(Habitus or Hexis).— Broadly speaking, a settled or stable disposition in a thing. In its strongest sense, a habit (or habitus) is not devoid of awareness or freedom.
See Beatitude.
(also spelled Hylomorphism).— The doctrine, held by Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, and others, according to which bodies are composed of matter and form relating to each other as potency and act. Som...
A theological term used to express the revealed truth that the one divine person or hypostasis of the Word subsists in two natures, divine and human. As the culmination of controversies spanning more...
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