communicable/incommunicable

In my gift-ontology, incommunicable means “not shareable” in the relevant sense. The divine essence is communicable in origin, but the personal fromness is incommunicable. The Father does not communicate being unoriginated. The Son does not communicate being begotten as such. The Spirit does not communicate being proceeding as such. These are personal properties of origin, not transferable contents. Incommunicable therefore protects the doctrine from partitive imagination. What is incommunicable is not a piece of deity; it is the personal provenance itself. This helps keep “gift” talk precise: God’s giving, even ad intra, is not the transfer of a parcel; it is the communication of the whole divine life under the strict non-composition condition.

In contrast, communicable names what can be fully given without division. In the Trinity, what is communicated in generation and procession is the whole undivided divine essence and act. This is not a distribution of shares. It is communication without partition because the divine life is simple and indivisible. Communicable therefore also clarifies how divine giving differs from creaturely giving: in creatures, giving often implies loss or division. In God, communication is fullness without loss. This term must be kept paired with incommunicable: what remains incommunicable is the personal fromness, while what is communicable is the whole divine life.