perichoresis

In my gift-ontology, perichoresis means mutual indwelling or coinherence: the Father is in the Son and the Spirit, the Son is in the Father and the Spirit, and the Spirit is in the Father and the Son, without confusion and without division. It is not a spatial metaphor and not a blending of parts. It is the consequence of indivisible essence and personal distinction by origin. Because the divine life is simple, it is wholly present in each person, and because the persons are not parts, their distinction does not prevent mutual indwelling. Perichoresis therefore strengthens the non-reductive claim that each person is wholly God while preserving that each is irreducibly incommunicable by origin-fromness. It also supports relational language without externalizing communion: the communion is internal to God, not a link between separate beings.