Participation in God - A Study in Christian Doctrine and Metaphysics

Title page
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Acknowledgements
Works of Thomas Aquinas - Texts, Translations, and Abbreviations
Introduction
I - Participation and Causation
	1 - By and from God: Efficient Causation and God as the Origin and Agent of Creation
	2 - ‘From Him and through Him and to Him Are All Things’: Causes and the Trinity
	3 - Not out of God: God Is Not the Material Cause of Creation
	4 - After God’s Likeness: Formal Causation and Creaturely Characterfulness
	5 - To and for God: Final Causation and God as the Origin and Goal of Creation
II - The Language of Participation and Language as Participation
	6 - Characterising Participation
	7 - Analogy: Participation in Being and Language
III - Participation and the Theological Story
	8 - Participation and Christology
	9 - Participation and Creaturely Action
	10 - Evil as the Failure of Participation
	11 - Redemption I: Restoration and Union
	12 - Redemption II: Justification, Merit, and Transformation
IV - Participation and the Shape of Human Life
	IV - Participation and the Shape of Human Life
	13 - Truth: Knowing and the Lucidity of Things
	14 - Beauty: Spirituality, Love, and Desire
	15 - Goodness: Ethics
Conclusion: Participation, Relation, and Common Life
Bibliography
Index of Names
Subject Index
Index of Biblical References
Index of Works of Aquinas