The Suffering of the Impassible God

TRAMA

This book 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.

NOTE EDITORE

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.

SOMMARIO

1 - Testing the fall into Hellenistic philosophy theory2 - The function of divine impassibility in patristic theology3 - The reality of Christ's suffering defended in the struggle with Docetism4 - Patripassian controversy: the Son, not God the Father, is the subject of the Incarnation5 - The orthodox response to Arianism: involvement in suffering does not diminish Christ's divinity6 - The case of Cyril against Nestorius: a theology of divine self-emptying

AUTORE

Paul L. Gavrilyuk is Assistant Professor of Historical Theology in the University of St Thomas, St Paul, Minnesota.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780199297115
• Collana: Oxford Early Christian Studies
• Dimensioni: 215 x 13.0 x 140 mm Ø 302 gr
• Formato: Brossura
• Pagine Arabe: 224