Do the Son and the Spirit merely subsist in the being of God (typically thought of as the Father, because he ostensibly is understood to be the “ingenerate” One)? Or instead, do the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit “subsist” in each other, in a subject-IN-being relation? Which then presupposes that the being (ousia) of God just is, always already and has been, and continues to be, the one in the three, the three in the one, as the eternal personal coinherence that just is constitutive of the Monarxia (Godhead). If so then, God just is Self-generative; which eternally presupposes upon the entirety of the triune relation as a generative movement without prioritization of one hypostasis (Father) next to another. Whilst also being able to refer to the Father as the first person, the Son as the second, the Holy Spirit as the third without also collapsing that type of linear thinking into a numerical hierarchy wherein mathematics as physics, rather than the triune filiation, becomes the determinative mode by which God is thought. The idea of causation or aitea is absent in such a scheme, insofar that the pleroma of God’s being is already and primordially understood, in se, as Self-generative within the subject-in-being relations. So, the Godhead itself is thought of as eternally generative rather than causative, per se, and or delimited to a singular source (as if a monad).

And then this down the line has serious impact upon how we conceive of a God-world relation (nostra theologia).

*Inspired by an internalization of Thomas F. Torrance’s thinking over the years.