is the maxim that the economic Trinity is the immanent Trinity and the immanent Trinity is the economic Trinity. Indeed, Rahner, who popularized this identity of the immanent and economic Trinities, insists on the uniqueness of the relationship of each of the persons to us.13 Here Rahner is taking a very different approach from that of classical scholastic theology. According to that view, any divine person could have become incarnate.14 Then all relations of God to us would be “appropriated.” The