The Suffering of the Impassible God: The Dialectics of Patristic Thought (Oxford Early Christian Studies)

by PaulL.Gavrilyuk (Author)

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  Paperback
  2006

  $40.57

  Gavrilyuk reconsiders the issue of divine suffering and divine emotions in the early Church Fathers, who are commonly criticized for accepting the argument of Hellenistic philosophy that God cannot suffer or feel emotions. He shows that this view represents a misreading of the evidence.

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  Hardcover
  2004

  $260.46

  'The Suffering of the Impassable God' provides a major reconsideration of the issue of divine suffering and divine emotions in the early Church Fathers. The author construes the development of patristic thought as a series of dialectical turning points taken to safeguard the paradox of God's voluntary and salvific suffering in the Incarnation.