I'm a huge Mercurio fan but I couldn't escape the sense that the story felt a little bit rushed and might have benefited from a few calmer moments in which we learned a bit more about the characters involved.
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This tightly paced opener went some way towards addressing that. Surprisingly, for such an action-packed episode, we also learned a great deal about people's backgrounds and motivations, from the information that Ted has an estranged wife to the swift reveal of Georgia's drinking habit and the news that Kate has been having an affair. Regarding that affair, I'm not quite sure where I stand on it: The revelation that this is not the case slightly diminishes that ending for me, although I am interested in how very easy she finds it to compartmentalise her life.
It explains why she's so good at undercover work. If Kate was hiding secrets, Steve was as cocky as ever. I'm fond of Steve.
He's such a laddish idiot; "the big I am" as Hastings rightly had it. It's inevitable that he'll spend much of the next five episodes screwing things up without realising it, but his sheer doggedness and perseverance will probably keep him on the right side.
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As for Hastings, he remains my favourite of the trio. I love Adrian Dunbar's interrogation scenes — he brings a wonderful air of the confessional box to his questioning.
His wife's reference to money problems was interesting in the light of Denton's interview and the suggestion that financial problems makes officers vulnerable to corruption. There have always been hints of a dark side and I'd be intrigued to find out what exactly has gone wrong at home I'm betting on a gambling habit, but that could just be because I'm the daughter of one racing-obsessed Irishman and married to another.
Oh DI Denton, I do find you fascinating.
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Keeley Hawes is very easy to relate to most recently I loved her combination of wry wit and warmth in The Ambassadors and Denton inspired a fair amount of sympathy, even when reaching the end of the line with her next-door neighbour. Is she guilty of setting Jane Akers up, or is she just a very stressed and very unlucky woman? I'm undecided — that hospital call could have been for any number of reasons — although I was interested that she has been wearing the neck brace without necessarily needing it.
It was hard not to feel sympathy for Denton, given the vipers' nest she worked in.
Last season a great deal was made of how one person can set the tone of a station, and I thought it was interesting that Mallick, her immediate commanding officer, conveniently missing when the ambush call came through, clearly condoned the bullying of Denton. Is he anything more than an opportunist covering his tracks? It's worth noting that in Mercurio's world anyone can be a villain and heroes come in the most surprising of places.
The Greek term hypostasis had come into use as a technical term prior to the Christological debates of the late fourth and fifth centuries. In pre-Christian times, Greek philosophy primarily Stoicism used the word. Hypostasis denotes an actual, concrete existence, in contrast to abstract categories such as Platonic ideals. In Kierkegaard's Philosophical Fragments , the dual nature of Christ is explored as a paradox, as "the ultimate paradox", because God, understood as a perfectly good, perfectly wise, perfectly powerful being, fully became a human, in the Christian understanding of the term: As the precise nature of this union is held to defy finite human comprehension, the hypostatic union is also referred to by the alternative term "mystical union".
Apollinaris of Laodicea was the first to use the term hypostasis in trying to understand the Incarnation. In the 5th century, a dispute arose between Cyril of Alexandria and Nestorius in which Nestorius claimed that the term theotokos could not be used to describe Mary, the mother of Christ. Nestorius argued for two distinct natures of Christ, maintaining that God could not be born because the divine nature is unoriginate.
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Therefore, Nestorius believed that the man Jesus of Nazareth was born in union with, but separate from and not strictly identifiable with, the Logos of God. The Council of Ephesus in , under the leadership of Cyril himself as well as the Ephesian bishop Memnon, labeled Nestorius a neo- adoptionist , implying that the man Jesus is divine and the Son of God only by grace and not by nature, and deposed him as a heretic.
We say … that the Word, by having united to himself hypostatically flesh animated by a rational soul, inexplicably and incomprehensibly became man. The preeminent Antiochene theologian Theodore of Mopsuestia , contending against the monophysite heresy of Apollinarism , is believed to have taught that in Christ there are two natures dyophysite , human and divine, and two corresponding hypostases in the sense of "subject", "essence", or "person" which co-existed.
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The Greek and Latin interpretations of Theodore's Christology have come under scrutiny since the recovery of his Catechetical Orations in the Syriac language. It agreed with Theodore that there were two natures in the Incarnation. However, the Council of Chalcedon also insisted that hypostasis be used as it was in the Trinitarian definition: The Oriental Orthodox Churches , having rejected the Chalcedonian Creed, were known as Miaphysites because they maintain the Cyrilian definition that characterized the incarnate Son as having one nature.
The Chalcedonian "in two natures" formula based, at least partially, on Colossians 2: The term miaphysis means one united nature as opposed to one singular nature monophysis. Thus the Miaphysite position maintains that although the nature of Christ is from two, it may only be referred to as one in its incarnate state because the natures always act in unity. In recent times, [ clarification needed ] leaders from the Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox churches have signed joint statements in an attempt to work towards reunification. Likewise the leaders of the Assyrian Church of the East , which venerates Nestorius and Theodore , have in recent times [ clarification needed ] signed a joint agreement with leaders of the Roman Catholic Church acknowledging that their historical differences were over terminology rather than the actual intended meaning.
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