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Divine Impassibility: Four Views of God’s Emotions and Suffering is unavailable, but you can change that!

Does God suffer? Does God experience emotions? Does God change? How should we interpret passages of Scripture that seem to support one view or the other? And where does the incarnation and Christ’s suffering on the cross fit into this? This Spectrum Multiview volume brings together four theologians with decidedly different answers to these questions. The contributors make a case for their own...

articulated this doctrine. In what follows I will be assimilating these notions to a consideration of certain biblical passages that historically have grounded the impassibility doctrine. By underscoring the importance of impassibility as a necessary entailment of God’s pure actuality and total lack of passive potency, I will be locating the significance of the doctrine within a consideration of divine being. Talk about God’s passibility or impassibility is, at bottom, talk about divine actuality.
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