder and glory his own, consubstantial to his soul; Rome is his for the moment.
From Limbo and Other Essays To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua by Lee, Vernon
The content of each is wholly immanent, and there are no transitions with which they are consubstantial and through which their beings may unite.
From Essays in Radical Empiricism by James, William
The Christology that makes Christ Jesus consubstantial with God and with man satisfies man's deep-felt need.
From Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology by Luce, A. A. (Arthur Aston)