perichoresisn.
/ˌpɛrᵻkəˈriːsɪs/, U.S. /ˌpɛrəkəˈrisᵻs/ Theology.
The interrelationship or interpenetration of the Persons of the Trinity; the manner in which the three Persons are regarded as conjoined or interlinked without each one's distinct identity being lost. Also in extended use. Cf. circumincession n.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > the Trinity > [noun] > person of > existence in each other
circumincession1644
circumcession1656
circumsession1667
perichoresis1826
commeation1852
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall xxi. (note) The περιχώρησις, or circumincessio is perhaps the deepest and darkest corner of the whole theological abyss.]
1826 S. T. Coleridge Shorter Wks. & Fragments (1995) ii. 1334 Perichoresis, the primary..Circle-act.
1839 J. Martineau Stud. Christianity (1858) 78 Are we to understand the phrase, three persons, to mean three beings united by ‘perichoresis’?
1895 Expositor Oct. 243 The perichoresis within the Trinity does not touch the Logos so far as He is incarnate.
1930 F. R. Tennant Philos. Theol. II. vi. 171 The notion of perichoresis or circumincessio..may be applied literally by theology.
1955 W. H. Auden Shield of Achilles iii. 79 Join the dance as it moves in perichoresis, turns about the abiding tree.
1993 I. Bradley Celtic Way ii. 44 The intertwining ribbons of the Celtic knot represented in simple and graphic terms the doctrine of perichoresis—the mutual interpenetration of Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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