hypostatic union
English edit
Etymology edit
Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin ūniō hypostatica, from Byzantine Greek ἕνωσις καθ’ ὑπόστασιν (hénōsis kath’ hupóstasin, literally “union according to the hypostasis”).
Proper noun edit
the hypostatic union
- (theology) In Chalcedonian Christianity, the unity of the two natures of Jesus Christ, divine and human, in a single individual person or hypostasis.