God Is Impassible and Impassioned: Toward a Theology of Divine Emotion (Biblia.com)

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Modern theologians have 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...

The Patristic doctrine of divine impassibility, in particular, is often put forward as evidence of this deficiency. Given the seriousness of this allegation, it requires an analysis and response. For, if the hypothesis were true, it would drastically undermine the value of Patristic reflection on divine impassibility. In this chapter, then, I will seek to examine the key parameters of Hellenistic philosophy to determine whether or not these features invaded and dominated the Patristic doctrine of

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