If God is immutable, how does the hypostatic union work?
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My answer is based on how Fr. Thomas Joseph White explained the following in two Church Grammar podcast episodes: Tough Christology Questions and Tough Trinity Questions.
Below is a very rudimentary explanation; I highly encourage you to listen to the entirety of both episodes.
- the 3 levels of presence of God in the created realm, that from our point of view is God's omnipresence
- in all created beings (giving it individual nature as well as sustains its existence)
- presence of grace (giving us a share of Trinitarian life and a fellowship with Him as adopted son/daughter through Christ)
- unique incarnation in the historical human nature of God: Jesus Christ
- how the Incarnation is willed out of eternity by all 3 Trinitarian persons in that only the 2nd person obtains a body at a particular time in history as a temporal effect, not as essential change in God's own being (i.e. God's Trinitarian nature does not improve or being more fulfilled with Jesus's bodily experience in history). In other words, Jesus's divine nature while being incarnated does not change, and what we see Jesus was doing is the 3rd mode of presence.
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