English Explanatory Dictionary

hypostatic union

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

hypostatic union the hypostatic union

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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