hypostases

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plural of hypostasis
hypostasis
The underlying reality or substance of something

as far as we know, Porphyry did not consider the divine intellect to be a hypostasis clearly distinct from the Soul, but he often designated it ‘hypercosmic soul’.

hypostasis
The essential person, specifically the single person of Christ (as distinguished from his two ‘natures’, human and divine), or of the three ‘persons’ of the Trinity (comprising a single ‘essence’)

As Gregory of Nyssa had explained, the three hypostases of Father, Son, and Spirit were not objective facts but simply “terms that we use” to express the way in which the “unnameable and unspeakable” divine nature (ousia) adapts itself to the limitations of our human minds.

hypostasis
{n} a distinct substance, personality
hypostasis
That which forms the basis of anything; underlying principle; a concept or mental entity conceived or treated as an existing being or thing
hypostasis
a sedimentary deposit, especially in urine
hypostasis
Substance; subsistence; essence; person; personality; used by the early theologians to denote any one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
hypostasis
the accumulation of blood in an organ
hypostasis
Greek for "substance," the term used to describe the unity of the person of Jesus Christ in early Christological debate while accepting his two natures, divine and human (see Christology)
hypostasis
the effect of one gene preventing another from expressing
hypostasis
the suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene
hypostasis
(sing )
hypostasis
{i} base, foundation, underlying principle; essence or personality of any of the three persons in the Godhead (Theology); accumulation of blood in an organ (Medicine); epistasis (Genetics)
hypostasis
That which is deposited at the bottom of a fluid; sediment
hypostasis
The projection of inner states or processes
hypostasis
(metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality
hypostasis
any of the three persons of the Godhead constituting the Trinity especially the person of Christ in which divine and human natures are united
hypostasis
Principle; an element; used by the alchemists in speaking of salt, sulphur, and mercury, which they considered as the three principles of all material bodies
hypostasis
(metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality any of the three persons of the Godhead constituting the Trinity especially the person of Christ in which divine and human natures are united the accumulation of blood in an organ the suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene
hypostasis
Substance, nature, or essence Refers to each Person of the Trinity's subsistence in the Godhead: Three divine Persons sharing one nature of essence as God ( RELATED: mia ousia CONTRAST: Adoptionism, Arianism )
hypostasis
A person, specifically the person of Christ or of another part of the Trinity
hypostasis
Inherent reality or substance
hypostasis
a conceptual entity considered as a real existent; EV: the fallacious assumption that the poles of a participatory experience are self-contained entities that form a mysterious contact on the occasion of an experience
hypostases

    Etymology

    [ hI-'päs-t&-s&s ] (noun.) 1590. Late Latin, substance, sediment, from Greek, support, foundation, substance, sediment, from hyphistasthai to stand under, support, from hypo- + histasthai to be standing; more at STAND.
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