perichoresis

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There are some stock-in-trade terms that are de rigueur (e.g. perichoresis, imago Dei, Heilsgeschichte, Bullsgeschichte), but the really outstanding student should find creative ways to deploy a wide range of foreign polysyllabic words.

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  • Mission if it does start somewhere starts with God and with the perichoresis .. the inner life and overflowing love and relationality .. of the triune God. —  Reclaiming the Mission
  • I was reading Len's post on his blog earlier today and have just finished setting up a Group at Missional Tribe concerning perichoresis. —  Reclaiming the Mission
  • There are some stock-in-trade terms that are de rigueur (e.g. perichoresis, imago Dei, Heilsgeschichte, Bullsgeschichte), but the really outstanding student should find creative ways to deploy a wide range of foreign polysyllabic words. —  Faith and Theology
  • The language of perichoresis, bearing a long pedigree in trinitarian theology, has fallen on hard times of late. —  Inhabitatio Dei
  • Colin Gunton has offered perhaps the most sophisticated use of perichoresis in attempting to construct a trinitarian theology of creation and redemption. —  Inhabitatio Dei
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  1. New Latin, from Greek περιχώρησις, rotation, from περιχωρεῖν, go around, from περί, around, + χωρεῖν, go on, from χῶρος, a place.
 

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