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Hypostasis

The word refers to a substance.
The etymology given for the Greek hupostasis: estan = "base, foundation, substance," hupo = "bottom". These are first principles, the fundamental reality, under the metaphysics or theology.

In Neoplatonism

Even before Neoplatonism, Eudorus of Alexandria (founded in Alexandria around 40 BC., or 25 AD. of nopythagorisme) is a founding principle, absolutely transcendent, and then a pair of opposites arising therefrom, the Monad (Limit, Shape) and Dyad (Unlimited, Matter), constituting the second Un

While the Dyad is the archetype of matter, the Monad is that of ideas, which include the Logos, whose action on the matter makes the universe. This succession of the Supreme One, the One compound (of Monad and Dyad) and the Logos as the unit of a multiplicity, appear three gods arranged in a hierarchy, whose first traces are evident in the three first hypotheses of the Parmenides of Plato and II in the letter of the pseudo-Plato (Couloubaritsis L., The Origins of European philosophy, Oxford University Press, p. 632-633).

In the literature Neoplatonic , the hypostasis is a word which means The basis of this philosophy (especially Plotinus ) was a kind of abstract metaphysics, introducing into the Godhead hypostases different. Plotinus admits three hypostasis (Enneads, treated 10: V.1: "Of the three hypostasis who rank Principles")

One: the Absolute, ineffable, which did not participate in the being that is beyond the knowledge
Intellect (from the A )
the Soul (plural concept including: the Soul of the world and the human soul destined to descend into the body).

"We can compare the One to light, the being who follows In Christian theology

In Christian doctrine, the hypostasis is each of the three divine Persons of the Trinity, each considered a separate but substantially Theologians say there is God in three hypostasis and one nature in the Holy Trinity. The quarrels among theologians of the early centuries of the Christian era focus on the content we give to words person (Latin origin), hypostasis (of Greek origin), substance (of Latin origin), and nature. Discussions intersect with those of the intelligence of the person of Christ, one person hypostasis in two natures (divine and human).

In contrast to the official doctrine established by the First Council of Nicaea , there are the heresies following:

Arianism : the Son is not consubstantial with the Father. It is subject, created by the Father. In some variations, it has only human nature.
Monophysitism : Christ does not have two natures, divine and human, united in one person, but one divine nature with human nature absorbed.
Nestorianism : two distinct persons, one human and one divine, coexist in Christ.
Apollinarianism Jesus is only divine nature.
Eutyches = Monophysitism. Eutyches is the founder of the Monophysite.
Monothelitism Jesus has only one desire, of divine nature.