Schaff on Person and Nature

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From History of the Christian Church: Nicene and Post-Nicene Christianity, vol. 3.


essence/ousia: “denote a genus or a species” (672). Not unum in numero, sed ens unum in multis. All men partake of the same substance. This can be tricky: the divine ousia is a numerical unity (one God), yet human ousia is more of a generic unity in Chalcedon.

“Nature is the totality of powers which constitute a person” (751).

Person: the Ego, the self-conscious, self-asserting, and acting subject” (751).

There is no person without nature, but there can be natures without a person. The human nature of Christ has no independent personality of its own
 
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