origin fromness

In my gift-ontology, origin-fromness is the concrete “from” that constitutes personal distinction. It is not a spatial relation, not a temporal sequence, and not a causal chain of events. It is personal provenance within the one divine life. Origin-fromness is what is meant by “relation” in the Trinitarian case when relation is said to be subsistent: relation is origin-fromness as personal subsistence. Origin-fromness is also how monarchy is preserved. The Father is origin-fromness without being-from; the Son is origin-fromness as being-from the Father; the Spirit is origin-fromness as proceeding from the Father, with the Son’s involvement stated in a way that does not introduce a second arche. This term is a key anti-reduction device because it makes “relation” concrete and hypostatic rather than schematic.