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Encyclopedia Britannica



HYPOSTASIS

This article appears in Volume V14, Page 208 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HOR-I25
HYPOSTASIS , in theology, a
term
  frequently occurring in the Trinitarian controversies of the 4th and 5th centuries. According to Irenaeus (i. 5, 4) it was introduced into theology by Gnostic writers, and in earliest ecclesiastical usage appears, as among the Stoics, to have been synonymous with do-la. Thus
Dionysius
  of Rome (cf. Routh, Rel. Sacr. iii. 373) condemns the attempt to sever the Godhead into three
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 desire to distinguish between the terms, and to confine inroorao-as to the Divine persons. This tendency arose in
Alexandria
 , and its progress may be seen in comparing the early and later writings of Athanasius. That writer, in view of the Arian trouble, felt that it was better to speak of ovvia as " the common undifferentiated substance of Deity," and vaouracts as " Deity existing in a personal mode, the substance of Deity with certain
special
  properties " (ovvia writ TWwv i&coyirwv). At the council of
Alexandria
  in 362 the phrase rpas inroo-rheas was permitted, and the
work
  of this council was supplemented by Basil, Gregory of Nazianzus and Gregory of Nyssa in the
formula
  ia auk, pas UrOO'TaCIELS Or pia ovvia iv rpiaw vrovravecay.
The results arrived at by these Cappadocian fathers were stated in a later age by John of Damascus (De orlh. /iid. iii. 6), quoted in R. L. Ottley, The
Doctrine
  of the Incarnation, ii. 257.


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