The Suffering of the Impassible God: The Dialectics of Patristic Thought

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.

Author: Paul Gavrilyuk
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 05/20/2004
Pages: 222
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.76h x 5.66w x 0.68d
ISBN: 9780199269822

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

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