Due to the sustained popularity of theological retrieval within evangelical publishing, the doctrine of divine participation has gained increased attention in recent years. Works such as Hans Boersma’s “Heavenly Participation” and Andrew Davison’s “Participation in God” have argued that all creaturely being is dependent upon the creatures’s “participation” in divinity. As an extension of this argument, the common qualities of creaturely being, frequently referred to as the transcendentals, must find their source in the fount of true Goodness, Truth, and Beauty – God Himself. These arguments, of course, are not novel but reflect a contemporary application of Thomas Aquinas’s understanding of Boethius, as seen in His work “Exposition On the Hebdomads of Boethius,” and a thorough appreciation of biblical passages such as Acts 17:28, 1 Cor. 4:7, and 2 Pet 1:4. More could be said, however, about the missing link between divine and creaturely being, specifically the Divine Ideas, and how they should function in contemporary evangelical theology. These Divine Ideas, in which God knows how His divine essence may be imitated by His creatures, prevents the doctrine of participation from drifting into pantheism, as creatures can reflect the divine essence without having God as their “formal cause.” As such, a creature’s corresponding Divine Idea serves as the blueprint of a creature’s goodness, truth, and beauty without requiring the mixture of creaturely and divine being. This particular session will argue and celebrate a creature’s corresponding Divine Idea as the source and end-goal of an individual’s goodness. A participatory account of goodness will be explained, defended in light of potential metaphysical and theological counterpoints, and put forth as the proper framework for evangelical anthropology. This presentation will build on my previous book, “Truth Not Served by Human Hands,” in which the Divine Ideas were examined as the source of all creaturely truth.