The Suffering of the Impassible God: The Dialectics of Patristic Thought. By Paul Gavrilyuk
This is a relatively short book in which to attempt a reinterpretation of the important concept of divine impassibility in patristic thought—particularly since, as well as charting the course of debate on this topic, the book has the goal of disproving what it calls ‘the Theory of Theology's Fa...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2007
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2007, Volume: 58, Issue: 1, Pages: 276-278 |
| Review of: | The suffering of the impassible God (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2004) (Gould, Graham)
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| Summary: | This is a relatively short book in which to attempt a reinterpretation of the important concept of divine impassibility in patristic thought—particularly since, as well as charting the course of debate on this topic, the book has the goal of disproving what it calls ‘the Theory of Theology's Fall into Hellenistic Philosophy’. By this Gavrilyuk means the popular theory—whose advocacy by twentieth-century scholars he documents in detail in an appendix—that the Fathers’ teaching on divine impassibility was based on philosophical assumptions which inhibited a proper understanding of the God of the Bible. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fll111 |