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Perichoretic Persons: Diagramming Augustine’s Mental Trinity

By: Nathan A. Adams  
Open Access
|Sep 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/perc-2025-0013 | Journal eISSN: 2284-7308 | Journal ISSN: 1224-984X
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