anhypostasia

Meaning

Noun

• The quality of Jesus Christ's humanity, such that it has its existence entirely from the hypostatic union, rather than from any independent human personhood (or hypostasis). The concept does not deny Jesus's personhood, but denies that Jesus's humanity has any personhood apart from the one hypostasis in which his humanity and divinity are united.

Origin

• Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀνῠποστασία, from ἀνῠπόστᾰσῐς + -ιά. is derived from ἀν- (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *n̥- ("prefix meaning ‘not’")) + ὑπόστᾰσῐς (from ῠ̔πο- (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *upo ("below, under")) + στάσις (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂tis ("position, standing"))). The word is analysable as an- + hypostasis.