Perichoresis
In
theology,
perichoresis, Latinized and borrowed into English as
circumincession or
circuminsession, is a term used to express the existence of three divine persons in one another, such as the
Holy Trinity of
Christianity.
John of Damascus, in the 8th century, used the Greek term
(
perichoresis, literally: circuition, rotation) to signify this, in his explanation of the text, "I am in my Father, and my Father is in me."
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. 1998.
*"Circumincession".
Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. 2nd edition. 1989.
