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Circumincession
(redirected from Perichoresis)

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Cir`cum`in`ces´sion
n.1.(Theol.) The reciprocal existence in each other of the three persons of the Trinity.
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For example, if our under standing of the community; life of the Trinity; is best captured by a word like perichoresis, implying a divine dance of self-forgetful love that is also to be played out in us--and if C.
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Williams reshapes it into an inaccessible island of granite, located not only beyond the sea but "beyond the sun" (Region 15), also called "the land of the Trinity" and "the land of the perichoresis [i.
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