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Old 08-17-2007, 07:28 AM
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Originally Posted by bookslover View Post
This is a very well-written article: succinct and to the point. I would only tweak it at one place - the denial that the Persons of the Trinity are separate and independent. I think it would be better to say that the three Persons are separate and independent, in the sense that they are, in fact, three distinct Persons. (They are not separate and independent, of course, in the sense that they are somehow "detached" from one another, or that they have no relationship with one another.) In other words, perichoresis does not deny that the Persons are actual Persons, with recognizable distinctions one from the other, while affirming that the Persons do interpenetrate one another in the Trinitarian relationship.

Other than that, a fine article, indeed.

Oh, and by the way, the doctrine of perichoresis is in no way related to the late singer Peri Como.
Good point. After reading that section again it would have been better if I did expand a bit on the fact they are distinct persons.

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