Perichoresis

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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 περιχώρησις (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

This article incorporates content from the 1728 Cyclopaedia, a publication in the public domain.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. 1998.
"Circumincession". Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. 2nd edition. 1989.

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