ABSTRACT
The author elaborates the constructive proposal and illumines the advantages of the panentheistic vision of God's relation to the world. In his constructive proposal, he want to urge an alternative understanding of the God-world relation that he believe is more promising, especially for the reconstruction of a theology of nature. The insights of process-panentheism hold real promise; it seems to him, for progress in rethinking a Christian theology of nature. He believes this approach provides a way to better maintain both the transcendence of God and the integrity and alterity of nature, while avoiding the separation of God and the world that attends classical theism. One way to distinguish panentheism from classical theism on the one hand and pantheism on the other is in terms of divine attributes or divine perfections. Christian mystics have often been drawn to panentheistic understandings of the God-world relation. Cosmic Christology tradition is a prospect for deepened insights into the God-world relation.
