Note first the two dimensions of the passion of Christ: self-giving love which overcomes human enmity and the creation of space in himself to receive estranged humanity. This same giving of the self and receiving of the other are the two essential moments in the internal life of the Trinity; indeed, with the triune God of perfect love they are identical. Both those who espouse a hierarchical view of the Trinitarian relations, following the tradition, and those who join more recent trends and advocate a nonhierarchical view of Trinitarian relations, agree that the life of God is a life of
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