laconicism: “God is love.” In the course of the tradition, the perception was formalized in the doctrine of the Trinity, the claim that God is a family of coinherent yet subsistent relations, each marked by the capacity for self-emptying. This trinitarian dynamic is neither the crushing weight of the one nor the fissaparous plurality of the many, but rather the one in the many and the many in the one, that mutual indwelling which is the characteristic of love. If for Aristotle relationality is accidental,