Reading your post, and the various responses to it, have reinforced my observation that Chrtistian thinkers tend to be surprisingly unfamiliar with the religion from which Christianity emerged. Jewish mystics, particularly in the Chasidic movement, had--and still have--a very complex theology grounded in panentheism. So it precedes either Whitehead or Robinson. How far it extends back in time is a matter of debate.

One other comment regarding your interesting critique of Goff. If there is one principle that runs like a scarlet thread through the various schools of Jewish thought, it is perhaps best expressed in Abraham's plaintive question, "Shall not the Judge of all the earth do justly?"

The famous equation, "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth," which some Christians quote as evidence that the God of the Hebrew Bible is a harsh and rigid taskmaster, is a statement that clearly affirms that punishment must be proportional to the offense--and never 'more than.' This is not just a one-off verse ... that principle may not be the only element in the Tanach's approach to justice, but it is an element that appears repeatedly.

It seem that Goff and other Christians might start there in their challenge to the notion of a literal eternity in hell. Would that not translate into countless years of punishment for each and every second of sinful conduct--for every offense that one committed in a lifetime that is nothing more than a blip in the face of eternity? Where is the proportionality, the justice, in that scheme?