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."

References

• Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. 1998.
• "Circumincession". Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. 2nd edition. 1989.

Theology | Christian theology