Saving the Appearances by Exceeding Them

"‘The theological perspective of participation actually saves the appearances by exceeding them. It recognizes that materialism and spiritualism are false alternatives, since if there is only finite matter there is not even that, and that for phenomena really to be there they must be more than there… This is to say that all there is only is because it is more than it is.’ (RONT, 4)"

From Radical Orthodoxy: A New Theology, by: John Milbank
quoted in: James K.A. Smith, Introducing Radical Orthodoxy, p. 189