The Suffering of the Impassible God : The Dialectics of Patristic Thought Paperback / softback
by Paul L. (Assistant Professor of Historical Theology, University of St Thomas, St Paul, Mi Gavrilyuk
Part of the Oxford Early Christian Studies series
Paperback / softback
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The Suffering of the Impassible God provides a major reconsideration of the issue of divine suffering and divine emotions in the early Church Fathers.
Patristic writers are commonly criticized for falling prey to Hellenistic philosophy and uncritically accepting the claim that God cannot suffer or feel emotions.
Gavrilyuk shows that this view represents a misreading of evidence.
In contrast, he 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.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:27/04/2006
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- ISBN:9780199297115
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:27/04/2006
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199297115
