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Re: CHAT: Homo Sapiens (was: fiery spirits)

From:Isidora Zamora <isidora@...>
Date:Monday, November 3, 2003, 21:21
At 09:29 PM 11/3/03 +0200, you wrote:
>Isidora Zamora scripsit: > > > In the > > end, it is safer, and more precise, to use the Greek, in my opinion, though > > I'm hardly one to speak, because I absolutely can't remember the Greek for > > "person" at the moment. > >It depends on the particular theology (Eastern or Western). What the West >calls >"person" - prosopon, the East calls hypostasis.
Thank you. I'm Eastern Orthodox, and the word that I was looking for was hypostasis. I just had a really bad mental block. Isidora