Sentences with word «hypostasis»

The multi-layered hypostasis of Johnson's works combines a crude confrontational intervention on a personal and inter-personal level in dialogue with aspects of social significance.

They, therefore, rejected the Chalcedonian view that there was only one hypostasis in Jesus.

The Greek word hypostasis translated «substance» here can mean various things, including hope, confidence, or promise, so the first part of the statement might be saying only that faith is a kind of confidence in what we hope for.

The two cubes embody two strong, yet metaphysical, declarations on the deconstruction of human hypostasis leading to the viewer's confrontation with their very own corporeal detritus.

To translate the Greek term hypostasis he introduced the term persona, which translates into English as «person.»

By involving her visitors in a similar situation, Rist wittingly confronts us with the sensual properties of our own hypostasis.

The category of the ultimate, and even the ontological principle, therefore, must be elements in the primordial created fact, in the dyad, the second hypostasis, themselves created.

The vacant hypostasis of all available products in Xu Zhen's installation conveys a sad realization about the voidance and eradication of history and socio - cultural identity.

Puryear's forms and iconography are known for their enigmatic and surreal hypostasis.

These are flaccidly hanging above our heads and create a domain of desolation, ultimately emphasising an undefined and impending threat, simultaneously juxtaposing the fragility of our own physical hypostasis.

KP: Your visual repertoire negotiates the perception of space challenging the human presence and hypostasis in immediate relation to it.

It may be noted here that Judaism's hypostasis of wisdom suggests in the third century B.C. the influence of the Egyptian Isis cult, and in the second, the influence of the comparable Syrian orbit.

Entitled Radiohalo, this solo show, presented at Blain Southern gallery in London, dissects notions of human hypostasis, presence and absence, energy consumption, nature and environment.

In any event, even in the theology of the church the Greek word hypostasis (translated into the Latin as persona and then into the English as «person») had nothing like our modern sense.

However, the book rapidly enters into the early Christological disputes, and for those readers new to the difficulties surrounding significant theological and philosophical terms, such as «person», «nature», «hypostasis», «hypostatic union», and later the «original Nicene Creed» (a nod to the filioque controversy), the content may seem intimidating.

I could write pages about this hypostasis of violence.

At Chalcedon, a city near to Constantinople, a council was held in 451, which drew up what is known as the Chalcedonian Definition, that Christ is to be acknowledged in «two natures... concurring into one person and hypostasis».

According to the doctrine of the Church, the Logos is a hypostasis of its own, distinct from the Father, but coeternal with Him.

«Hypostasis» is meaningless.

A second word used to explain the Trinity is the Greek word «hypostasis.»

«Hypostasis» is more than a mask or mode of appearance; it points to the individual existence of a particular nature.

«Hypostasis» describes the Divine better than «Person.»

Kaplan would have agreed wholeheartedly with M. Scott Peck, who contends that it is fallacious to think of God as a discrete entity that is metaphysically locatable.3 Kaplan calls this the error of reification or hypostasis — of treating a process like a thing.

Coming back to the Incarnation, Evdokimov concludes: «A hypostasis in two natures signifies an image in two modes: visible and invisible.

Much turns on the proper fifth - century translation of Greek words like «physis» and «hypostasis.»

First, it is interesting that in the fourth century, the road to Constantinople in 381 is not paved by blunt appeals to church authority but by extensive wrestling over biblical texts and fine - tooling of extra-biblical language (most notably the term «hypostasis») in an attempt to establish which exegetical claims made sense of Scripture as a whole and which fell short.

For example, at the Council of Nicea (325) the word hypostasis was equated with ousia (essence) and was translated in Latin as substantia (substance)(DS 126), yet in 451 the Council of Chalcedon distinguished hypostasis from physis, the equivalent of ousia, as person from nature, or substance (DS 301 - 02).

Dogmatic Formulations The Catechism also presents the various terms used by the Magisterium of the Church with regard to the Trinity (in particular substance / essence / nature, person / hypostasis and fnally relation) and also the various key points of doctrine that need always to be kept in mind.

For the Fathers and for the theologians of the Middle Ages, it was clear that the Greek word hypostasis was to be rendered in Latin with the term substantia -LSB-...] faith is the «substance» of things hoped for; the proof of things not seen.

Ever since the Reformation there has been a dispute among exegetes over the central word of this phrase, but today a way towards a common interpretation seems to be opening up once more -LSB-...]: «Faith is the hypostasis of things hoped for; the proof of things not seen».

Protestant theology believed that it could rely on the «personalist» relation of the I - Thou kind and develop on this basis a theocentric personalism that would escape the difficulties of a natural theology in the Catholic vein, a natural theology considered as a hypostasis of cosmology.

Moreover — and this is of equal importance — the opponent is defeated by the application of what might be called «the perennial philosophy» because the categories employed are those of nature and hypostasis (person).

With painting as his main artistic expression since the 1960s (M.M.M. in G and A, 1961 — 66 and P.D.Stengel, 1963), Baselitz has reinvented himself through the richness of his palette and the expressionist depiction of his narrative, which has never stopped embracing the human hypostasis.