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Hypostatic union

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(Theol.) the union of the divine with the human nature of Christ.
- Tillotson.
(Theol.) See under Hypostatic.

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A master both of detail and of the big picture, he found the "key to history" in religion--the fact that, as he believed, human beings are naturally religious--and ultimately in the central dogma of Catholicism, in the unique balance of spiritual and material brought about by the Hypostatic Union.
The Sacred Face of Him Who enjoys, through the hypostatic union, the beatific vision of the Divine Glory accorded to both Angels and Saints in Heaven, lies disfigured on the ground.
While sin cannot be attributed to Christ, not even in his human nature, because his human nature is hypostatically united to his divine person, there is no hypostatic union of the divine and the human in the church.
 
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