Can Karl Barth’s Doctrine of Election Offer Improvement to Cyril of Alexandria’s Conception of Divine Impassibility in Jesus Christ’s Suffering?
The twentieth and twenty-first centuries have seen an explosion of interest in the doctrine of divine impassibility, with modern scholars often moving to abandon this doctrine. This article brings one of the fathers of Christology, Cyril of Alexandria, into conversation with the great modern theolog...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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The Evangelical quarterly
Year: 2025, Volume: 96, Issue: 2, Pages: 110-132 |
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Karl Barth
B impassibility B Jürgen Moltmann B Suffering B Nestorius B Election B Cyril of Alexandria |
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| Summary: | The twentieth and twenty-first centuries have seen an explosion of interest in the doctrine of divine impassibility, with modern scholars often moving to abandon this doctrine. This article brings one of the fathers of Christology, Cyril of Alexandria, into conversation with the great modern theologian, Karl Barth, particularly Barth’s doctrine of divine self-election, to argue that a revised version of Cyrilline qualified impassibility is a better way forward than declaring that God is passible without qualification. I will conclude that the qualification of divine impassibility comes in the self-election of the trinitarian person of Jesus Christ to be passible affectively, rather than the Cyrilline understanding of the qualification being within the relation of Christ’s two natures to each other. |
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| ISSN: | 2772-5472 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Evangelical quarterly
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/27725472-09602003 |
