hypostasis

Examples

• All

• The third argument held that in Christ there is but one hypostasis, that the operations of Christ pertain only to that hypostasis, and that because the hypostasis is one, the operations must also be numerically one.

  Academic text (1991)

• The instrumentality of human nature to the divine is predicated of the hypostasis or person, which is the active source of union.

  Academic text (1991)

• The operations remain specifically distinct, but united; working in relation with each other, they find their unity in the subsisting hypostasis of the Word.

  Academic text (1991)

• The argument calls on the priority of the hypostasis over the two distinct natures in deciding such questions.

  Academic text (1991)

• It is necessary that what pertains to the hypostasis or person be one and the same thing.

  Academic text (1991)

• But uncreated knowledge is sufficient for the understanding which pertains to the hypostasis or person of Christ.

  Academic text (1991)

• The third difficulty is based on the singularity of the hypostasis in which the two natures exist.

  Academic text (1991)

• Rather, following the teaching of Chalcedon, the two operations are conjoined in the unity of the person of Christ, the divine hypostasis.

  Academic text (1991)

• Thus, Cyril often used "nature" and "hypostasis" synonymously: both terms were used to stress the unity of subject between the preexistent Logos and the incarnate Logos.

  Academic text (1991)

• In Christian theology, each member of the Trinity is considered a distinct hypostasis that contributes to the unity of God.

Synonyms

H

hypostasis of Christ

vshypostasis

• Formal

9.9

The union of God's nature and human nature in the one person of Jesus Christ

is the broader term for any person of the Trinity, not only the union case

Compounds

H

hypostasis of Christ

• Formal

9.9

The union of God's nature and human nature in the one person of Jesus Christ

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology