filioque

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin filioque, from filiō (from the son, ablative) +‎ -que (and).

Pronunciation

Noun

Examples

We believe [] in the Holy Spirit, [] who proceeds from the Father and from the Son (qui ex Patre Filioque procedit)

filioque (uncountable)

  1. (theology) The use of the Latin word filioque (and from the son) in the Western form of the Nicene Creed, to indicate that the Holy Spirit proceeds from both the Father and the Son (as opposed to the Eastern Orthodox Churches which believe the Spirit proceeds from the Father alone).
    • 1989 May, John Garvey, “Eastern Orthodoxy”, in The Atlantic[1], →ISSN:
      But in 867 an assertion of papal authority led to a formal split. Photius, the Patriarch of Constantinople, attacked the filioque, which was beginning to draw papal support, and summoned a council that excommunicated the Pope.
    • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 350:
      Another issue was the promotion of that troublesome addition to the Nicene Creed, the Filioque or double procession in the Trinity of the Spirit from Father and Son, which had taken its cue from Augustine's writing on the Trinity.
    • 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 126:
      The Second Council of Lyon [] only succeeded in confirming and defining a key item of Catholic theology, the filioque, which has barred the way to reconciliation ever since.

Further reading

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin filioque.

Noun

filioque n (uncountable)

  1. filioque

Declension

Declension of filioque
singular only indefinite definite
nominative-accusative filioque filioqueul
genitive-dative filioque filioqueului
vocative filioqueule