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May 4, 2023 · One of the core teachings about the person of Jesus is traditionally called the hypostatic union. This term developed in the early Church, whereby the word “hypostatic” was used officially at the Council of Chalcedon as a way to express the union of Jesus’ two natures.
The union of the human and divine natures in the one divine person of Christ. At the Council of Chalcedon (A.D. 451) the Church declared that the two natures of Christ are...
Two natures of Christ, in Christianity, the doctrine stating that Jesus, through the Incarnation, became fully human and fully divine and that these natures cannot be separated. The idea that “Jesus Christ is true God and true man” is also referred to as the hypostatic union and is a central tenet.
Apr 3, 2023 · Thus, we perceive the enduring nature of the doctrine of the hypostatic union. The hypostatic union expresses and confirms a metaphysical reality, a reality that is absolutely and utterly true, a reality that actually exists, and so it can never be altered or changed.
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The broadest of the three categories is theology. The name "theology" is derived from a couple of Greek words (theos and logos) which combine to mean "the study of God." You could study God in different ways, though. You might study him based on what he has revealed in his word, which is found in sacred Scripture and sacred Tradition. Or you could ...
The term "doctrine" comes from the Latin word doctrina, which simply means "teaching." As used today, though, the word means a bit more than that. Ideas developed by a faithful Catholic theologian may represent Catholic theology but that do not make them Catholic doctrine. For that the intervention of the Magisterium is needed, so a basic definitio...
The Greek word dogmaoriginally meant "opinion," but it has come to mean something much more specific. The current understanding of "dogma" arose in the 1700s (so be warned that earlier documents, such as the writings of the Fathers or Medievals like St. Thomas Aquinas tend to use the term in the broader sense of just a theological opinion). Cardina...
For example, suppose a particular pope or ecumenical council tried to infallibly define a particular teaching but that later a question arose about whether he was really a valid pope or whether it was really an ecumenical council. If the Magisterium did not have the ability to infallibly settle that question then the status of the previous definiti...
The Church is not in the habit of leaping straight to the dogma stage. It tends to define dogmas only rarely, and usually only when there is a controversy about them that needs to be settled. Most of the time it leaves particular matters at the level of non-infallible doctrine. Or it leaves it as a matter freely discussed by theologians but not tau...
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DOCTRINE Any truth taught by the Church as necessary for acceptance by the faithful. The truth may be either formally revealed (as the Real Presence), or a theological...
Hypostatic Union, 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.
