✝️ Mutual indwelling 🏙️ Existing together 🤝 Mutual relationship

coinherence

9.9

The three persons of God live in and share life with each other

noun
/ˌkɔɪnˈhɪərəns/

Formal

: coinherecia

Many theologians explore the idea of coinherence to describe the essential unity and interpenetration of the divine beings in the Holy Trinity.

Examples

To reconceive the Spirit as the enfleshment of God's sustaining power in the biosphere is to emphasize the coinherence of the Spirit and the natural world.

Academic text (2000)
It is a great phrase, and I take it to mean (at least approximately) the same reality I have been pointing to here with "perichoresis," and elsewhere with "subject-subject coinherence," and the "I-I relation."

Academic text (1990)
But in making this decision, the Spirit places herself at risk by virtue of her coinherence with a continually degraded biosphere.

Academic text (2000)
In Christian theology, the concept of coinherence illustrates how the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit exist in a profound interrelationship.
The doctrine of coinherence explains the intimate connection among the persons of the Trinity, emphasizing their mutual presence within each other.

Synonyms

compenetration

vscoinherence

Formal

9.9

The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit living in each other

is the alternative technical term commonly used in doctrinal writing

Antonyms

separation

89 2.6

The process of moving apart or staying apart

Surface Forms

coinherence singular

coinherences plural

Morphology

coinherence = inherence (semi-transparent) = co + inherence

Formed by productive prefixation co- + inherence, but the theological sense 'mutual indwelling' is a specialized usage that may not be obvious to general learners.

Etymology

The word coinherence combines co- 'with' and inherence (seen in inherent, from a root meaning 'to be in' or 'stick in'). So coinherence suggests 'being with and in one another', which fits the theological idea of the Trinity where the persons 'dwell in' each other.