Day 35: Formation of Trinitarian Dogma
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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What Does the Trinity Really Mean?
In order to articulate the dogma of the Trinity, the church had to develop its own terminology with the help of certain notions of philosophical origin. The term substance in 252 says that you could use the word essence or nature to designate the divine being in its unity. And so goes on to say the term used by the church to identify the persons in the Trinity and the union of two natures in one divine person in Christ. A person is a hypostasis in doubt with reason. That's going to be the most helpful sentence. Here's why I'll say it again. Hypostasis and nature are related to each other in this manner.
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