Is Participatory Ontology a Viable Worldview in the (Post)Modern Context?

The (post)modern world oscillates between radical monism and pluralism. On the one hand, various forms of scientism claim that science alone is sufficient for explaining everything, while reductionist physicalism seeks to reduce all of reality into nothing but matter. But in its effort to unify all things with a single principle, these kinds of monism are destructive to the irreducible richness and complexity of reality. On the other hand, with its extreme emphasis on difference and otherness, postmodern thought has celebrated diversity at the expense of unity. In this paper, I will argue that participatory ontology provides a balanced worldview in which all of reality is unified by an absolutely transcendent source that nonetheless respects difference and diversity.