“There Is No Pain, You Are Misreading”: Is God “Comfortably Numb”?
The article below addresses the raises the question of how one should interpret affective or emotive responses predicated of God in Scripture. The classical response to this question is explored using...
View Article“Wanted a Good Man, Never Bargained for You”: Is God “Dazed and Confused”?
Does God have emotions? In the first installment in this series, we focused on the classical view of “impassibility,” which seems to treat emotions ascribed to God primarily as metaphors for divine...
View ArticleGod Is Impassible and Passionate: A Theology of Divine Emotion
Previous installments of this series have summarized the Classical Theist view (Part 1) and Open Theist view of divine emotional capacity (Part 2). Next, we took a closer look at the classical view as...
View ArticleFrom Dust to Deity: Some Critical Reflections on a Critical Book
Confessing the Impassible God is mainly a polemic against a more moderate form of classic theism. In particular, the book argues that God cannot be affected or affect himself in any way whatsoever and,...
View ArticleR. C. Sproul on Divine Impassibility
When we speak of God’s will of disposition, we are quickly confronted with questions raised by the classic doctrine of the impassibility of God. Sometimes the impassibility of God is expressed...
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