"Tell me about the God you don't believe in."

Rebecca Parker identifies with the religious humanist tradition, but hers is a broad and inclusive kind of humanism.  She is not intimidated by those who would define Humanism as a closed system.  Here she writes about how process theology informs her understanding of God.  Process theology is one way Unitarian Universalists do theology and it has had considerable influence on our thinking. Both Process Theology and Transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson share a panentheist understanding of divinity,  rather than a supernatural god.  The supernaturalist posits a dualistic understanding of God and nature as Parker explains.  Theism tends to be supernaturalist in orientation. 

Sometimes we hear the term "natural theism" which is I think an unusual use of term "theism."  Perhaps natural theism means a God that works through and in nature, in which case natural theism has no distinction with panentheism.

Rebecca Parker says in "Blessing the World."

To the atheist who says, "I do not believe in God," the philosopher says, "Tell me about the God you don't believe in.."  The God that process theology doesn't believe in is the old God of dualistic philosophy, whose perfection is imagined as pure spirit, unsullied by the word. untouched by change, without feeling, unmoved, all-controlling and all-knowing.  The God that process theology believes in, as developed, for example in Hartshorne's Divine Relativity, is  a creator among creators, not different inn kind from every other being.  God is not all knowing, because God can not know how each moment of subjective immediacy - each dew drop on Indra's net - will self determine until the moment has crystallized.  God is not all powerful, because each moment is the agent of its own final crystallization.

God is supreme not in knowing everything but in receiving everything, not in controlling everything but in imagining everything.  God is supreme in feeling, supreme in responsiveness.  God is the subjective moment that holds the whole together with the greatest love and the cosmic embrace that tenderly welcomes all.  Not the "unmoved mover" imagined by Aristotle but the being most moved by the world.