Perichoresis
The Trinitarian rhythm of being
Series
DDOT-11 (Words /3)
Authors
A. Bellantone, G. Maspero, V. Limone, A. Gargiulo, A. Bertolini
Afterword by
M. Donà, C. Meazza, P. Coda
Editors
I. Vigorelli and A. Bergamo
Bibliographic paths
edited by G. Bezzi
Publisher
Città Nuova
Year
2026
The volume (DDOT-11) is dedicated to perichoresis, a key concept of the Christian theological tradition used to express the mutual indwelling and co-belonging of the Divine Persons in the Unity of the Trinity. Developed by the Cappadocian Fathers and systematized by John of Damascus in the context of Christological controversies, it designates the mutual interiority of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit in the single divine essence: unity without confusion and distinction without separation, according to an ordered relational dynamism (Trinitarian táxis).
Developed in the Latin tradition of the Middle Ages (Bonaventure of Bagnoregio and Thomas Aquinas) and subsequently reworked by authors such as Cusanus, Bulgakov, Balthasar, and Greshake, perichoresis appears today as an ontological figure of crucial importance, resistant to both oppositional dialectics and process ontology, and therefore capable of combining difference and communion.
The volume explores its theological, ontological, and anthropological scope, relaunching and demonstrating its fruitfulness as a paradigm of relationship and mutual hospitality.
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