Charles Williams stated that the master idea of Christianity is coinherence, mutual indwelling. If you want to see this idea concretely displayed, look to the pages of the Book of Kells, that masterpiece of early Christian illumination. Lines, interwoven, designs turning in and around on each other, plays of plants, animals, planets, human beings, angels, and saints. The Germans all it Ineinander (one in the other).
God – the ultimate reality – is a family of coinherent relations, each marked by the capacity for self-emptying. Though Father and Son are really distinct, they are utterly implicated in each other by a mutual act of love.
The impossibly good news is that Jesus and the Father have invited us to enter fully into their divine coinherence. The love between the Father and the Son – which is called the Holy Spirit – can be participated in.
--Bishop Robert Barron,
Gospel Reflection, April 3, 2020
Image source: Illumination from The Book of Kells (Ireland, 9th century), https://www.medievalists.net/2019/03/free-online-course-on-the-book-of-kells-returns/
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