analogia entis

In my gift-ontology, analogia entis is the discipline that creatures are truly like God and always more unlike God in mode than like God in measure. It is a structured safeguard that preserves Creator-creature distinction while allowing participation and true predication. In this approach, analogia entis prevents exporting divine relationality univocally into creatures. In God, relationality is proper and unsurpassable, because relations of origin are subsistent and identical with essence. In creatures, relationality is pervasive but founded, participated, and ordered within finite natures. Analogia entis therefore supports the two-level relational claim: in God, origin-fromness; in creatures, provenance and participation, always with ever greater dissimilarity in mode. (Erich Przywara is the best on this subject.)