 If divine immanence rather than transcendence is stressed, even when that includes the influence of other realities, it fails to retain a robust concept of divine transcendence. The postmodern theological tradition offers an alternative understanding of the divine-created relationship that considers God as wholly immanent (see Barber 2014, 41–76). This emphasis upon divine immanence seeks to affirm the presence of God in the world. While some forms of this interest lead to pantheism and the identity of God with the creation, the emphasis upon immanence can acknowledge the need for a source of newness and novelty that is not limited by, or to, the past. The basis for this novelty is internal to created reality rather than an external reality providing novelty. However, the question about the adequacy of the novelty for the present situation must be considered. The transcendence involved in the emphasis upon immanence is a horizontal rather than a vertical transcendence. A horizontal transcendence involves beings of the same ontological status. For example, a person differs from other persons and thus in a sense transcends the limitation of other peoples’ experiences just as they are not limited to the first person’s experiences. Newness and novelty then arise from the unrealized potentials in the original situation. However, this limitation risks making radical novelty impossible because the context always limits the possibilities. In response to an emphasis upon transcendence, the emphasis upon immanence clearly affirms the value and importance of the creation. But at the same time that it affirms the value an importance of creation, the creation is a limited creation incapable of being more than what is already in some way present in the creation.