discerned subsisting in two distinct ‘natures’) was to insist on the personal presence of God in a particular human life while yet differentiating the content of that life at every point from God’s own existence as God. Within this context the term hypostasis (the rendering of which into Latin as persona and subsequently the English ‘person’ is only partially helpful depending on the precise connotations of its particular use) serves as a transcendental category. It is deliberately differentiated