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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Impassibility"”.
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Impassible and impassioned: Reevaluating the doctrines of divine impassibility and divine relationality
… develops the dual affirmation of the mainstream impassibility tradition that God is both impassible, in the sense of never having emotion wrung from him involuntarily, and supremely passionate in the love of his own glory. Following a survey and rejection of a number of hyper-passibilistic views …
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Is The God Of Christian Theology Apathetic?
… Christian theology has adopted the doctrine of impassibility from Plato and Aristotle. According to this doctrine, God does not experience a variety of psychological states such as anger, sorrow, joy, and love. I will argue that the doctrine of impassibility is not only incongruent with the God …
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De Impassibilitate Et Satisfactione: An Examination of the Methodological Implications of Trinitarian Classical Theism for the Doctrine of the Atonement
… In short, this dissertation argues that divine impassibility, which functions as an entailment of the complex of doctrines in Trinitarian classical theism (aseity, simplicity, purus actus, immutability, eternality, and the like), is consistent with God’s making satisfaction for sins. I …
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The Mystery of God in Situations of Suffering: Toward the Universality of Christ and a Reconstruction of African Identity
… view and the contemporary critique of divine impassibility, the African context and the reconstruction of African Christology via inculturation and liberation. The concept of God as passible can make a significant difference in the lives of Christians. This passibility is revealed in the …
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Timelessly Present, Compassionately Impassible: A Defense of Two Classical Divine Attributes
… and theological attack – God’s timelessness and impassibility (inability to suffer). Is the “classical” Lord truly Immanuel, i.e. with us? This general question motivates the study.</p> <p>The opening three chapters analyze aspects of the God-concepts put forth by Augustine, Aquinas, and Calvin. …
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The condemnation of the Christology of the three chapters in its historical and doctrinal context: the assessment and judgement of Emperor Justinian and the Fifth Ecumenical Council (553)
… distinction of the two natures in Christ and the impassibility of God, refused to identify Chalcedon's one hypostasis with that of the eternal Logos. As a reaction to both interpretations of Chalcedon, a number of Cyrillian Chalcedonians or 'neo-Chalcedonians' undertook to show that, although they …
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Glorying in a Thorn-Crowned Head: Divine (Im)passibility, Human Suffering, and the Paschal Ecclesiology of the Mystical Body.
… in which incorporationist ecclesiology, divine impassibility, and Chalcedonian Christology are symbiotically supportive. I shall proceed by means of a liturgical-theological thought experiment, arguing that incorporationist ecclesiology permits seeing an intrinsically paschal liturgy as …