We found a match
Your institution may have rights to this item. Sign in to continue.
- Title
Enhypostaton: Being "in Another" or Being "with Another"?--How Chalcedonian Theologians of the Sixth Century defined the Ontological Status of Christ's Human Nature.
- Authors
Krausmüller, Dirk
- Abstract
This article focuses on the term enhypostaton. It makes the case that this term was originally coined in order to express three modes of being: "by itself", "with another" and "in another". The first and third of these modes could not explain the status of the flesh as a nature, which does not have a hypostasis of its own, since they denoted fullblown hypostases and mere accidents. By contrast, the second mode was tailored to the specific case of the human being where soul and body as complete natures come together to form a single hypostasis, which had traditionally served as a paradigm for the incarnation.
- Subjects
CHRISTOLOGY; INCARNATION; ONTOLOGY; HYPOSTATIC union; JOHN, of Damascus, Saint
- Publication
Vigiliae Christianae, 2017, Vol 71, Issue 4, p433
- ISSN
0042-6032
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1163/15700720-12341306