Incarnation demanded that the only way to hold everything together was to let everything also come undone. And with this Paul articulates the truth of all that is. Even so, at that dangerously true place where he reverses the cosmic flow – where two become one, where one becomes three, and where God and the cosmos and everything come together – Paul also plants the prophylactic seed of truth’s unravelling. The Holy Spirit drives all these polyamorous entries across space and time, opening and filling cracks and crevices until they overflow.35 This is not perichoretic dance. It is mutual
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