Hypostasis vs Ahriman - What's the difference?
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(medicine, obsolete) A sedimentary deposit, especially in urine.
* 1588 , Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great , V.3:
(theology) The essential person, specifically the single person of Christ (as distinguished from his two ‘natures’, human and divine), or of the three ‘persons’ of the Trinity (comprising a single ‘essence’).
* 1985 , Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked :
* 2000 , Karen Armstrong, The Battle for God , Harper 2004, p. 69:
*2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 218:
*:As a result of this verbal pact, the Trinity consists of three equal hypostaseis'' in one ''ousia : three equal Persons (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) sharing one Essence or Substance (Trinity or Godhead).
(philosophy) The underlying reality or substance of something.
* 1999 , John Gregory (ed.), The Neoplatonists: A Reader , p. 13:
* 2006 , George E. Karamanolis, Plato and Aristotle in agreement? , p. 320:
(genetics) The effect of one gene preventing another from expressing.
* 1997 , Vogul & Motulsky, Human Genetics: Problems and Approaches , p. 141:
Postmortem lividity; livor mortis; suggillation.
hypostasis
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(wikipedia hypostasis)Noun
(hypostases)- Physician: I have viewed your urine, and the hypostasis , / Thick and obscure, doth make the danger great.
- What did the God who hammered the universe together have to do with virtue, redemption, the strange doctrine of hypostasis ?
- As Gregory of Nyssa had explained, the three hypostases'' of Father, Son, and Spirit were not objective facts but simply “terms that we use” to express the way in which the “unnameable and unspeakable” divine nature (''ousia ) adapts itself to the limitations of our human minds.
- The One, Intellect and Soul, then, are the three transcendent sources – or hypostases – of existence.
- as far as we know, Porphyry did not consider the divine intellect to be a hypostasis clearly distinct from the Soul, but he often designated it ‘hypercosmic soul’.
- When penetrance is suppressed altogether, the term ‘epistasis’ (and ‘hypostasis ’ of the suppressed gene) is used.