personal provenance

In my gift-ontology, personal provenance is a system-friendly way of naming relations of origin while highlighting that the distinction is personal, not partitive. Provenance answers the question “who is from whom” as the constitutive marker of personal distinction. It also fits the broader gift grammar. The Father is unoriginated giving, the Son is begotten reception-and-return, and the Spirit is proceeding communion. Personal provenance therefore functions as a unifier of metaphysical and theological registers: it is a metaphysical way of tracking personal distinction without invoking parts, while also being the theological way of preserving the revealed names Father, Son, and Spirit as irreducible whos.