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

Ray Brown scripsit:

> From the Orthodox, Catholic and mainstream Protestant point
> of view, God is worshipped as three _persons_: God, three in
> one & one in three, without confusion of persons.
To that list may be added the so-called Monophysite
churches, aka the Oriental Orthodox.  The page at
http://www.cnewa.org/ecc-apdxII-1-christol.htm contains a number of
joint declarations of parts of the Catholic Church (up to and including
Popes) and parts of various OO churches up to and including the various
Patriarchs) which may be of interest.

This passage, part of a joint declaration of Catholic and OO theologians,
is "semantic" and so fit to post here:

        For those of us in the Western tradition, to hear of the
        one nature of Christ can be misleading, because it may be
        misunderstood as a denial of his humanity. For those of us in
        the Oriental Orthodox Churches to hear of two natures can be
        misleading because it can be misunderstood as affirming two
        persons in Christ.

> Nope - a 'person' most certainly does not have to be a human.
> And I believe Philip is right in saying that 'people' does not
> necessarily imply humans.
In Lojban, a "person" (prenu) is defined by having a personality.
My cats are prenu to me, for example.  There is an entirely distinct
word "remna" for a member of _Homo sapiens_, with variants "nanmu"
and "ninmu" for male and female human beings (typically, but not
necessarily, adults).

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