A Hypostatic Union

[CyrilSebastian]

In The Secret of Mary, St. Louis De Montfort wrote:
Mary is the great mold of God, made by the Holy Ghost to form a true God-Man by the Hypostatic Union and to form also a man-God by grace.

What is a Hypostatic Union?

 

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hy·po·stat·ic un·ion
noun THEOLOGY

the combination of divine and human natures in the single person of Christ.

 

[GLam8833]

In Jer. 31:22b it reads in the King James Version
of the Bible “A woman will encompass a man”
Isn’t THAT the Hypostatic Union? Mary indeed
encompassed Jesus in her womb!!

 

[porthos11]

In The Secret of Mary, St. Louis De Montfort wrote:
Mary is the great mold of God, made by the Holy Ghost to form a true God-Man by the Hypostatic Union and to form also a man-God by grace.

What is a Hypostatic Union?

The Hypostatic Union is a core mystery of our faith, right up there with the Trinity and the Incarnation.

The dogma of the Hypostatic Union is simply that Christ is one Person (hypostasis), the Second Person of the Trinity, who has two natures (physis), divine and human.

Our understanding and definitions of the Hypostatic Union within the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions comes primarily from the Councils of Ephesis and Chalcedon.

In Jer. 31:22b it reads in the King James Version
of the Bible “A woman will encompass a man”
Isn’t THAT the Hypostatic Union? Mary indeed
encompassed Jesus in her womb!!

No, it is not.

 

[thistle]

In The Secret of Mary, St. Louis De Montfort wrote:
Mary is the great mold of God, made by the Holy Ghost to form a true God-Man by the Hypostatic Union and to form also a man-God by grace.

What is a Hypostatic Union?

Modern Catholic Dictionary:

HYPOSTATIC UNION. The union of the human and divine natures in the one divine person of Christ. At the Council of Chalcedon (A.D. 451) the Church declared that the two natures of Christ are joined “in one person and one hypostasis” (Denzinger 302), where hypostasis means one substance. It was used to answer the Nestorian error of a merely accidental union of the two natures in Christ. The phrase “hypostatic union” was adopted a century later, at the fifth general council at Constantinople (A.D. 533). It is an adequate expression of Catholic doctrine about Jesus Christ that in him are two perfect natures, divine and human; that the divine person takes to himself, includes in his person a human nature; that the incarnate Son of God is an individual, complete substance; and that the union of the two natures is real (against Arius), no mere indwelling of God in a man (against Nestorius), with a rational soul (against Apollinaris), and the divinity remains unchanged (against Eutyches).

 

[GLam8833]

Originally Posted by GLam8833 View Post
In Jer. 31:22b it reads in the King James Version
of the Bible “A woman will encompass a man”
Isn’t THAT the Hypostatic Union? Mary indeed
encompassed Jesus in her womb!!

Thanx, I thot that the Bible had
something to say there about that.