theandric
- adjective
- Specialized
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teándrico
- In Christian theology, the concept of the theandric nature of Christ emphasizes the unity of his divine and human essences.
- theandric operation
Examples
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Understanding Christ's theandric nature helps theologians explain how he could perform miraculous acts while fully embodying humanity.
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The tradition is that Jesus saved us on the Cross in virtue of being a divine person, of his voluntary Passion as a theandric operation.
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The opening argument was that the Word operated and suffered congruently in the humanity and divinity of Christ, in one theandric operation.
Academic text (1991) -
Dionysius attributes to Christ a theandric operation not through some confusion or intermingling of operations or powers of the natures, but because the divine operation uses the human, and the human participates in the power of the divine operation.
Academic text (1991) -
The first argument quotes Pseudo-Dionysius' De divinis nominibus on the Incarnation and interprets it as supporting a single operation called both human and divine, or, in the Greek, a theandric operation.
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He quotes Dionysius for two examples of such a theandric operation, whereby "he did in a superhuman way those things which pertain to a man": being conceived by the Virgin supernaturally and walking on water.
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All "monothelites" held one sole hypostatic energy in Christ, or one theandric activity of Christ—one sole hypostatic divine hegemony.
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The miracle of the Incarnation is often viewed as a theandric event, showcasing both divine intervention and human experience.
How Divine
Surface Forms
Morphology
theandric = theo + andr + ic
Specialized Christological usage built from Greek combining forms and a scholarly suffix; learners unfamiliar with theological compounds will not reliably infer the meaning.
Etymology
Theandric comes from the Greek roots theos 'god' and andros 'man', the same roots you find in theology and android as simple memory helpers. So, in Christian thought a theandric nature means the divine and the human are joined, as when people speak about Christ.