Sentence examples for divine person from inspiring English sources

At the council he and Leontius of Byzantium submitted a conciliatory definition, the noted enhypostasia ("in the person") formula, maintaining that the human nature of Christ, although complete, had no personal identity of its own but achieved personalization only in the divine person of the eternal Logos Wordd).

It reflects the doctrine of Christ's unique divine person.

The orthodox teaching was that the Son is a divine person from all eternity who, in the Incarnation, took human nature completely upon himself.

Lagerfeld is famously mercurial, but several years ago he described his relationship with the house's owners: "There's one divine person in the whole business, and that's Alain Wertheimer.

"The simplistic perception of the state was that there is a leader, chosen by God, a divine person, so they were expecting that the system would work as it was working centuries ago," Mr. Yazdi said.

Many religious believers deny the "supernatural" label, but unless they are willing to disavow such beliefs as in the reality of a divine person, miracles, resurrections or life after death, they are not naturalists.

First, the divine persons share all of the essential characteristics of divinity: omniscience, omnipotence, moral perfection, and so forth.

Early Christian writers modified the concept to explain the Trinity of divine Persons.

There were three divine persons in one divine essence; such was the outcome of the controversies in the 4th century.

Using the terminology of the Aristotelian categories, Boethius described the unity of God in terms of substance and the three divine persons in terms of relation.

Ratified at the Council of Constantinople in 381 but since lost, that statement apparently made official the terminology developed by the supporters of Nicene orthodoxy in the middle of the 4th century: one divine substance, three divine persons (mia ousia, treis hypostaseis).