[B-Greek] Origen hypostasis

James Ernest jdemail at charter.net
Mon Oct 10 23:20:50 EDT 2005


Stephen,

Well, this discussion may be heading off-topic, and these are murky waters
anyway, so I'll sign off with a plug for a couple of articles by Joseph
Lienhard:

"Ousia and Hypostasis: The Cappadocian Settlement and the Theology of 'One
Hypostasis.'" In The Trinity: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Trinity,
ed. S. T. Davis, D. Kendall, and G. O'Collins, 99-121. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1999.

and

"The 'Arian' Controversy: Some Categories Reconsidered." Theological Studies
48 (1987): 415-37. Reprinted in Studies in Early Christianity, IX: Doctrines
of God and Christ in the Early Church, ed. Everett Ferguson, 87-109. New
York and London: Garland, 1993.

The latter reappears revised as a chapter in Lienhard's Contra Marcellum.

James

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>"James Ernest" <jdemail at charter.net> wrote:

>By the end of the fourth
>century, the pro-Nicene mainstream had come to a different understanding of
>the word which made possible the one-ousia, three-hypostases settlement.

Dear Dr Ernest,

It seems inaccurate to say "different understanding", for to my knowledge 
the understanding was always the same.  What changed was the expression -- 
namely, clarification/refinement was added.

Regards,

Stephen Payne
Taylors, SC


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