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The Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches have a doctrine called panentheism to describe the relationship between the Uncreated ( God, who is omnipotent, eternal, and constant) and His creation that bears surface similarities with the panentheism described above but maintains a critical distinction.
Most specifically, these Churches teach that God is not the "watchmaker God" of the Western European Enlightenment. Likewise, they teach that God is not the "stage magician God" who only shows up when performing miracles. Instead, the teaching of both these Churches is that God is not merely necessary to have created the universe, but that His active presence is necessary in some way for every bit of creation, from smallest to greatest, to continue to exist at all. That is, God's energies maintain all things and all beings, even if those beings have explicitly rejected Him. His love of creation is such that he will not withdraw His presence, which would be the ultimate form of slaughter, not merely imposing death but ending existence, altogether. By this token, the entirety of creation is sanctified, and thus no part of creation can be considered innately evil except as a result, direct or indirect, of the Fall of man or similar active rebellion against God.
This Orthodox panentheism is distinct from the "hardcore" panentheism described above in that it maintains an ontological gulf between the created and the Uncreated. Creation is not "part of" God, and God is still distinct from creation; however, God is "within" all creation, thus the Orthodox parsing of the word is "pan-entheism" (God indwells in all things) and not "panen-theism" (All things are within/part of God but God is more than the sum of all things).
Process theology and small groups like Creation Spirituality, both an extremely small minority of Christendom, also encorporate a panentheistic worldview.When HasidicHasidic Judaism ( Hebrew: Chasidut ) is a Haredi Jewish religious movement. It is also known as Hasidism and the adjective Chasidic ''Hasidic (or in Yiddish Chasidish meaning "righteous" from the Hebrew root word chesed meaning "loving kindness") is appli Orthodox Jews first developed as a movement and a theology, their theology was essentially panentheistic, even though they themselves did not use this word. Non-Hasidic Orthodox Jews viewed this theology as heretical. However, after the schism between Hasidic and non-Hasidic Orthodox Jews closed in the mid 1800s, panentheism became an accepted way of thinking in Orthodox Jewish theology. While not the mainstream point of view, panentheism has become more popular in the non-Orthodox Jewish denominations like Conservative JudaismConservative Judaism (or Masorti Judaism is a denomination of Judaism characterized by: A positive attitude toward modern culture The belief that traditional rabbinic modes of study, and modern scholarship and critical text study, are both valid ways to l and Reform JudaismReform Judaism (also known as Progressive Judaism while in the U. Reform Judaism and Liberal Judaism together make up Progressive Judaism) is a branch of Judaism characterized by: The belief that an individual's personal autonomy overrides traditional Jew through the writings of rabbis like Abraham Joshua HeschelRabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel ( January 11, 1907, Warsaw, Poland December 23, 1972) was perhaps the most significant Jewish theologian of the 20th century. Heschel was a descendant of preeminent rabbinic families of Europe, both on his father's (Moshe Mord, Arthur Green , Wayne Dosick and Lawrence Kushner .