differing modalities of replete love (to speak like Richard of St. Victor), whose relatedness is his substance.24 And the revelation of this infinite condition of person-as-gift, "before" every "I," is a revelation also of what the only true meaning of person is, even when applied to creatures. Certainly the essence of salvation is that souls and bodies should be drawn into the dynamism of the trinitarian life, as the Spirit integrates them into the coinherence, the sobornost, of the body of Christ, where one becomes a true - that is, selfless - person: a person in communion. The
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