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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...

University. He argues for “strong impassibility,” according to which God does not experience emotional changes. The second view comes from Daniel Castelo (PhD, Duke University), professor of dogmatic and constructive theology at Seattle Pacific University, who asserts a “qualified impassibility,” in which God cannot be affected by an outside force against his own will (implying that God can be affected by that which he wills to be affected by). In contrast to these first two definitions, the next
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