hypostatic union

noun

hypostatic union

noun

Etymology Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin ūniō hypostatica, from Byzantine Greek ἕνωσις καθ’ ὑπόστασιν (hénōsis kath’ hupóstasin, literally “union according to the hypostasis”).

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Lifestyle, Religion, Theology In Chalcedonian Christianity, the unity of the two natures of Jesus Christ, divine and human, in a single individual person or hypostasis.

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