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	Hypostatic union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The hypostatic union (also known as the mystical union), in Christian theology, refers to the dual nature of Jesus Christ as being simultaneously God and Man.
		Hypostatic union is a theological term used with reference to the Incarnation to express the revealed truth that in Christ one person subsists in two natures; the divine and the human.
		The two natures are not joined in a moral or accidental union (Nestorius), nor commingled (Eutyches), but nevertheless they are substantially united.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hypostatic_Union (230 words)

	Mersch: The Perfecting of Christ's Human Nature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		It is a perfection that cannot exist or endure except in and through the union, and that expresses and actualizes the union in the nature receiving it, or rather actualizes according to the union, in the union, and through the union the nature which subsists only in the union.
		The union raised the consent to the height at which the union itself was effected, for without such consent the union would in a sense be violent and would not be human in its term.
		The union we are speaking of is a certain relation that is perceived to exist between the divine nature and the human nature, according as they are conjoined in the one person of the Son of God.
	www.innerexplorations.com /chtheomortext/mersch202.htm (8692 words)

	Chapter Uniliteral <i>to</i> Unite of U by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)
		Union differs from connection, as it implies that the bodies are in contact, without an interening body; whereas things may be connected by the invention of a third body, as by a cord or chain.
		A device emblematic of union, used on a national flag or ensign, sometimes, as in the military standard of Great Britain, covering the whole field; sometimes, as in the flag of the United States, and the English naval and marine flag, occupying the upper inner corner, the rest of the flag being called the fly.
		The union of the United States ensign is a cluster of white stars, denoting the union of the States, and, properly, equal in number to that of the States, displayed on a blue field; the fly being composed of alternate stripes of red and white.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/257/1212/24414/2.html (489 words)

	Science in Christian Perspective
		By consideration of the relationship between the hypostatic union of Christian theology and the modern theory of waves and particles, it is possible to handle complementarity without recourse to Bohr or Bohr redefined.
		Once it is shown that the hypostatic union and the wave-particle duality contain a principle of complementarity, the existence of uncertainty relations between the conjugate properties follows necessarily.
		Reconciliation of the hypostatic union and the waveparticle dualism is dependent on the role of human perception.
	www.asa3.org /ASA/PSCF/1987/PSCF6-87Bozack.html (2107 words)

	The Trinity, the Hypostatic Union, and the Communicatio Idiomatum
		The Trinity, the Hypostatic Union, and the Communicatio Idiomatum
		The Hypostatic Union is the teaching that the Word of God became flesh and we call Him Jesus.
		The doctrine of the Hypostatic Union teaches that the divine nature of the Word did not change as it became united, in the one person of Christ, with the human nature.
	www.carm.org /doctrine/3.htm (1921 words)

	Essay XI - Jesus Christ, God and Man
		To speak of a physical union of the two natures in Christ was to lay himself open to the accusation of holding with Apollinaris that the two natures are merged in one, and that the human nature of Christ was not complete.
		The first important consequence of the hypostatic union is what is known as the “communication of properties.” The person is the subject of attribution; hence it is to the person that the nature and all the properties and activities of the nature are attributed.
		The hypostatic union requires that all the operations of the assumed human nature should be attributed to the divine Person of the Word; we should therefore have to say, if Christ could sin, that the Word Incarnate, as man, is able to offend God.
	www.marys-touch.com /Teaching/XI.htm (11921 words)

	Union with Christ
		This ecclesial union, ecclesiastical union, or church union is usually closely aligned with the sacramental union that Christians are said to have with Christ as the church administers the sacraments that are alleged to establish baptismal union and eucharistic union with Christ.
		The historic co-active union with Christ is often explained by the crucifixion union, resurrection union, and ascension union of the Christian’s being united with Christ in co-crucifixion (cf.
		The relational union of the marital union between husband and wife is the analogous pattern for the spiritual union between Christ and Christians.
	www.christinyou.net /pages/unionwithchrist.html (13133 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Incarnation
		The witness of tradition to the fact of the union of the two natures in the one Person of Jesus is clear not only from the symbols or creeds in use before the condemnation of Nestorius, but also from the words of the ante-Nicaean Fathers.
		Before he had denied the hypostatic union of the two natures in Jesus, that union had been taught by the greatest Fathers of their time.
		This union of the two natures in one Person has been for centuries called a hypostatic union, that is, a union in the Divine Hypostasis.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/07706b.htm (11981 words)

