Hypostatic union (from the Greek: ὑπόστασιςhypóstasis, "person, subsistence") is a technical term in Christian theology employed in mainstream Christology to describe the union of Christ's humanity and divinity in one hypostasis, or individual personhood.[1]
In the most basic terms, the concept of hypostatic union states that Jesus Christ is both fully God and fully man. He is simultaneously perfectly divine and perfectly human, having two complete and distinct natures at once.
The Athanasian Creed recognized this doctrine and affirmed its importance by stating, "He is God from the essence of the Father, begotten before time; and he is human from the essence of his mother, born in time; completely God, completely human, with a rational soul and human flesh; equal to the Father as regards divinity, less than the Father as regards humanity. Although he is God and human, yet Christ is not two, but one. He is one, however, not by his divinity being turned into flesh, but by God's taking humanity to himself. He is one, certainly not by the blending of his essence, but by the unity of his person. For just as one human is both rational soul and flesh, so too the one Christ is both God and human."
^Lewis Sperry Chafer, Systematic Theology. 1947, reprinted 1993; ISBN 0-8254-2340-6. Chapter XXVI ("God the Son: The Hypostatic Union"), pp. 382–384. (Google Books)
Hypostaticunion (from the Greek: ὑπόστασις hypóstasis, "person, subsistence") is a technical term in Christian theology employed in mainstream Christology...
concept of hypostaticunion to claim Jesus as the Christ. Accordingly, he then proceeds to articulate the meaning of the hypostaticunion. The issue is...
nature of this union is held to defy finite human comprehension, the hypostaticunion is also referred to by the alternative term "mystical union." The Oriental...
inseparable natures, divine and human. It is related to the doctrine of the hypostaticunion. Those who insisted on the "two natures" formula were referred to as...
the Council of Chalcedon accepted Trinitarianism and the concept of hypostaticunion, and rejected Arianism, Modalism, and Ebionism as heresies (which had...
concept of hypostaticunion of the two natures (divine and human) of Jesus, but accepted a more loosely defined concept of the prosopic union. Since their...
of a prosopic union of two persons (divine and human) in Jesus Christ, thus trying to avoid and replace the concept of a hypostaticunion of two natures...
councils. The Council of Chalcedon in 451 issued a formulation of the hypostaticunion of the two natures of Christ, one human and one divine, "united with...
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belief (unmixed, but unseparated divine and human natures, called the hypostaticunion) which is held by the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church...
concept of a loose prosopic union of two natures (divine and human) of Christ, over the concept of their full hypostaticunion. That brought him into conflict...
related within the person of Jesus. Eventually in 451, the concept of a hypostaticunion was stated at the Council of Chalcedon, namely that Jesus is both fully...
Alaric and the Visigoths 412–444 Cyril, bishop of Alexandria, coined Hypostaticunion 418–419 Antipope Eulalius, rival to Pope Boniface I 420 St. Jerome...
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Word of God incarnate" (μία φύσις τοῦ θεοῦ λόγου σεσαρκωμένη) and a hypostaticunion (ἕνωσις καθ' ὑπόστασιν, henōsis kath hypostasin). The distinction of...
attending bishops for the inclusion of the word. Consubstantiality Hypostaticunion In an exegetical comment on Hebrews 1:3, cited in the first book of...
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expression "Mother of God" referred to the Dyophysite doctrine of the hypostaticunion, about the uniqueness with the twofold nature of Jesus Christ God,...
Chalcedon twenty years later and the approval of the doctrine of the hypostaticunion of the two distinct natures of Christ. In the sixteenth century, the...
Christology and elucidated the orthodox definition of Christ's being as the hypostaticunion of two natures, divine and human, united in one person, "with neither...
Eutychian doctrine of monophysitism, described and delineated the "HypostaticUnion" and two natures of Christ, human and divine; adopted the Chalcedonian...
really suffer and die. Eutychians taught that Jesus had only one nature, a union of the divine and human that is not an even compound, since what is divine...
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