Hypostatic

The term hypostatic union is much easier than it sounds, but the concept is as profound as anything in the universe-the personal union of the eternal Son of God with our humanity. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This union of the two natures in one Person has been for centuries called a hypostatic union, that is, a union in the ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

"Christian theology refers to Christ as being simultaneously divine and human, a dual nature known as the hypostatic union," writes ❋ Unknown (2009)

One reader of this blog has proposed, by e-mail, the above diagram for the "hypostatic" as distinct from "energetic" side of the triadology I've been trying to develop in aid of harmonizing Western dogma with the faith held in common during the first millennium. ❋ Mike L (2007)

In the past, those questions involved such things as the Trinity, the Blessed Mother, and the hypostatic union. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The integration of spirit and matter though iconography speaks to the hypostatic union of the "Word become flesh." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Not that the holy monks and hermits are smashing statues or anything: today in my theology class, we discussed iconoclasm and the second council of Nicea among other things such as the devotion to the Sacred Heart as and application of the doctrine of the hypostatic union, and Christ possessing the beatific vision. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The difficulties you mention are answered by understanding the basics of the hypostatic union of Christ. ❋ James F. McGrath (2009)

Learned ignorance may thus press the Cusan metaphors and ideas to the limit in dealing with Jesus Christ, yet the hypostatic oneness of the incarnate God will always elude full human understanding. ❋ Miller, Clyde Lee (2009)

Again, the Son is asserted by traditional theology to enjoy a “hypostatic union” with a complete human nature, but the Father does not. ❋ Tuggy, Dale (2009)

When Nichols notes that “Jesus films have difficulty, almost by definition, depicting the hypostatic union, Jesus as the God-man” p.157, see also 167, he fails to note that the Synoptic Gospels likewise fail to depict Jesus in this way, assuming they even intended to. ❋ James F. McGrath (2008)

On the one hand, Scholem seems to prefer symbol over myth when discussing Kabbala, suggesting that Kabbala's reification of the biblical narrative does not yield a mythic drama, including a cadre of mythic figures, but rather a series of symbolic clusters or hypostatic forms that are identified through the prism of the personalities in the Hebrew Bible. ❋ Magid, Shaul (2008)

The body and blood are communicated to us because the body and blood are in the transelemented bread and wine and thus so united to them—like the hypostatic union of Christ—that the divine and creaturely elements in the sacrament cannot be separated. ❋ Unknown (2007)

But the Son must not be said to contribute something to the act of spiration distinct from the Father's contribution; otherwise we would have dual hypostatic procession, which is ruled out ex hypothesi. ❋ Mike L (2007)

Doctrines which stand in opposition to the doctrine of the hypostatic union include: [Docetism], [Arianism], Apollinarianism, [Ebionism], Eutychianism, and Nestorianism. The Church eventually declared all of these doctrines heresies by the end of the Sixth Century A.D. ❋ Theologist (2005)