God is the madwoman in the attic.
I'm camped out on the threshold with my journal, camera, and plenty of snacks.

Friday, August 25, 2006

holy vocab

PERICHORESIS (peri - around; choresis - dancing)

"Volf uses the perichoretic nature of the persons in the Trinity to argue that gender roles, though rooted in the differences of 'sexed body,' are as fluid and interchangeable as the different members of the Trinity."

from Niccola Hoggard Creegan & Christine D Pohl, (2005), Living on the Boundaries, p161

& they cite Miroslav Volf (1996) Exclusion & Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness and Reconcilation. pp 181-182 & footnote "Volf defines perichoresis as the idea of divine 'mutual indwelling' that results from 'self-giving.'"

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