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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...

by passibilists and impassibilists alike as one of the most important monographs defending divine impassibility in the twentieth century. The frequency with which Creel’s argument turns up in the subsequent literature sufficiently testifies to its reputation. As the title indicates, the book is a work of philosophical theology, and thus it does not attend much to scriptural argument. Creel’s central argument in Divine Impassibility proceeds as follows. First, he surveys a variety of ways in which
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