Re: CHAT: Homo Sapiens (was: fiery spirits)
| From: | Isidora Zamora <isidora@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, November 3, 2003, 21:21 |
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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.
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>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