Enhypostasia

Enhypostasia is a term derived from the reflection on the christological question.

In the neo-Chalcedonian interpretation of the Council of Chalcedon , Leontius of Jerusalem a. a. the unity of the person of Jesus Christ in such a way that human and divine nature do not each exist individually (as hypostasis or person), but each in relation to a hypostasis of the Trinity , i.e. H. human nature has no existence without divine nature ( hypostasy ).

Although v. a. the Protestant theology of the 19th century (especially Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher , Richard Rothe , Wilhelm Herrmann ) was skeptical or even negative about the term, but it is still being used in a different form in the current dogmatic discussion.

literature

• Christoph Markschies : Article Enhypostasie / Anhypostasie . In: RGG ⁴ 2, 1315f.