Sementara menulis perihal perichoresis dalam tulisan bapa-bapa gereja, sebuah kutipan dari Maximus the Confessor sangat menarik perhatian. Saya kutipkan di bawah ini:
The soul’s salvation is the consummation of faith. This consummation is the revelation of what has been believed. Revelation is the inexpressible interpenetration (perichoresis) of the believer with (or toward, pros) the object of belief and takes place according to each believer’s degree of faith. Through that interpenetration the believer finally returns to his origin. The return is the fulfillment of desire. Fulfillment of desire is ever-active repose in the object of desire. Enjoyment of this kind entails participation in supranatural divine reality. This participation consists in the participant becoming like that in which he participates. Such likeness involves, so far as this is possible, an identity with respect to energy between the participant and that in which he participates by virtue of the likeness. This identity with respect to energy constitutes the deification of the saints. (Ad Thal. 59, PG 90.608C-609B)
