perichoresis

A hermeneutic of the one-in-three principle slowly approached the synthesis understood today as perichoresis.

The relationship of the Triune God is intensified by the relationship of perichoresis.

John of Damascus, who was influential in developing the doctrine of the perichoresis, described it as a "cleaving together."

Moltmann stresses the perichoresis of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

The idea of perichoresis of the persons of the trinity has been cited to provide at least part of this greater unity.

Perichoresis from Greek ("going around", "envelopment") is a term used by some theologians to describe the relationship among the members of the Trinity.

Perichoresis website of Dr. C. Baxter Kruger "Sharing the Good News of our Adoption in Christ"

This relationship aims at love and solidarity, and corresponds to the perichoresis of the Father and Son, and through the Son the children of God, or humanity.

Lane G. Tipton, "The Function of Perichoresis and the Divine Incomprehensibility," Westminster Theological Journal, Fall 2002.

According to this doctrine, God is not divided in the sense that each person has a third of the whole; rather, each person is considered to be fully God (see Perichoresis).

The human soul transcends his mortal limitations by faith "in things hoped for, on evidence of thing not seen" (Hebrews 11:1) a salvation of conformity in perichoresis leads to eternal life.

It dawns on Albert and Lord Seal that these strange people are in fact the Holy Trinity - the perichoresis of God, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

This is so, according to the theory of perichoresis, because the persons of the Trinity "reciprocally contain one another, so that one permanently envelopes and is permanently enveloped by, the other whom he yet envelopes".

It is the vocation of all people to express their creaturely sociality in ways that better express the divine sociality - the perichoresis of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit - in the church.

Perichoresis: This term refers to the mutual indwelling in love of the divine persons, perhaps reflected most strikingly in Jesus' statement 'I in the Father and the Father in me,' or again, 'A'll that belongs to the Father is mine.

The Catholic Church holds that there is one eternal God, who exists as a perichoresis (mutual indwelling) of three Hypostases, or Persons: God the Father; God the Son; and God the Holy Spirit, which together are called the "Holy Trinity".