单词 | anhypostatic |
释义 | anhypostaticadj. Theology. Having no independent or personal existence; spec. (of Christ's human nature) having no independent existence separate from his dual human and divine nature. Cf. hypostatic adj. 1, enhypostatic adj., anhypostasia n. ΚΠ 1893 Reformed Q. Rev. Jan. 75 The Divine Logos, it has been said, is the person-forming factor in the being of Christ; while the human nature which He assumed is anhypostatic, or impersonal. 1941 Jrnl. Theol. Stud. 42 123 He sees no absurdity in Cyrilline anhypostatic manhood, with its corollary, the ‘passionless suffering’ of the Word. 1946 E. L. Mascall Christ, Christian & Church 8 According to it [sc. the doctrine of enhypostasia], the humanity of Christ is neither hypostatic (that is, possessing a human person) nor is it anhypostatic (that is, without a person altogether), but it is enhypostatic (that is, it is constituted in the person of the divine Word). 2005 A. Nichols Wisdom from Above xvi. 287 There is an anticipation of the Light of the Transfiguration, but the divine presence is as yet anhypostatic. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < adj.1893 |
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