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At the same time all criticism had to be deprecated, for reflection would at once have pointed out that the divine life in question was either a personification of natural processes and thus really in flux and full of oblivion and imperfection, or else a hypostasis of certain mental functions and ideals, which could not really be conceived apart from the natural human life which they informed and from which they had been violently abstracted.
Man, I never saw onything like her, The hypostasis o' her was jist perfection itsel'. Weel, ae nicht for I wrocht full late, my een war suddenly dazed wi' the glimmer o' something white.
In opposition to this, the council declared that the Lord assumed also a human soul. In this they may have had in view, besides Arianism, the new theory of Apollinarius of Laodicea, which we shall have to explain presently. The third subject before the council was an old misunderstanding about the term hypostasis.
The Reformation and counter-reformation. Protestantism an expression of character. It has the spirit of life and of courage, but the voice of inexperience. Myth should dissolve with the advance of science. But myth is confused with the moral values it expresses. Neo-Platonic revision. It made mythical entities of abstractions. Hypostasis ruins ideals. The Stoic revision.
As to the theological element, Plato, in hypostasising the good, does not hypostasise it as good, but as cause or power, which is, it seems to me, the sole category that justifies hypostasis, and logically involves it; for if things have a ground at all, that ground must exist before them and beyond them.
And so, if a man can find a friend, the hypostasis of all his hopes, the mirror of his ethical ideal, in the Jesus of any, or all, of the Gospels, let him live by faith in that ideal. Who shall or can forbid him? But let him not delude himself with the notion that his faith is evidence of the objective reality of that in which he trusts.
"It is that he was neither man or woman, and a composite nature is incapable of the hypostasis, to obtain which one must be either the one or the other." "Very true, but do you know how to make the poison, and that the thing is impossible without the aid of a salamander?" "That may or may not be! I beseech you to enquire of the oracle whether there be anyone in Paris in possession of this potion."
As to Person and Personality, it is a subtle distinction which I have often met from Trinitarians; who, when they are pressed with the argument that three divine Persons are nothing but three Gods, reply that Person is not the correct translation of the mystical Hypostasis of the Greeks, and Personality is perhaps a truer rendering.
The sum of your answer to this query is, that the texts cited from Isaiah, are spoken of one Person only, the Person of the Father, &c. O most unhappy mistranslation of 'Hypostasis' by Person! The Word is properly the only Person. Ib. p. 3.
First a society must be recreated, embraced by the third Hypostasis, by Love, in order that Jesus may descend, as He has promised, from the clouds and reign over the people formed in His image." "What rôle is the Pope to play?" "Ah, that is one of the most curious points of the Johannite doctrine.
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