anhypostasia

Etymology


Borrowed from, from +. ἀνῠπόστᾰσῐς is derived from (ultimately from ) +  (from  (ultimately from ) +  (ultimately from )). The word is analysable as.

Noun

 * 1)  The quality of Jesus Christ's humanity, such that it has its existence entirely from the hypostatic union, rather than from any independent human personhood (or hypostasis). The concept does not deny Jesus's personhood, but denies that Jesus's humanity has any personhood apart from the one hypostasis in which his humanity and divinity are united.