If creaturely unity is simply a modal expression of divine unity rather than an extrinsic participation in it, the claim conflates ontological dependence with extrinsic derivation.
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A way of being connected to or sharing in something from the outside, without changing what you fundamentally are—like how a painting participates in beauty without being beauty itself.
modal expression(metaphysics)
A way of describing something based on how it exists or could exist—like saying something is 'possible,' 'necessary,' or 'actual' rather than describing what it fundamentally is.
ontological dependence(Metaphysics)
A relation in which the existence or nature of one thing is accounted for by appeal to other things (e.g., a complex object exists because its parts exist; a set exists because its members exist)