 A variety of terms have been used to describe a mutual relation between God and the universe. Daniel Dombrowski (1996, 32) described God’s relation to the universe as an organic relation in that God and the universe influence each other. Niels Gregersen (2004, 20), cited by Stenmark (2019, 29), uses the phrase “bilateral relations”. Stenmark calls God’s relation to the world an “ontological symmetrical” relation in comparison to classical theism’s “asymmetrical” ontological dependence. The basic nature of a mutual relation between God and the universe involves an influence of each member of the relationship on the other member and assumes some degree of independence or freedom of each member.