According to historical usage, the term ‘natural theology’ implied a necessary completion of natural scientific enquiries. It tended to denote a discipline which sought, in ontological terms, apodictically to establish God as the supreme item in a chain of items. In epistemological terms, it effectively presented God as but another objective item within reality which will passively endure our active search to isolate its nature. When, in his profound reflection on languages in The Edge of Words, based on his 2013 Gifford lectures, Rowan Williams describes the work as offering ‘natural theology in a new key’, this self-description would seem to be given more in deference to the Gifford Bequest then to denote any continuity with the natural theological tradition as just described, whose assumptions today seem questionable, and which Williams both articulates and refuses. What we require today is something more like a metaphysics, which, as with the metaphysical dimension of Aquinas’s thought, seeks to describe the fundamental structures of finite reality, and to gesture, with considerable reserve, towards the conditioning ground of these structures, or to “that which everyone gives the name God”. Yet this is what Williams is here offering. In the following essay, I will seek both to describe and tentatively to develop his endeavours.