The soteriological importance of the hypostatic union
The soteriological importance of the hypostatic union

Summary/Abstract: This article deals with the dogma of the union of the two natures, divine and human, in Christ’s pre-existing Hypostasis and the redeeming importance of this union for man’s deification as full realization in Christ. Christ, the preexistingHypostasis, becomes by oikonomia a hypostasis uniting in Himself -in an undivided and unseparated, unmixed and unchanged way - two different principles, two natures united in a special way, we could even say a completely special way. This new way of union and living makes the fallen human nature be lifted by the oikonomia of love to the state of partner of the Father, oikonomia realized by and in Christ’s community of hypostasis.Christ is the One Who gives everything back to the human nature in order for it to be accomplished, but, moreover, He realizes in Himself the accomplishment of all the potentials and virtualities that used to constitute the human nature and which, because of sin and implicitly the deepening in it(the fall), decreased in intensity so that they no longer had the power to generate the good existence that comes and is directed through the creation towards God. Christ’s embodiment - as a completely special way of assuming the human nature - generates, on the one hand, the re-establishment of the fallen nature and, on the other hand, by the assuming, by Christ, of all the things pertaining to the nature, except for sin, and His descent on their level of existence and power of development, our deification is mysteriously realized, as well. It is by the embodiment that Christ “becomes a man for men but also of men”, born as a man of the Virgin Mary and of the Holy Spirit,“for us, men, and our salvation”.

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