	Union
		I afterwards found that the offspring from the union of two plants belonging to the same forms presented a close and curious analogy with hybrids from the union of two distinct species.
		It is but recently that law and government have attempted to crush the trade- union movement, and condemned the exponents of man's right to organize to prison as conspirators.
		These specialites in trade are of frequent occurrence in Paris, and form a pleasant bond of union between the buyer and seller, which gives a particular zest to this sort of commerce, and not unfrequently a particular value to goods.
	www.cooldictionary.com /?word=Union (492 words)

	What is the hypostatic union?
		Answer: The hypostatic union is the term used to described how God the Son, Jesus Christ took on a human nature, yet remained fully God at the same time.
		The doctrine of the hypostatic union is an attempt to explain how Jesus could be both God and man at the same time.
		In summary, the hypostatic union teaches that Jesus is both fully human and fully divine, that there is no mixture or dilution of either nature, and that He is one united Person.
	www.gotquestions.org /hypostatic-union.html (245 words)

	coptichymns.net :: Sharing the Joy of Coptic Hymns and Community Around the World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		But due to its hypostatic union to the Hypostasis of the Second Person of the Trinity, it cannot be said that His humanity was without the Holy Spirit and it cannot be said therefore that He was at some point in time not Christos at all.
		His being Christos can be said to be constituted by two elements: 1) the hypostatic union of the natures and its resultant communicatio idiomatum, 2) the descending and remaining of the Holy Spirit upon the humanity as an iconic representation of the Eternal reposing of the Holy Spirit on the Eternal Son.
		Letter to Thomas the Syncellus opined: it is alien to those who confess a hypostatic union to call the hypostases, that is the natures which in an ineffable manner coalesced in one, from which Emmanuel is, persons, and therefore to think and say that the union is from two persons.
	www.coptichymns.net /index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=5454&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight= (10092 words)

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		The union of body and soul to form a mere human being is in a way similar, but, in an ordinary human being, the person is composed of the two elements in such a way that before the union took place, the person did not exist.
		Now Christ, by virtue of the hypostatic union, is King "by nature," for in the fullest and strictest sense of the word, God Himself is the absolute King of all creatures.
		She is not merely of a wonderfully higher degree of grace than all other creatures, her dignity belongs to the hypostatic order, for it was in her womb that the hypostatic union, in virtue of which her Son is King by nature, was accomplished.
	www.catholicculture.org /docs/most/getchap.cfm?WorkNum=213&ChapNum=9 (2155 words)

	Mediatorial Union by Arthur W. Pink
		This Mediatorial union — denominated the “Hypostatic (personal) union” by theologians — or the conjunction of the Divine and human natures in the God-man Mediator, is based upon that infinitely higher union which we sought to contemplate in the last chapter.
		Therein the hypostatic union differs from the conjunction between the soul and body in us: at death this conjunction is severed in us; but when Christ died, His body and soul were still united to His Divine person as much as ever.
		Fifth, in consequence of the hypostatic union, all the fulness of the Godhead dwells personally in Jesus Christ, and in Him there is such an outshining of the perfections of Jehovah as contain the utmost manifestation of Deity which can be made either unto the angels or unto men.
	www.the-highway.com /union_Pink.html (7394 words)

	Catholic Bible Study - Duration of the Hypostatic Union
		The Hypostatic union means the union of the human and Divine natures in and under the one person of the Word, so that Christ is true God and true Man.
		Besides, death could take place without destroying the hypostatic union, for death did not consist in a separation of the humanity from the Divinity but in a separation of the soul from the body.
		The question whether every single drop of Christ's blood, shed during the Passion remained hypostatically united to the Person of the Word during the triduum, was debated during the Middle Ages with great vehemence and vigor between members of the Franciscan and Dominican Orders.
	www.cathtruth.com /catholicbible/hypost.htm (1694 words)

	Catholic Bible Study Outlines - Matthew 1-4
		Emmanuel or "God with us" starts the New Testament with the doctrine of the Hypostatic union, the mystery of Jesus Christ as true God and true man. This teaching of the Church, that Jesus Christ has two natures, human and Divine, complete and undiminished, is central to the whole teachings of the Gospel.
		The teaching of the Hypostatic Union was used as a test for heretical teachings by the Apostles.
		The Hypostatic Union is why Mary had to be conceived immaculately (without the stain of original sin).
	www.icubed.com /~rpoe/matt1_4.htm (1382 words)

	Quodlibet Online Journal: Calvin's Doctrine of Our Union with Christ - by Seng-Kong Tan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Our union with Christ brings us into relation with God through the Spirit of adoption; the regenerate become, by grace, sons and daughters of the Father because they inexplicably participate in the Son’s eternal relation with the Father, which is by nature.
		Since the hypostatic union is a permanent bond, Christ as “an everlasting intercessor” is united with the Church through an equally permanent bond.
		Union with Christ is, therefore, the soteriological correlate to the Christological notion of the hypostatic union.
	www.quodlibet.net /tan-union.shtml (8596 words)

