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Perichoresis and Personhood: God, Christ, and Salvation in John of Damascus Charles C. Twombly Pickwick Publications (imprint of Wipf and Stock) www.wipfandstock.com ISBN: 9781620321805; $16; February 2015 4 or 5 Stars Most Christians in Church or parishioners in the pews have never heard of perichoresis . To them it will likely sound like a bad skin disease. But hopefully most pastors, theologians and Church history buffs are at least mildly familiar with the concept, recognizing that it is an extremely important notion with regard to the inner life of the Trinity. Charles C. Twombly, a historical theologian who has taught in several seminaries and has been published in Crux , Christianity Today and First Things , has pulled together a new addition to the Princeton Theological Monograph Series with his 132 page paperback, "Perichoresis and Personhood: God, Christ, and Salvation in John of Damascus." This densely argued work lays out John of Damascus'...

Our God and Father, the giver of all good things, in whom there is no variableness or shadow of turning (James 1.17, we lift up to you our concerns, petitions and supplications. We pray for those who are encumbered and weighed down with hardships, fears, worries and anguish – whether physical, financial, familial, or vocational; ….Remember them in their need, look upon their distresses, and grant them new resolve, peace, strength, encouragement and guidance, and please raise them up to praise and honor you. O Lord, hear our prayer. O Heavenly Father, we beseech you to have mercy upon those who are living in mental darkness…Restore them to strength of mind and cheerfulness of spirit, and give them health and peace in your Son Jesus Christ, and through the health-giving work of your Spirit (modified from The Book of Common Prayer-1928 ). O Lord, hear our prayer. Guide the nations of the earth, including our country, so that all nations may walk in ways that lead toward tr...