Jordan Daniel Wood's "The Whole Mystery of Christ" - a tentative precis
Creation as Incarnation in Maximus the Confessor
When the only cosmotheanric tool one has is a participatory hammer, every perichoretic problem one encounters looks like an analogical nail.
The logics of hypostatic identity, generations of difference, reciprocal coinherence & synergies implicate - not only bilateral, but - symmetric beatific intercourse.
Which is to say, in order to be consistent, logically, i.e. faithful, exegetically & patristically, we must conclude that beyond knowing real truths ABOUT the divine necessarily entails sharing the very same enjoyment of self & others WITH the divine.
In drawing distinctions between the logics of essences & hypostases, we mustn't forget that the latter include the former, w/tropoi encoded in logoi. So, we also need notions like idiomata, formal distinctions & haecceities to express how persons, divine & human, are irreducible & indifferent to - but not inseparable from - natures, while otherwise mutually constituted as Thous generated from "I am."
Our identities & freedoms will thus be - not only never obliterated by, but - epectactically grown by every unitive advance (yes, amorous).
Constitutively, not a single cosmotheandric, hypostatic entity, not shadow, vestige, image or likeness, will be excluded from this eschatological destiny.
That would do violence to - not inviolable logoi, but - the divine self-determination of the Logos, Emmanuel, to act as One with us!
This is dense & needs an unpacking beyond the Bird app. It'll get unpacked, in the Fall, as hopefully -not a foil to, but - a full-throated endorsement of Jordan Daniel Wood’s book, from which any coherent notions above were totally lifted & to which, I pray, I've done no harm.
Available for pre-order:
https://undpress.nd.edu/9780268203474/the-whole-mystery-of-christ/