Hartshorne occasionally used it in class. In any case, his doctrine of God is emphatically pan-en-theist. For him, what is of central importance is that what we experience, God also experiences. Our joy gives God joy. God shares our sorrows. This gives us the motive to increase joy in the world and diminish unnecessary suffering. He called his ethics, contributionism. If what happens simply ceases and disappears forever after the moment of its occurrence, then meaninglessness threatens. If we know that it contributes to the everlasting life of God, all that happens to us and all that we do
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