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    Challenges→The divine nature is not a fourth Person of the Trinity

    Gregory of Nyssa's social Trinitarian framework treats the divine nature as the common universal genuinely instantiated by three distinct hypostases, analogous to a shared human nature.

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    Key Terms

    Gregory of Nyssa(as a historical philosophical authority)
    A Christian theologian from the 4th century who wrote about religion, philosophy, and how we understand God and the soul.
    Social Trinitarian framework(as the main concept being explained)
    A way of understanding the Christian Trinity (God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) that emphasizes them as three distinct persons who share one divine nature, similar to how three humans share human nature.
    divine nature(Distinguishes the divine nature from the three persons, which are compound substances)
    A reality that is both a property and a simple (non-compound) substance, shared as the matter-constituent in each of the three divine persons
    hypostases(Used to designate the three fundamental levels of reality (One, Intellect, Soul) in Plotinus and Proclus)
    self-subsistent entities

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    Made real or brought into existence as an actual example; like when a concept becomes a real thing you can observe.
    universal(Argument for the generality of Turing machines)
    A computing system capable of simulating any other computing system of the same or lesser power; used here to describe Turing machines as the most general model of computation.

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