Now to be fair, a critic might wonder at this point how all of this is anything but logic-chopping, special pleading, and obfuscation. The language that Augustine formulates to hold off the Arian criticism is a gesture in the direction of something quite revolutionary, namely, that to be God is to be a community of relationality. This peculiar set of terms indicates that the ground of existence, the Creator of all things, is a coinherent communio of three persons, each one constituted by its relation