	Skip Goetzinger. The Mystic Union - Another Source of Comfort. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		So intimate and close is this union that the dogmaticians employ the term perixwandrhsiv, the term used exclusively to describe the intimate closeness of the persons of the Trinity and of the personal (hypostatic) union of the two natures of Christ.
		The mystic union is received at the same time conversion is worked, it is a momentary act.
		Regarding the unique oneness of the hypostatic union of Christ: "The specific form of this union is altogether unique, exceptional, singular, different from, and excelling, all other forms of union" (Quenstedt, Systema II, 121.
	www.wls.wels.net /Publications/Theologia/vol4no1/GoetzingerMysticUnion/GoetzingerMysticUnion.htm (5010 words)

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		The Hypostatic Union of Christ's human nature with the Divine Logos took place at the moment of conception.
		The Hypostatic Union was effected by the Three Divine Persons acting in common.
		By reason of the Hypostatic Union, Christ's human nature, through the Uncreated Holiness of the Word, is substantially Holy.
	www.catholictreasury.info /lord.htm (804 words)

	The hypostatic union according to Thomas Aquinas
		The dissertation is a critical study of Thomas Aquinas's views on the hypostatic union.
		In the second chapter, the concepts of union-in-person and union-in-nature are discussed, and this permits a better understanding of how the concepts of person and nature are meant to be used than was available in the first chapter.
		The third chapter deepens the reflection on the hypostatic union by contrasting this relation with other kinds of relations and especially by explaining what Thomas means by denying that the hypostatic union is accidental.
	escholarship.bc.edu /dissertations/AAI9818614 (214 words)

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		Paul is not looking at the incarnation, kenosis, and hypostatic union for their own sake but as an illustration of humility.
		So the doctrine of the hypostatic union is the doctrine of the personal union of the two natures, the divine and the human, of the Lord Jesus Christ.
		This union is proved by the personal propositions, that is, the passages in which with reference to the incarnate Christ, it is said that God is man and man is God.
	www.bereanbiblechurch.org /transcripts/philippians/2_05-11.htm (4750 words)

	CGR Community - Misconceptions of God's Nature in Modern Evangelicalism? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		I was just thinking earlier today about two common odd myths I always used to hear (and still do) that seem to suggest a misunderstanding of the trinity and the hypostatic union.
		I used to affirm this because I didn't understand the hypostatic union.
		The apostles taught correct doctrine, but they didn't go to the depths of philosophical explanation of such things as 'hypostatic union' as some later commentators.
	www.christianguitar.org /forums/printthread.php?t=82070 (619 words)

	The Christology of St Severus of Antioch - Part 2
		But when a hypostatic union is professed, of which the fulfilment is that from two there is one Christ without confusion, one person, one hypostasis, one nature belonging to the Word incarnate.
		Severus is clear that the union is of two different elements, the pre-existent divinity and the humanity, and Christ is one reality from two real elements, neither of which is lost or confused in the union.
		The union is not a mixture, nor is it simply an external personal union, but it is a composition such that the concrete reality of the incarnate Christ is human and Divine, even while the constituents of that reality remain perfect and different.
	www.orthodoxunity.org /article03.html (4564 words)

	Companion, v. 4, c. 2 THE DREAM OF THE AGES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The union is not a union of nature to nature; human and divine nature are not tied to each other directly but in the personality of the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity.
		Not a simple personal union in which the person is the result of the union of incomplete substances such as the body and soul in man. Here, in this mystery, the union is a personal, substantial one in which the person is not caused by the union but rather pre-exists it.
		The difference between union of this kind and the personal union out of which the human person emerges can be made quite clear by a momentary consideration of the dissolution of this latter union.
	www.op.org /Farrell/companion/comp402.htm (7057 words)

	Two natures of Jesus - Theopedia
		In Christian theology, the two natures of Jesus, also known as the hypostatic union, refers to the dual natures of Jesus Christ: simultaneously God and man. The doctrine of hypostatic union maintains that the one person Jesus Christ has two natures -- divine and human.
		The contrasting view maintains that the one person Jesus Christ can have only one nature (called monophysitism or Eutychianism), although there are variations in understanding that one nature.
		The distinction in fact was brought about gradually in the course of the controversies to which the Christological heresies gave rise, and was definitively established by the Council of Chalcedon (451), which declared that in Christ the two natures, each retaining its own properties, are united in one subsistence and one person...
	www.theopedia.com /Hypostatic_union (419 words)

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