Bulgakov's personalist - Maximian synthesis as interpreted by Gelpi's Maximian, Peircean Triadic Theo-Anthropology
why charges of pantheism, theopanism & determinism don't stick
If we properly apply Gelpi's Maximian, Peircean Triadic Theo-Anthropology to Bulgakov's personalist - Maximian synthesis (w/a few emendations that Joe Bracken's oeuvre can provide), perhaps it becomes more readily apparent why approaches like these don't devolve into pantheism, theopanism or any other type of thoroughgoing theological determinism.
By approaches like these, I have in mind an otherwise diverse group of thinkers like Jordan D. Wood, John Milbank, David B. Hart, Don Gelpi, Joe Bracken and others who employ idioms influenced mostly by Neo-Platonism, German Idealism, Russian Sophiology & even American Pragmatism (e.g. Royce).
To wit:
Gelpi's Maximian, Peircean Triadic Theo-Anthropology
The Gratuity of Creation donates:
I. Analogous Being
essential & participatory
static forms
self-orienting logoi
II. Personal Autonomy - Freedom
notional & perichoretic
emergent & relational identities
self-determining hypostases
The Gratuity of Grace donates:
III. Interpersonal Unity
transmutational & unitive
dynamical forms
self-transcending tropoi
Properly understood, the dynamical, reciprocal, mutual interpenetrations of perichoresis increase personal freedom & interpersonal unity in direct proportion.
Those, who facilely charge so many different perichoretic accounts with pantheism, theopanism or any other type of thoroughgoing theological determinism, mistakenly believe that perichoresis increases personal freedom & interpersonal unity in inverse proportion.
That misunderstanding comes from mistakenly treating discussions about unitive interpersonal dynamics (or how persons manifest via tropoi) as if they refer, instead, to essential participatory realities (or what persons manifest via logoi). That mistake obliterates individual hypostases, dissolving each person into a supra-individual unitary being rather than progressively liberating each for an ever-increasing inter-personal unitive doing.