Abstract
This chapter focusses on Peter Martyr Vermigli’s anthropology. It shows that in his commentary on Aristotle’s Ethics and in selected scholia from his Old Testament commentaries, Vermigli sometimes thinks of divine agency as in synergy with human agency, particularly when dealing with themes of divine providence and teleology in creation. This presupposes a participatory metaphysics, insofar as God is present in and through the creature’s actions as the giver of existence. This is not true of other elements of Vermigli’s thought in the same sources, such as when he considers the effects of sin and the Fall. Here, he construes God’s influence as concurring or sometimes competing with human actions, in such a way that Divine and human agency both work on the same ontological plane, contributing different elements to the same effect.
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