Abstract
This essay explores the necessity of and limits of metaphysical thought, as well as theology’s necessary interaction with metaphysics. Metaphysics’ origin came through opposition to mythology, with which metaphysics is also intricately connected. Christian theology has a critical, but necessary, relationship with both. Metaphysics provides intellectual unity in the face of the diversity of human experience, which couples nicely with the mythological pantheon of gods. Aristotle’s Metaphysics equated the divine with the unifying foundation of all things (ἀρχή). Metaphysics brings order to the world’s chaos with a divinity that is not a subject, but a (neuter) predicate. Metaphysical questioning is necessary to human self-preservation but becomes problematic if divorced from other aspects of lived existence. Scripture itself raises metaphysical issues with its claims of God’s oneness.
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