Citations:enhypostasia

English citations of enhypostasia

1. (Christianity (Christology)) The state of the human nature of Jesus Christ being entirely dependent on, and not existing independently of, the divine nature of God as a whole (which is the hypostasis of the Holy Trinity comprising God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit), or individual persons of the Trinity such as the Father and the Holy Spirit.

   The plural enhypostasias is currently unattested as only one citation can currently be located. At least two more are required: see WT:ATTEST.

   • 2001, Elmer M. Colyer, quoting Thomas Forsynth Torrance, Theology in Reconstruction, 1965, quoted in The Nature of Doctrine in T. F. Torrance’s Theology, Eugene OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 170:

     Here the doctrine of anhypostasias and enhypostasias applied to the incarnation applies equally to our understanding of revelation.