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Like anything worth knowing about, Christianity has a set of terms that are basically unique to it – terms like hypostatic union, the union of divine and human natures in the one person of Jesus, or perichoresis, the divine mutual indwelling of members of the Trinity. Christianity of course also has unique understandings of more common terms, such as faith being about trust and reliance not just intellectual assent or believing in the absence of evidence, or propitiation not being an activity where humans appease an angry God but uniquely where God himself appeases his own wrath.
Two important Christian technical terms are anhypostasia and enhypostasia, which are both Christological terms relating specifically to the incarnation. It’s relatively simple to explain what these two terms are refering to: