personhood without individualism. The semantic history of the term has been well researched.12 The substantive means ‘whirl’ or ‘rotation’; the verb means a movement from one to another, passing round and going round, surrounding, embracing, enclosing. In the New Testament it occurs only twice (Matt. 3:5; 14:35), and in both places it means only ‘the surrounding world’. The first to use the word theologically was probably Gregory of Nazianzus, John of Damascus made it the key concept for his Christology,