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HYPOSTASIS , in See also:

THEOLOGY

theology, a See also:

TERM

term frequently occurring in the Trinitarian controversies of the 4th and 5th centuries. According to See also:

IRENAEUS

Irenaeus (i. 5, 4) it was introduced into theology by Gnostic writers, and in earliest ecclesiastical usage appears, as among the See also:

STOICS

Stoics, to have been synonymous with do-la. Thus See also:

Dionysius of See also:

Rome (cf. See also:

Routh, Rel. Sacr. iii. 373) condemns the See also:

ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

attempt to sever the Godhead into three See also:

SEPARATE

separate hypostases and three deities, and the Nicene Creed in the anathemas speaks of iripac itroo'ractetos i oiuLas. Alongside, however, of this persistent interchange there was a See also:

DESIRE

desire to distinguish between the terms, and to confine inroorao-as to the Divine persons. This tendency arose in See also:

Alexandria, and its progress may be seen in comparing the See also:

early and later writings of See also:

ATHANASIUS (293-373)

Athanasius. That writer, in view of the Arian trouble, See also:

FELT (cognate with Ger. Filz, Du. vilt, Swed. and Dan. fill; the root is unknown; the word has given Med. Lat. filtrum, " filter ")

felt that it was better to speak of ovvia as " the See also:

COMMON

common undifferentiated substance of Deity," and vaouracts as " Deity existing in a See also:

PERSONAL

personal mode, the substance of Deity with certain See also:

SPECIAL

special properties " (ovvia See also:

WRIT (O. Eng. gewrit, writ, from writan, to write)

writ TWwv i&coyirwv). At the See also:

COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

council of Alexandria in 362 the phrase rpas inroo-rheas was permitted, and the See also:

WORK

work of this council was supplemented by See also:

BASIL (Russ. VASILY)

Basil, See also:

Gregory of Nazianzus and Gregory of Nyssa in the See also:

formula µia See also:

auk, pas UrOO'TaCIELS Or pia ovvia iv rpiaw vrovravecay. The results arrived at by these Cappadocian fathers were stated in a later See also:

AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age by See also:

John of See also:

DAMASCUS

Damascus (De orlh.

/iid. iii. 6), quoted in R. L. Ottley, The See also:

DOCTRINE

Doctrine of the Incarnation, ii. 257.

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