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::"Subsists in two natures" may very well imply a particular type of union, however this is a type of union I am wary of. There was a leader of the Assyrian Church of the East named "Babai the Great", who claimed to be a disciple of Theodore of Mopsuestia. Keep in mind that Theodore was condemned by the EOC at the Second Council of Constantinople (553) as being theologically akin to Nestorius. Babai happened to write a book called "The Book of the Union". In it, he proposed a theory of the union of the "Incarnation". However, Babai explicitly denied that the union was hypostatic. Instead, as Theodore had done, he suggested that the union was prosopic: that Christ was one person (''prosopon'') in whom there were two entirely distinct existential realities (''hypostasis''), Man (Jesus) and God (Logos). This form of Nestorian union is thus entirely abstract and can be chalked up to nothing more than intellectual identification. This is precisely the type of "union" that I fear when I hear the phrase "one person who subsists in two natures".
::Anyway, I didn't fully understand the question you asked at the end of your post. Could you try rephrasing it? [[User:Deusveritasest|Deusveritasest]] 03:37, March 9, 2009 (UTC)
:::I dont use the word "hypostasis" to distinguish the divinity and the humanity .. hypostasis refers to a person .. so, when I used that word I meant God the Father (one hypostasis of the Holy Trinity), God the Son (second hypostastis of the Holy Trinity) and the Holy Spirit of God (third hypostasis of the Holy Trinity) - three persons of the same essence.
:::On [[March 25]] the Archangel Gabriel visits our Theotokos and informs her that she is to have a child ... this is where we find out that the second hypostasis of the Holy Trinity is to take on human form and unite himself to humanity ... which steps into
:::that word "subsists in two natures". I am not sure if we have the same reasoning for the same conclusion. Since I am not a theologian and not qualified to discuss this (other than opinion) it is definately better for me to step away from this discussion and pray that a decision by an OrthodoxWiki priest (moderating this forum) can helpt to decide
:::I am happy to take this conversation to PM on Monachos.net if you like.
::: [[User:Ixthis888|Vasiliki]] 06:33, March 9, 2009 (UTC)
