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Relationships characterize every possible human “to be here”, and the topic about relationships has been the central theme of philosophy since its origin, qualifying the one-many relation and pointing to every attempt to solve the epistemological, cosmological, ethical and political problems. Within Christianity the problem of relationship is the problem about the relation to a principle, that is God, the creator that puts Himself in an active relationship (of love) to humans. The reference to St. Augustine is crucial: Augustine read the “relationship” in the light of the Christian Revelation giving to this topic unprecedented deepness and tracing its origins in the Soul, taken as Imago Dei, that is the pivot of a relational ontology. The intrinsic dynamism that characterizes such an ontology and such conception of the human being and of the world means a constant tension to the unity in the distinctness, and this is expressed by the notion of Convenientia that names the dynamism of the relationship, along with the tension to a Principle that, at last, is the relationship itself.