ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an account of theological knowing that enables us to make the following argument: our knowledge of God and our love of the other are radically integrated. Two points were made clear in the light of this discussion. The first is that the controlling feature of any dynamic concept of perichoresis is highlighted by Gunton at the end of the previous quotation, namely a relational ontology. What such a concept achieves is the means by which two entities can be held in a mutual relationship without either the collapse into monism or a separation into dualism. Gunton has discussed three areas in which a perichoretic conceptuality can be seen to be in operation, but one further and final area is what might be called an intra-personal perichoresis. This is particularly appropriate as it will be recalled that the original use of the term by Gregory of Nazianzus was in relation to the perichoresis that existed between Christ's natures.
