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There are other errors that don't fit this scheme. They are essentially Trinitarian doctrines: Modalism, Patripassionism, Sabellianism, etc. | There are other errors that don't fit this scheme. They are essentially Trinitarian doctrines: Modalism, Patripassionism, Sabellianism, etc. | ||
== Hypostatic Union == | |||
; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypostatic_union ''Wikipedia,'' "Hypostatic Union."] | |||
: From the Greek: ὑπόστασις, {"[h]upostasis"}, "hypostasis", sediment, foundation, substance, or subsistence | |||
; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypostasis_%28philosophy%29 ''Wikipedia,'' "Hypostasis" in philosophy.] | |||
: Cappadocian Fathers: "Three Hypostases in one Ousia." | |||
[[Category:Christology]] | [[Category:Christology]] | ||
Revision as of 17:39, 4 November 2011
Four Families of Christology
Every Christological doctrine, orthodox or heretical, can be located in one of the four categories created by this logic box. There are only four possible ways of thinking about the divinity and humanity of Jesus.
| Jesus is God.
Jesus is not human.
|
Jesus is God.
Jesus is human.
|
| Jesus is not God.
Jesus is not human.
|
Jesus is not God.
Jesus is human.
|
There are other errors that don't fit this scheme. They are essentially Trinitarian doctrines: Modalism, Patripassionism, Sabellianism, etc.
Hypostatic Union
- From the Greek: ὑπόστασις, {"[h]upostasis"}, "hypostasis", sediment, foundation, substance, or subsistence
- Cappadocian Fathers: "Three Hypostases in one Ousia."