The Suffering of the Impassible God

The Suffering of the Impassible God
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 223
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ISBN-10 : 9780191533549
ISBN-13 : 0191533548
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Book Synopsis The Suffering of the Impassible God by : Paul L. Gavrilyuk

Download or read book The Suffering of the Impassible God written by Paul L. Gavrilyuk and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-12 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Suffering of the Impassible God provides a major reconsideration of the issue of divine suffering and divine emotions in the early Church Fathers. Patristic writers are commonly criticized for falling prey to Hellenistic philosophy and uncritically accepting the claim that God cannot suffer or feel emotions. Gavrilyuk shows that this view represents a misreading of evidence. In contrast, he construes the development of patristic thought as a series of dialectical turning points taken to safeguard the paradox of God's voluntary and salvific suffering in the Incarnation.

Divine Impassibility

Divine Impassibility
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Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Total Pages : 202
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ISBN-10 : 9780830866625
ISBN-13 : 0830866620
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Divine Impassibility by : Robert J. Matz

Download or read book Divine Impassibility written by Robert J. Matz and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does God suffer? Does God experience emotions? Does God change? This Spectrum Multiview volume brings together four theologians who make a case for their own view—ranging from a traditional affirmation of divine impassibility (the idea that God does not suffer) to the position that God is necessarily and intimately affected by creation—and then each contributor responds to the others' views.

Divine Impassibility and the Mystery of Human Suffering

Divine Impassibility and the Mystery of Human Suffering
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Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages : 369
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ISBN-10 : 9780802863478
ISBN-13 : 0802863477
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Book Synopsis Divine Impassibility and the Mystery of Human Suffering by : James Keating

Download or read book Divine Impassibility and the Mystery of Human Suffering written by James Keating and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2009-07-14 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "James F. Keating and Thomas Joseph White have gathered here a selection of essays that consider how God's suffering or lack thereof can relate to our redemption from and through human suffering. The contributors - Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox - tread carefully but surely over this thorny ground, defending diverse and often opposing perspectives. Divine Impassibility and the Mystery of Human Suffering is an excellent contribution to the latest stage in this difficult and important theological controversy."--BOOK JACKET.

Does God Suffer?

Does God Suffer?
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Total Pages : 324
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ISBN-10 : IND:30000067296875
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Book Synopsis Does God Suffer? by : Thomas Gerard Weinandy

Download or read book Does God Suffer? written by Thomas Gerard Weinandy and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of this book challenges the contemporary view of God and suffering. Calling upon scripture, and the philosophical and theological tradition of the Fathers and Aquinas, he advocates the incarnational truth that the Son of God actually does experience human living, including suffering.

God Is Impassible and Impassioned

God Is Impassible and Impassioned
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Publisher : Crossway
Total Pages : 336
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ISBN-10 : 9781433532443
ISBN-13 : 1433532441
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Book Synopsis God Is Impassible and Impassioned by : Rob Lister

Download or read book God Is Impassible and Impassioned written by Rob Lister and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern theologians are focused on the doctrine of divine impassibility, exploring the significance of God’s emotional experience and most especially the question of divine suffering. Professor Rob Lister speaks into the issue, outlining the history of the doctrine in the views of influential figures such as Augustine, Aquinas, and Luther, while carefully examining modernity’s growing rejection of impassibility and the subsequent evangelical response. With an eye toward holistic synthesis, this book proposes a theological model based upon fresh insights into the historical, biblical, and theological dimensions of this important doctrine.

The Suffering of God

The Suffering of God
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Publisher : Fortress Press
Total Pages : 228
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ISBN-10 : 1451418841
ISBN-13 : 9781451418842
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

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Download or read book The Suffering of God written by and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 1984-10-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive and thought-provoking study, Terence Fretheim focuses on the theme of divine suffering, an aspect of our understanding of God which both the church and scholarship have neglected. Maintaining that "metaphors matter," Fretheim carefully examines the ruling and anthropomorphic metaphors of the Old Testament and discusses them in the context of current biblical-theological scholarship. His aim is to broaden our understanding of the God of the Old Testament by showing that "suffering belongs to the person and purpose of God".

Divine Impassibility

Divine Impassibility
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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages : 251
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ISBN-10 : 9781597522731
ISBN-13 : 1597522732
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Book Synopsis Divine Impassibility by : Richard E. Creel

Download or read book Divine Impassibility written by Richard E. Creel and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2005-06-21 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Richard Creel sets forth a thesis that offers a third way to approach divine impassibility. Defining impassibility as imperviousness to causal influence from external factors, Creel sketches a path between Aquinas and Hartshorne, by asserting that once this definition is accepted, one must still distinguish the various respects in which God is or is not impassible. Virtually no one would dispute that the divine nature is impassible. God will never cease to be God, no matter what happens in creation. With respect to the divine knowledge and will, however, there are conflicting views. Creel claims that God's will is impassible because God knows everything that can be accomplished by divine power. Yet, unlike Aquinas, Creel believes that God has this knowledge in virtue of a 'plenum' of possibilities eternally coexistent with the divine being. The absolute is not simply God, but rather God plus the 'plenum'. Creel suggests that God's knowledge is passible with respect to the contingent future actions of creatures. God knows these actions, therefore, not in their presentiality from all eternity, as Aquinas would hold, but only as they happen and become actual. God's will, however, remains immediately impassible because the divine will is ordered to possibilities, not actualities. God never has to wait until after we do something in order to decide his response to it. He has eternally decided his response to all that we might do. Ultimately God's feelings remain impassible, no matter what concrete decisions human beings make, because the basic intent of the divine plan for us is always achieved: we exercise our freedom to choose for or against God. God is impassible with respect to the divine nature, divine will, and divine feelings; but God is passible with respect to the divine knowledge of future contingent events.