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God Is Impassible and Impassioned: Toward a Theology of Divine Emotion is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

In terms of a positive assessment, the representatives of the qualified-impassibility model are broadly to be commended for laying out several essential parameters for reflecting on the doctrine of divine impassibility in a biblically faithful manner. First, and most importantly, these Fathers were committed to the importance of the Creator/creature distinction. Indeed, it was the Judeo-Christian doctrine of creation that furnished the Fathers with their sense of balance concerning divine transcendence
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