Aristotle’s God is not a caring god. His nature is pure actuality (energeia) and excludes all possibility of Him worrying about the creatures of the cosmos, let alone desiring any outcome. However, without Him the potential dynamism of matter would remain untapped. Wrapped in eternal self-contemplation, He summons up by His mere presence the latent powers of nature. God does not go out to the world, but the world cannot help reaching out to Him.45
