ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the intersection of Christian theism, a neo-Aristotelian gloss on metaphysical grounding, and creaturely participation in God. At its most basic level, a Christian participatory ontology pertains to the notion that all creaturely being is received being; every aspect of non-God reality finds its ultimate source, foundation, and proper end in the plenitudinous life of the Triune God. A fully developed Christian doctrine of creaturely participation will identify and develop the various ways in which the Triune God is the distinctively (efficient) causal source of all creaturely reality, as well as participatory themes throughout the wider theological and philosophical landscape with respect to value (natural law, virtue, evil, beauty), theological anthropology (imago dei), Christology, and soteriology (atonement, consummation, salvific and sanctifying grace, etc.), to name a few.
