OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 32355

hypostasis

/haɪˈpɒstəsɪs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
hipóstasis
The essential person, specifically the single person of Christ (as distinguished from his two ‘natures’, human and divine), or of the three ‘persons’ of the Trinity (sharing a single ‘essence’).
What did the God who hammered the universe together have to do with virtue, redemption, the strange doctrine of hypostasis?
the hypostases of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
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